1897 Movies

A compilation of various shots featuring a festival of activities for young people, involving residents of an unidentified community in the United Kin...

Old film of a two-stage train arriving in France, 1897.

A bunch of people exit the Church of Saint George.

A young boy dances on a table top.

The second Venezuelan film produced. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on 28 January 1897. The film shows a group of youn...

Arguably the first film to be produced in Galicia (Spain).

This Pathe actuality of men and horses fording the Marne.

'The 'Nordland,' and 'Teutonic,' two well-known transatlantic steamers proceeding out of New York Harbor at full speed, bound for their trip across th...

The troops ride their horses from the right edge of the frame to the left edge of the frame. It's among the simplest of actualities, since the framing...

Hyde Park Corner, with crowds and horse-drawn traffic, at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Produced by Paul's Animatograph Works. Culled...

A comedy skit with drinking and animal tricks.

The Suburban is run at Sheepshead Bay track, Coney Island. Several views of the great race are given. The parade to the post, the start, the finish sh...

Queen Victoria at a Buckingham Palace garden party held in June 1897, following the diamond jubilee celebrations.

Roma Camp 1897

Crawford's had a store in Madison Square, New York. The horse-drawn buses were typical and can be seen in photographs of Madison Square at this date.

Sword handling demonstration.

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

Showing the Austrian Emperor laying the corner stone of a new military barracks.

Short released in 1897.

Footage of the Paris Carnival of 1897. Shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin