The best movies 1896 Pagina 4

Show of Mexican ranchers catching cows.

A boat returns to port, where passengers are helped ashore.

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...

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

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

Filmed during the coronation ceremonies of Nicholas II in Moscow in 1896, this short by Lumière operator Francis Doublier shows the imperial...

Javanese dancers performing a folk dance.

Beligneux, La Valbonne camp: the cuirassiers mount their horses and then march in formation.

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...

Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.

Children drag their nets on the beach at low tide: the girls, with their skirts raised, compete enthusiastically with the boys in this exercise.

A short documentary clip released by Pathé Frères.

Mexicans doing a rodeo.

The subject of the first essay is cinema itself: an apparatus of representation wherein fact and fiction are recreated. As such, the pro-filmic facts...

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

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

A roller skater performs a series of eccentric exercises.

Students in Lyon.

Coach W. Hickenbotham takes "Newhaven" out of his box and places the horse at the center of the paddock. Gardiner, the jockey, saddles up the horse,...