1897 Movies

Liverpool, the sparse. Boats in Liverpool.

A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to tea...

A shot of traffic in front of Palais de la Bourse, Bruxelles.

“A clever characteristic dance called the 'Yellow Kid.' Very unique. Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is composed la...

A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.

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 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an overpas...

"It dashes up just in time to gather in the crowd of rowdies that are fighting. The policemen hustle the toughs off to the station house."

The arrival of King Rama V, the king of Siam, in Switzerland.