# Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)

Monkeyshines is a series of experimental short silent films made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope, and are believed to be the first films shot in the United States. Watch on RetroFlix.org: https://retroflix.org/monkeyshines-no-1-1890/

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1890
- By: William Heise, William Kennedy Dickson
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/monkeyshines-no.-1-1890)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/monkeyshines-no.-1-1890?play=1)