Most Viewed Year 1896 - 18

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...

A large wedding procession.

Passage of three carriages, escorted by lackeys and soldiers.

100 seconds-long six-scene footage consisting of selected coronation ceremonies of the Russian Tsar (Emperor) Nicholas II. Shows distinguished guests...

Another street scene from the Lumiere company

In front of a building, five carpenters are working on woodworking machines.

A "gigantic demonstration of the Business Men's Republican and Sound Money Association" on 10/31/1896, opposing "Free Silver" Democrats in the...

A roller skater performs a series of eccentric exercises.

At the launch of a ship, of which we can only see the hull, the audience moves aside.

This is just at the title suggests. it's the McKinley and Hobart Parade at Canton

The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be...

Parade of hunters and Spahis.

A tramp steals a housewife's pie, and is pursued by her bulldog, which latches onto his rear as he scrambles over a fence.

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...