1897 Movies

A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and fee...

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it...

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...

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great...

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

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

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as...

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

"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...

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

Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.

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