1897 Movies

From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains, trolley...

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the ca...

"Two men, with hands tied, are eating huckleberry pies for a wager, direct from the plates. Their faces and shirts are clean when they start. Extra lu...

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

The 'Laughing Waters' of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha.' A beautiful view of this picturesque and celebrated waterfall.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's sw...

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated p...

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Short film by Lumière of people disembarking from a boat at the port of nice.

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

Here is a twelve car train dashing along at a high rate of speed. It is seen first in the distance and approaches and then passes by the camera...