1890s Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...