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Dickson Greeting
Dickson Greeting is an 1891 American short silent film. Directed, produced by, and starring motion-picture pioneer William K. L. Dickson, it displays a 3-second clip of him passing a hat in front of h…
Men Boxing
Men Boxing is an 1891 American short silent film, produced and directed by William K. L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Company, featuring two Edison employees with boxing glo…
Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete is an 1891 American short silent film directed and produced by William Kennedy Dickson. The film, roughly 12 seconds in length, displays a young athlete swinging Indian clubs. The iden…
Man on Parallel Bars
The following is an overview of the events of 1892 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance is an 1894 American short film. It is one of the several silent films produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company starring Annabelle Moore. In the film, Annabelle performs o…
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American exhibition/trick shooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Oakley developed hunting ski…
Bucking Broncho
Bucking Broncho is an 1894 American black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. Filmed on a single reel, using standard 35…
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West…
Chinese Opium Den
Chinese Opium Den (also known as Opium Joint) is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent film. It is an early motion picture produced by Thomas Edison. Very little is known about the film as no…
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers and The Corbett-Courtney Fight) is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent film produced by Willia…
Opening of the Kiel Canal
Opening of the Kiel Canal (also known as Inauguration of the Kiel Canal by Kaiser Wilhelm II) is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent documentary news film directed and produced by Birt Acres…
Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs
Performing Animals; or, Skipping Dogs is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, f…
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
The Arrest of a Pickpocket is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent crime film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a polic…
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
American Falls, from Incline R.R.
American Falls, from Incline R.R. (1896) is a brief silent actuality directed by James H. White and produced by Thomas A. Edison. Filmed from a tourist-friendly incline railway in early December 1896,…
East Side Drive, No. 1
East Side Drive, No. 1 (1896) is a brief, silent actual-city documentary directed by James H. White for Edison. Filmed on New York City’s East Side during high society’s “driving hour,” it captures el…
Serpentine Dance
Hand-color. Silent. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/301943
The Boxing Kangaroo
The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul’s peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young b…
Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour
Yarmouth Fishing Boats Leaving Harbour is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Birt Acres, featuring a fleet of fishing smacks leaving the harbour at Great Yarmou…
Come Along, Do!
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the sec…
Bersagliers Cyclistes À La Revue
Silent film.
Kidnapping by Indians
Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, shot in Blackburn, England. It is believed to be the first Western film, pre-dating Edw…
Demonstrating the Action of the Chicago Pneumatic Shell Riveters on the Underside of the Hull of a Steel Vessel. Taken for the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co.
A black and white silent film with a descriptive title.
The Fart Maniac
Silent record of a performance by Joseph Pujol. He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal muscles, which enabled him to seemingly fart at will.
Factory Gate Exit
Silent Film
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.
Watermelon Eating Contest
One of many early silent films depicting young black men eating watermelon. This one involves a competition.
The Night Before Christmas
On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himse…
The Automobile Thieves
A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.