Movies 1897 Page 7

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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

A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white...

A man enters and pays homage to the lady standing before him. He turns away, and the lad takes off her clothes and reveals herself as a young man:...

The Argentinian flag waving at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Currently a lost film.

Military exercises in Basel.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

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

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

A barber creams his customer carelessly and pulls a strop attached to the customer's throat like a snare. He then stirs wildly as the customer's head...

Children enjoying the seaside.

A Victorian couple dancing.

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

A staging of Jesus' passion.

Actuality footage of the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris road trials — a procession of early motor “carriages” (including electric vehicles)...

Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R....

Brief actuality footage showing Queen Victoria's open landau, bearing the Princess of Wales and Princess Christian. The location and filmmaker remain...

Roma Camp 1897

A comedy skit with drinking and animal tricks.

"This active little animal has made a great hit wherever he has appeared on the vaudeville stage. A large bag is suspended by a cord so that it is...

Images of Parisian women

The troops ride their horses from the right edge of the frame to the left edge of the frame. It's among the simplest of actualities, since the...

"As performed by Annabelle, the famous premier danseuse. A charmingly graceful representation of the light and airy flight of a butterfly. Beautiful...

A companion picture to No. 159 [THEATRE HAT]; showing how every one in an audience can get an uninterrupted view of the stage, when the ladies remove...

The Suburban is run at Sheepshead Bay track, Coney Island. Several views of the great race are given. The parade to the post, the start, the finish...

Queen Victoria at a Buckingham Palace garden party held in June 1897, following the diamond jubilee celebrations.