Max Skladanowsky Movies

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.

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...

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

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

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.

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

Police parade in Germany.

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

At the waterfront in Szczecin

Police detachment in Germany.

Fire brigade turnout in Berlin.

A young woman is a cook in a noble house, but she reads her favorite drama "Joan of Arc" as often as she can while she works. But that's not all, she...

Skladanowsky Brothers, the inventors of the "Living Photographs"

Arrival of a railway train.

Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin.

Compilation of Max Skladanowsky's films, magic lanterns, and flip books.

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