1897 Movies

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never existed. Copies of it...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated p...

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnesse...

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

Three people playing cards.

A group of workers, aided by a steam-roller, are leveling the ground during the construction of the Jonage canal, a diversion of the Rhône river, whic...

From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. This observatory, the gift of James Lick, of...

A parade of horses pulling a very large and, one must assume, heavy cart.

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...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

This legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch...

This picture is very notable from the fact that at the end of the scene, after the run-by of various engines and hose wagons, an engine was forced out...

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

A group of kids play in a stream.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.