Most Viewed Year 1895 - 3

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

A man and a woman, observed by others, are playing a game of Tric-trac, a French variant of Backgammon. During the course of the game, the man gets...

A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various humorous acts in a Trilby segment from David...

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

Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.

A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

An early Kinora demonstration film.

The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment from David Henderson's Aladdin, Jr. burlesque. Lost.

Four men at work in a forge. The uses hammers and and anvil to beat metal.

A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.

Scene from a Trilby-themed stage play. Lost.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.

The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.

A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring one dog jumping through hoops and another dancing in a costume, which was considered lost...

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895