1890s Movies

An actuality film of traffic and pedestrian movement at the end of a bridge. In the distance on the other side of the bridge, the tops of some large...

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

Young boys going into the sea water by Brighton's West Pier in the UK to pick up pennies thrown in by people on the pier.

The first part of the film shows an actuality street scene of traffic in the Strand. Behind the traffic we can see the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre...

30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

A group of children are encouraged to play in a park by two men. Some play a skipping game. One of the other children refuses and eventually runs...

Purportedly a track race being run on the course at Stockton-On-Tees, UK, followed by the crowd invading the course afterwards, as people often did...

A man is fishing from the side of a river and falls in. Another man dives in to save him. Using camera trickery, the second man 'jumps' backwards...

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...