1890s Movies

Shortly before her birthday dinner, attended by her immediate family, Margaret, a highly sensitive young girl, writes a phrase once whispered to her...

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

In May 1896, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev was still strong and enterprising, but he openly felt bored spending the warm season at his summer house in...

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

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

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...

A story about a London vampire, set in the Gay '90s. In black and white.

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

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead...

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.

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

Actuality film. Late 19th century General Officer ranks and higher cross to a ship over a gangplank. As VIPs they meet some people which we don't...

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...

4 horse drawn fire brigade carts pull out from Newcastle fire station in the UK as part of a filmed demonstration

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...

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...

A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as they race past. Once they are out of view and...

Film made at Hyde Park Corner in 1896 by an unknown filmmaker. It looks south west across Grosvenor Place. The southern wing of St George's Hospital...

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...

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.