1897 Movies

Parade of artillerymen and teams of artillery pieces.

Two boxers miss their punches - until they don't.

A troop of horsemen equipped with visored leather helmets fights with sabers in utter disarray.

State officials meeting on a landing.

The Republic Square in Paris in 1897

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

Lost film.

Departure of a transatlantic liner from Marseille. The ship leaves the Joliette basin.

The Swedish Royal family arrives at the General Art and Industrial Exposition at Djurgården in Stockholm on 15 May 1897.

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are th...

Two men armed with a knifes perform a ritualized knife fight with the accompaniment of drums and hand clapping.

Lost 1897 film in which two men argue over the affection of a woman in a café, with their discussion escalating into a fistfight. Widely regarded as t...

The tribe parades behind a couple walking under a canopy.

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in ga...