1897 Movies

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

A group of friends playing tennis.

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...

Early silent film

At first this looks like another of those innumerable fire brigade movies of the era in which you saw the horses charging pellmell out of the firehous...

A battery being set up.

Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

Film produced by John Le Couteur for Gaumont, using a 60mm Demeny camera, showing part of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubil...

Horsemen, preceded by officers, cross a hedge.

New Pillow Fight, also titled Daughters' Pillow Fight, is the name of a very early short comedy film, released in 1897. This scene shows four little g...

A gentleman and a lady refreshes themselves at a restaurant table. An acrobat arrives and begins to perform. He fails, ends up in the arms of the lady...