1897 Movies

A dentist gives a glass of water to a patient from whom he has just extracted a tooth; but the patient, in his confusion, spits the water in the denti...

This film documents the historic event of the launch of the large cruiser SMS Fürst Bismarck.

A man enters and pays homage to the lady standing before him. He turns away, and the lad takes off her clothes and reveals herself as a young man: Fre...

Parade March of the First Foot Guard Regiment.

The German imperial family on their way out of the armory.

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one of the...

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's sw...

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...

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

Three sections of infantrymen marching past.

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are moo...

Remake of the 1895 comedy by the Lumière Brothers. A similar scene is filmed from a different angle, and a young man has replaced the prankster child....

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as...