1897 Movies

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.

A group of workers, aided by a steam-roller, are leveling the ground during the construction of the Jonage canal, a diversion of the Rhône river, whic...

From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen engaged...

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's sw...

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

Small glimpse of city life in Jerusalem.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life...

Boys diving into a river.

Short film by Lumière of people disembarking from a boat at the port of nice.

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as...

A man peeping through a keyhole at an attractive young woman gets his comeuppance. This film, presumed lost, is often mistaken for Ferdinand Zecca's "...

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal...