Movies: Max Skladanowsky

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 Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilation program included short film sequences with f...

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

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

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

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

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm....

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

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 both sides of an empty screen. The scene was shown in continuity, at the end of the session, as if the p...

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

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 unique outdoor museum Skansen is located....

Fire brigade turnout in Berlin....

Street scene in Berlin....

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Police parade in Germany....

Arrival of a railway train....

Street scene in Berlin....

Police detachment in Germany....

Fire brigade response to an alarm in Berlin....

Max takes his bow...