1897 Movies

"This is one of the most remarkable views that has ever been taken, and shows a modern high-power gun in act of discharge. The immense gun, weighing 6...

The first Venezuelan film. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Zulia on 28 January 1897 as the second in a film block of four; the blo...

The first film shot in Egypt.

A train travels along the tracks of the West Shore Railroad in Rockland County, New York. It goes through the Haverstraw Tunnel and out the other side...

Second part of the film about people exiting the Church of the Pillar. A few days after shooting 'Salida de misa de doce del Pilar', Jimeno decides to...

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

Uroczystości powitania cara w Warszawie (translated as Ceremonies Welcoming the Tsar in Warsaw) is a 1897 documentary film directed by Bolesław Matusz...

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and goe...

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

The hen house occupies the entire left foreground of the picture, running back to the nearby road. The main foreground is filled with tall grass swept...

Phantom ride shot from the engine front as a steam train pulling away from Wormit station in Fife, crossing the Tay rail bridge and passing south boun...

A compilation of various shots featuring a festival of activities for young people, involving residents of an unidentified community in the United Kin...

A young boy dances on a table top.

Several young and cheerful children share at Cavancha Beach, while a couple begins to dance a cueca.

On the Coney Island steeple-chase, the wooden horses dash up and down the inclines with weird effect. The picture shows a crowd of people, including a...

Old film of a two-stage train arriving in France, 1897.

The great automobile fire engine on its way to a conflagration, accompanied by hose wagons, etc. A very exciting scene.

Spanish short film directed by French director Joseph Sellier.

It's a public pool, where some men stand by the pool, some dive into it, and other simply enjoy being being in the water.