1897 Movies

Short released in 1897.

Hyde Park Corner, with crowds and horse-drawn traffic, at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Produced by Paul's Animatograph Works. Culled...

Actuality film viewable at BFI Mediatheque.

Filming of the waves in Orzán Beach, Galicia (Spain).

A comedy skit with drinking and animal tricks.

The Suburban is run at Sheepshead Bay track, Coney Island. Several views of the great race are given. The parade to the post, the start, the finish sh...

Queen Victoria at a Buckingham Palace garden party held in June 1897, following the diamond jubilee celebrations.

Roma Camp 1897

Crawford's had a store in Madison Square, New York. The horse-drawn buses were typical and can be seen in photographs of Madison Square at this date.

After several athletes have tried unsuccessfully to pole vault, one last gymnast performs a perfect jump.

Two gymnasts successively perform various exercises on a pommel horse.

As a train comes to a halt, workers begin to unload the gravel it is transporting.

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

This picture is very notable from the fact that at the end of the scene, after the run-by of various engines and hose wagons, an engine was forced out...

"Result of a shot from the ten-inch disappearing gun."

A young boy plays with a paralyzed old lady.

Mounted soldiers crossing a river.

Footage of the Paris Carnival of 1897. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin