1897 Movies

A city view, rich in movement, shot at the corner of the Schauplatzgasse in Bern.

Bustle in the square.

Shot between Bois de Boulogne and Porte Maillot

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 street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.

The first Venezuelan film. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Zulia on 28 January 1897 as the second in a film block of four; the blo...

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-c...

A dentist gives a glass of water to a patient from whom he has just extracted a tooth; but the patient, in his confusion, spits the water in the denti...

The film documents the launch of the steamship on May 4, 1897, at the Vulcan Shipyard in Stettin, an event attended by Emperor Wilhelm II.

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...

Early silent film

Three sections of infantrymen marching past.

Master kisses maid behind a blanket on the clothes line and is seen by his wife.

Roma Camp 1897

In rows and each equipped with a stick, gymnasts perform various group movements.

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. A magician sits a lady under a rug and makes her disapppear, before she reappearing in a field,...

Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...