The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
Opening of the Kiel Canal
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
A Senegalese woman carries a weight on her head at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Femme Ouolofe (Sénégal) en marche avec poids sur sa tête
A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Démarche de Musulmans de Saint-Louis, Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale à Paris
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
Ringkämpfer
A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Homme Noir, Marche, Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale au Champ-de-Mars à Paris
A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.
Course en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.
Marche en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Félix Regnault assis sur un palanquin porté par des malgaches au pas
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
Silver Dance
A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Wolof Woman (Senegal) Carrying a Child on Her Back
The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.
Nicholas Sisters Split Dance
An ordinary walk.
Marche Ordinaire
Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the...
Princess Ali
By Fiji Islanders. A peculiar dance by genuine artists, dressed or rather undressed, in their native garb. The revel takes its name from the paddles...
Paddle Dance
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...
The Derby 1895
Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.
Dance of Rejoicing
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895. The Emperor arrives at the rail station.
Nordostsee-Canal-Festlichkeiten: Empfang des Kaisers am Dammthorbahnhof
A native dance peculiar to India. Very odd and interesting. Strange costumes and stranger motions.
Short Stick Dance
A lost film of two boxers.
Young Griffo v. Battling Charles Barnett
