1897 Movies

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

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...

Taken at the docks of the Pacific Steamship Co., San Francisco, Cal., which is operated in connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad Co...

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Je...

A balcony courting scene turns into a man being beaten in a sack.

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life...

Boys diving into a river.

A ship in a harbor.

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

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

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds of...

Serpentine dance.

"Stable door opens and ambulance dashes out into the street. Policeman holds back a furniture van till ambulance passes by."

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.