Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
Akrobatisches Potpourri
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
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
The Serpentine Dancer
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
Lost film by Kazimierz Prószyński. A shot of people walking on Franciscan Street.
Franciscan Street
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
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
A policeman catches a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing a sailor.
The Arrest of a Pickpocket
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
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
Kamarinskaja
A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.
Course en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
An ordinary walk.
Marche Ordinaire
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
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
Ringkämpfer
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
Samoan Islanders from Barnum & Bailey's Circus perform a dance.
Dance of Rejoicing
The participants are natives of Ceylon. Their dance is very interesting being so different from Western ideas of harmonies of motion.
Silver Dance
The Nicholas Sisters perform a "split dance" from a Koster & Bial’s Music Hall stage production.
Nicholas Sisters Split Dance
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
Short film about the opening of the Kiel Canal in 1895
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