Movies 1897 Page 5

Shows the wharf at San Francisco, Cal., with a large fleet of fishing boats at anchor.

“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...

Daily practice of life boat crew, showing boat being upset purposely by the men. As these boats are self-righting and self-bailing, the scene is...

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

Shows the S.S. "Queen" at Seattle with an immense crowd of miners crowding the decks of the boat and the docks, carrying aboard baggage, implements,...

"The famous parade ground of Metropolitan fashion. Exquisitely gowned women, club men, actresses, millionaires pass by on their afternoon stroll." -...

This legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch...

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

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

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

One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions...

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

"Shows a large flock of sheep being driven from the cars to the slaughter house."

Taken on the S.P. Railroad, near tunnel No. 9. The train comes rushing out of the tunnel and passes at full speed...

Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and...

A young boy dances on a table top.

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...

Dancing in a Harem was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 132 in its...

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...

Two boys quarrel over a girl at a birthday party.

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the...

"A fascinating skirt dance by the well-known roof garden favorite."

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...

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the...

Film produced by John Le Couteur for Gaumont, using a 60mm Demeny camera, showing part of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond...

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

The victim is lying on a trolley car fender. Ambulance drives up and the injured man is removed in a stretcher.

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up...

Another Edison film of a ship departing.

Military in Germany.