1897 Movies

Lovers are comically interrupted

A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

A moving image of the docks of Liverpool. Lumière Catalogue No. 704.

One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.

Clarence Dock

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in ga...

Shot from a train as it leaves a station.

A Roman street scene from the Lumière Brothers.

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to tea...