Movies 1897 Page 4

A line is shot to the man clinging to the overturned boat. He fastens it to his body using all his fast failing strength. The crew pull him through...

A group of four children, circle dancing.

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

Surrounded by an escort and preceded by the Prefect, President Félix Faure saluted as he advanced.

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...

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

Early silent film

“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the action...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.

A magician's trick.

From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. This observatory, the gift of James Lick,...

Two carts, one with a boat on it, are being pushed out of a garage.

Most movie fans know that the first filmmakers liked to shoot trains entering stations. This example by Sussex film pioneer George Albert Smith...

A crowded ship heading out to sea.

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

The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited...

While a group of seated women sing and clap their hands, young girls dance with small steps.

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one of...

“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...

Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...

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

From Edison films catalog: The water breaks over the rocks, and is dashed into silvery spray, high into the air. Exceptionally fine water effects.

The famous Seal Rocks at Golden Gate Park are here shown. Sea lions in their wild state are lying on the rocks and swimming and diving in the water.

The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward...

New Pillow Fight, also titled Daughters' Pillow Fight, is the name of a very early short comedy film, released in 1897. This scene shows four little...

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...

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

Men burning a pile of wood.

Gordon Highlanders during the Boer war

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and...