1897 Movies

A Lumière street scene of Paris showing the traffic of horse carriages.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

Lumière Catalogue No. 705. A view of the warehouses and docks taken from a local train in Liverpool, ending at the Princess Dock station.

“Arrival of a train at Villefranche (Rhône) station.” A train enters the station, travelers get off it while others get in.

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the en...

A military horse show in Basel.

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...

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...

State officials meeting on a landing.

Patients are conveyed in carriages toward the shrine in Lourdes.

A boxing demonstration alternating between kicks and punches.

A troop of horsemen equipped with visored leather helmets fights with sabers in utter disarray.

“These views were taken in a village of Aschantis which was set up in Lyon at the time of the Exhibition. All these views are very interesting; their...