1897 Movies

Men burning a pile of wood.

New Pillow Fight, also titled Daughters' Pillow Fight, is the name of a very early short comedy film, released in 1897. This scene shows four little g...

Workers hauling bundles of hay.

Lovers are comically interrupted

Exercises and jumps on parallel bars.

Related to Clown and possibly a sequel. Also known as "Clown sans tabouret"

Barber shop skit with Leopoldo Fregoli.

This single camera position film shows an officer and six enlisted men of the army as they demonstrate the assembly drill of a gatling gun. See also:...

A painter, unhappy to see his painting rejected by the jury, hits one of the jurors whose head goes through the canvas and who remains stuck in the fr...

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

A harbour view: the arrival of a steam ship in Bordeaux.

Another Edison film of a ship departing.

A kickboxing movie. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around the s...

A gentleman and a lady refreshes themselves at a restaurant table. An acrobat arrives and begins to perform. He fails, ends up in the arms of the lady...

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.