Silent film showcasing hypnosis and its effects.
1909
A woman is shown various wallpaper samples, in a short displaying the Kinemacolour process
1896
Three men are chopping and transporting firewood, among passers-by, on a square in Lausanne.
A Lumière Brothers film showing a street scene in Budapest.
Women hauling coke in wheelbarrows.
A crowd of young children dance around.
1910
"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to the growth of plants." Monthly Film Bulletin, November 1955.
1897
The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.
A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and feet appear to be bare. (Library of Congress)
A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.
A Victorian couple dancing.
1895
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the producers and directors of the session were beading the public a farewell.
Soldiers dancing.
Mexican vaqueros (cattle herders) in Guadalajara guide their horses through water.
1900
A Chinese dragon parade.
Native Mexican people grouped in front of the camera.
