1897 Movies

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are moo...

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

Market bustle.

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

The bear is the emblem of Bern, and the pit that used to house several of the animals was the most common motif in representations of the city, as wel...

A painter, unhappy to see his painting rejected by the jury, hits one of the jurors whose head goes through the canvas and who remains stuck in the fr...

This silent film documents the event at the Vulkan Shipyard in Stettin on April 14, 1897. It is a very early film recording showing the launch of the...

Photage of people at Praterstern square in Vienna, Austria.

A herd of long-horn cattle being driven through the Chicago stock yard gates to the slaughter house, where 280 of the animals are killed every hour of...

Street bustle.

To the sound of drum and handclapping, the witch doctor dances, spinning around on himself.

A harbour view: the arrival of a steam ship in Bordeaux.