The best movies 1896 Pagina 2

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

A stationary camera looks west across Niagara Falls from the United States' side (the Niagara River rushes toward the falls from right to left)....

An abridged version of the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, who wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where...

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Note: This is a LOST film; the existing...

Two boxers from the French city of Joinville have a boxing contest in front of the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

The Tsar visits the Russian embassy

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Teasing tigers with meat.

Félicien Trewey swirls a large white ribbon around him.

Sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna and their suite slowly walk down a staircase, preceded by a company of cuirassiers.