1890s Movies

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...