1897 Movies

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

One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one of the...

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up ser...

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

A woman is troubled by a flea. In order to find him, she gradually takes her dresses off.

Two carts, one with a boat on it, are being pushed out of a garage.

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

Showing the Austrian Emperor laying the corner stone of a new military barracks.

A man is robbed of everything he's got and gets in trouble with the police about it.

A companion picture to No. 159 [THEATRE HAT]; showing how every one in an audience can get an uninterrupted view of the stage, when the ladies remove...