1897 Movies

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

A group of kids play in a stream.

A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

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...

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

A man trots around on a horse for the camera.

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

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...

A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.

A group of workers, aided by a steam-roller, are leveling the ground during the construction of the Jonage canal, a diversion of the Rhône river, whic...

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

One of the sights of San Francisco. A 50-foot slide is used by the bathers, who toboggan down its slippery surface in all positions...

"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...