1897 Movies

"Stable door opens and ambulance dashes out into the street. Policeman holds back a furniture van till ambulance passes by."

Two men pull a practical prank on two victims.

Lumiere brothers actuality, filmed the 12th of March 1896 in Rome, in front of the Spanish Steps. It shows some couples of Ciociari performing their t...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss t...

“Shows the vessel after she has been fully turned and on her way across the Pacific. The boat shows large and clear with smoke coming from the stack....

The 'Laughing Waters' of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha.' A beautiful view of this picturesque and celebrated waterfall.

Patients on stretchers are lifted off a cart and carried toward the shrine at Lourdes.

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

A Victorian couple dancing.

"A fascinating, up-to-date dancing diversion by four pretty girls in stunning costumes."

Beirut: place cannons.

Stationary camera on a railroad yard.

In a field, three women are using pitchforks in order to feed a small fire with weeds.

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.