1897 Movies

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

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 "...

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

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

A Victorian couple dancing.

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...

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

A woman from the Ashanti tribe bathes her child in a shallow bowl.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

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 picture shows the Devil working at a fire. Two cavaliers appear, and the Devil takes the form of a seer, old, bent and wrinkled. Then he disappea...

“Another view in which the figures show larger. A springboard furnishes the bathers with much amusement; also a toboggan slide.” (Edison film catalog)

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

"It dashes up just in time to gather in the crowd of rowdies that are fighting. The policemen hustle the toughs off to the station house."

A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white spor...

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.