1897 Movies

Shows the S.S. "Queen" at Seattle with an immense crowd of miners crowding the decks of the boat and the docks, carrying aboard baggage, implements, e...

Remake of the 1895 by the Lumière Brothers. A similar scene is filmed from a different angle, and a young man has replaced the prankster child.

Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

After a picador tries in vain to bite the bull, several cape passes are performed. Then, the bull gores several horses.

The victim is lying on a trolley car fender. Ambulance drives up and the injured man is removed in a stretcher.

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

Various parts of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

A ship in a harbor.

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds of...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

The busiest corner in Chicago. Cable cars and street traffic of all descriptions. Hundreds of shoppers. Fine perspective view looking north toward the...