1897 Movies

Actuality film about kids dancing

This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Not much is known about this film except that it was shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin. Presumably produced by Eugène Pirou

A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to tea...

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited...

Shows the S.S. "Queen" at Seattle with an immense crowd of miners crowding the decks of the boat and the docks, carrying aboard baggage, implements, e...

The scene depicts the well-known episode depicted in a famous painting. Two groups of soldiers follow each other into the room and open fire. A grenad...

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

People carry candles in a procession in Lourdes.

Accompanied by the sound of drums and the clapping of the audience, two women and two men perform a dance.

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

A battalion of Bersaglieri charging, at the double, comes to a full stop; the first line goes down on bended knee, while others remain standing; and a...

Taken at the docks of the Pacific Steamship Co., San Francisco, Cal., which is operated in connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad Co...

Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.