1897 Movies

Cadet manoeuvres at the Aarau Children’s Festival (the Maienzug).

A man enters and pays homage to the lady standing before him. He turns away, and the lad takes off her clothes and reveals herself as a young man: Fre...

This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

An early French short film.

Three people playing cards.

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

A fascinating, up-to-date dancing diversion by four pretty girls in stunning costumes.

Shot between Bois de Boulogne and Porte Maillot

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...

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up ser...

The title tells us where we are; the vignette is in two parts, spliced together. On a busy sidewalk, a police officer holds the left arm and a suited...

A gentleman and a lady refreshes themselves at a restaurant table. An acrobat arrives and begins to perform. He fails, ends up in the arms of the lady...

Military in Germany.

Silent film directed by Georges Demenÿ for Gaumont. An actual remake of the Lumiére brothers' "Démolition d'un mur" (1896).

Workers hauling bundles of hay.

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as...

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr