The Lumière brothers were not the only ones to make film in the 1890s. In Germany there was Max Skladanowsky who produced several short films, often based on older vaudeville acts. Before Skladanowsky started to record and show film, he and his brother had toured Europe in various variety shows with projecting lanternslides.

Skladanowsky's moving pictures completed these shows, and already in November 1895 in Germany they were the first ones to show moving pictures on the stage at the Wintergarten vaudeville in Berlin. Thus, the Skladanowsky's showed projected moving pictures to a paying audience one month prior to the Lumiere brothers.

Skladanowsky also made the first film in Sweden - a small humorous film scene that was shot outside the entrance gates of Skansen in 1896. The film that can be seen to the left was entitled, Komische Begegnungen im Tiergarten zu Stockholm, [Humorous events at the Zoo in Stockholm].