1897 Movies

Ainu people, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido. A group of women is spot-dancing, while a man circles around them.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the turret suggests th...

Another parade film from the Lumiere company.

“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the action th...

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the en...

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Barber shop skit with Leopoldo Fregoli.

A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as exhi...

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R. Ge...

Groups of men and women, parading in Interlaken, Switzerland, some of them carrying banners.

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