1896 Movies

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged...

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

An ostrich pulls a cart carrying young women wearing ostrich-feather hats.

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew...

The first travelling shot.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray...

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the cage....

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by horseme...

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

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is p...

Three young women dance in Drury Lane, London.