Max Skladanowsky Movies

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.

A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s...

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the...

The two inventors of the Bioskop, a sort of magic lantern that projected images so fast as to give the illusion of movement, bow to the camera at...

Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.

Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

Police parade in Germany.

Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.

Street scene in Berlin.

Fire brigade turnout in Berlin.

Arrival of a railway train.

Police detachment in Germany.

Street scene in Berlin.