1890s Movies

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

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...

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

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

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an...

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...

Three sisters dance the Mikado in this very early film from the Edison company.

Following his map, a Nordic philologist unearths a mysterious rune stone that hides an ancient curse. Based off the Kensington Stone.

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