The 20 Best Films of 1896

Considerada la primera película de terror de la historia del cine. Se inicia cuando un vampiro llega a un castillo ancestral y se transforma en el propio Mefistófeles.

As an elegant maestro of mirage and delusion drapes his beautiful female assistant with a gauzy textile, much to our amazement, the lady vanishes into thin air.

Primer intento de representar una pesadilla en el cine. Un hombre comienza soñando con una linda mujer al borde de su cama, pero esta mujer se transforma en desquiciados personajes; incluso la luna se acerca hasta su balcón a molestarlo.

A gardener is watering a garden. A child sneaks up behind him and steps on the hose. The gardener puts the nozzle up to his face. The boy then steps off the hose, resulting in the gardener getting wet. The boy ends up getting a spanking.

Two duelists, armed with pistols, fire: one of them is hit and collapses.

"Shows papa walking the floor with a crying baby in his arms. An exceedingly laughable subject."

A lady watering the garden with a hose, a mischievous boy stops the flow of water until she looks for the cause, when he permits the water to flow, resulting in the lady taking an unexpected bath. The father then appears and chastises the youthful culprit. One of the best films ever made.

Husband comes home late and wakes the wife.

Un hombre intenta dormir, pero una araña gigante se sube a su cama.

"Depicts the patient fisherman, sitting on the end of a plank, waiting for a bite. Practical joker comes along and removes stone from other end of plank."

Un tren llega a la estación de La Ciotat.

This lost film presumably features a person watering flowers to comedic effect. This film is believed to have imitated the Louis and Auguste Lumière film "L'arroseur arrose", which survives.

Shows the surf breaking upon the shore, and in the distance, two fishermen in a boat, returning from a day's fishing.

Un soldado hace guardia delante de una pared donde está prohibido fijar carteles, pero una persona espera a que se despiste para pegar uno.

Fantasy tale involving a fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. Gently moving through the cabbages and using of lovely gestures, she takes one baby out of there, then makes more magic and delivers two more.

A woman sitting on a bench is approached by a soldier. Momentarily, she refuses his advances, but in no time at all, they are kissing each other passionately.

In a medium closeup shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at a hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.

Workers are unloading a ship in Barcelona 1896.

The fourth of eight short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson in which he chronicles the story of Rip Van Winkle. In this film, Rip encounters several other dwarf-like mountain-dwellers.