1897 Movies

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 the...

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

A small boy brings a plate of milk to a big cat, grooming itself.

Comic scene shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Two men cause a fight between a cardboard box maker and a carpenter.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

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...

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

The tribe parades behind a couple walking under a canopy.

“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...

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal...

Patients are conveyed in carriages toward the shrine in Lourdes.

A ship in a harbor.

“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 stack....

Street bustle.

Panoramic view of Constantinople.