1897 Movies

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film "Alchimiste Par...

A military horse show in Basel.

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

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

A roller skater performs a series of eccentric exercises.

Another Edison film shot in San Francisco at the Fisherman's Wharf. Once again the camera is looking down on a group of men doing their jobs.

Lost film.

Passengers board the train while others move about on the platform.

“These views were taken in a village of Aschantis which was set up in Lyon at the time of the Exhibition. All these views are very interesting; their...

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

This Edison short takes us to San Jose, CA where we visit the Hotel Vendome (just as the title suggests).

This view depicts a scene of a boat rapidly descending onto rails and plunging into a basin filled with water; the passengers then disembark.

Firefighters at work in Belfast.

Two sections of Chasseurs Alpins climb a wall then descend it.

Lost 1897 film in which two men argue over the affection of a woman in a café, with their discussion escalating into a fistfight. Widely regarded as t...