1897 Movies

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

Film produced by the Lumière brothers society between 1897 and 1898 with unidentified direction.

Bustle in the square.

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

Large group of couples dancing.

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...

A herd of long-horn cattle being driven through the Chicago stock yard gates to the slaughter house, where 280 of the animals are killed every hour of...

An alternative ballet dance.

Presents views of a parade in Montreux, including carts and donkeys covered with flowers, horsedrawn floats, bicycles, and people in native dress.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Je...

Using an egg, a candle and a flame, a magician makes a rabbit appear in a frying pan, to the great surprise of his assistant and to the applause of a...

Three young women with dark, curly hair stand on a stage with a black background and patterned carpet or tile underfoot. They wear tights, ballet shoe...

A man peeping through a keyhole at an attractive young woman gets his comeuppance. This film, presumed lost, is often mistaken for Ferdinand Zecca's "...

A painter, unhappy to see his painting rejected by the jury, hits one of the jurors whose head goes through the canvas and who remains stuck in the fr...

Two dancers mime a fight to the sound of the tom-tom drum and the clapping of hands.

Queen Elisabeth of Wied, in a carriage escorted by cavalry, followed by King Carol I and Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on horseback, greeted by the...