1897 Movies

The film had a skirmish to Firefighters from Havana pulling guard barracks pump, reel and carriage for help, two staircases and fire rising up to the...

Another Edison film of a ship departing.

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.

The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.

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...

Panoramic view of Constantinople.

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

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

“By the Leanders. The dress of one consists of a pair of wings and a bow and arrow; the other represents a fairy. Bathers in all stages of dress and u...

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

"The famous parade ground of Metropolitan fashion. Exquisitely gowned women, club men, actresses, millionaires pass by on their afternoon stroll." - f...

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has great dif...