1897 Movies

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

Short film by Lumière of people disembarking from a boat at the port of nice.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of coal...

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated p...

Carrara, Italy. A train loaded with marble exits a tunnel.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the ca...

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

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...

From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen engaged...

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised and...

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

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

Boys diving into a river.

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life...

A view of the Great Sphinx with two of Giza's pyramids in the background. A caravan passes the scene.

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

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.