Max Skladanowsky
Max Skladanowsky was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display the first moving picture show to a paying audience on 1 November 1895, shortly before the public... Read full bio →
Wintergartenprogramm
On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater.
Italienischer Bauerntanz
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
Das boxende Känguruh
The third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
Akrobatisches Potpourri
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.