Max Skladanowsky Movies

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

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

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...

Filmed in 1896, this actuality captures everyday life at Alexanderplatz, one of Berlin’s central squares. The camera records crowds of...

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

Police detachment in Germany.

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

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

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 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...

Police parade in Germany.

Fire brigade turnout in Berlin.

Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.

Street scene in Berlin.

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

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

"No Longer Alone". Parody of "Finally Alone".

The neighbor of a loud composer gets her sneaky revenge when she smuggels a pesty fly into his appartment.

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