1897 Movies

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

A man pulls a rabbit out of a hat. Available in a fragment in flipbook version only.

According to Denis Condon, the march was situated on Blackhorse Avenue (north of North Circular Road),with McKee barracks in the background. Restored...

Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Mounted soldiers crossing a river.

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

The first film shot in Egypt.

La Poupée is a series of three short films inspired from a comedy in four acts of the same name by Edmond Audran, performed for the first time at the...

Several young and cheerful children share at Cavancha Beach, while a couple begins to dance a cueca.

"Two German anglers are fishing, with odd results. One gets a bite, and pulls in a length of stovepipe. The other is so astonished that he falls overb...

A line of giddy, possibly drunk men, dressed in Scottish highland outfits, perform a disorderly dance routine in front of a sign advertising the produ...

One of many early French actuality films depicting the arrival of a train at a station.

Short comedy shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

"A fascinating skirt dance by the well-known roof garden favorite."

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

A Lumière film of a military parade before the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière.

Comedy routine featuring two clowns. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin

Swiss Army gunners practicing.