1897 Movies

Lovers are comically interrupted

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

As people board boats, the steamboat "France" is about to dock.

Ten horse-drawn pieces of equipment of the Buffalo Fire Department pass by a stationary camera that looks down a broad avenue as they come toward it.....

Two lines of workers, pulling a steamroller, somewhere in the streets of Saigon, Vietnam (nowadays, Ho Chi Minh City).

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

A gymnast performs several balance exercises on parallel bars.

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 catalo...

The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

A black poodle jumping.

Footage of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an overpas...

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.