1890s Movies

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...

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

A staged film where over 100 cyclists cycle towards the camera.

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

In 1890, one man had the idea to collect every bird ever mentioned in Shakespeare and release them into Central Park. The only bird to survive in the...

Made in 1896 during the flat racing season (March-October) at Stockton Racecourse, a former horse racing venue in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire,...

Set in the 1890s, Anna-Liisa and Johannes are young lovers. She agrees to his proposal because she is afraid that her crime will be revealed. Husso,...

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...

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

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.

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