1897 Movies

"Sir Hiram Maxim, in person, firing at targets with one of his latest type rapid-fire guns.

Gymnasts launch themselves and jump on a pommel horse.

Film produced by John Le Couteur for Gaumont, using a 60mm Demeny camera, showing part of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubil...

Lost film.

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great...

Two men armed with a knifes perform a ritualized knife fight with the accompaniment of drums and hand clapping.

This view depicts a scene of a boat rapidly descending onto rails and plunging into a basin filled with water; the passengers then disembark.

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the same...

Lost film.