The best movies 1897

“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the...

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...

A line is shot to the man clinging to the overturned boat. He fastens it to his body using all his fast failing strength. The crew pull him through...

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as...

Young girls engage in a pillow fight until it is broken up by the headmistress. A number of young ladies, in their night robes, are having a frolic,...

Another Edison film shot in San Francisco at the Fisherman's Wharf. Once again the camera is looking down on a group of men doing their jobs.

"The main feature is the toboggan slide. Some sit down while others lie down, either head or feet first."

“A clever characteristic dance called the 'Yellow Kid.' Very unique. Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is...

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

Shows a party of young people in front of a barn door, searching for the red ear, which is discovered, and the penalty exacted from one of the group...

A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white...

Pedestrian, tram and carriage traffic on the square.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

The wharf is crowded with live stock, and the huge derrick slowly drops the large box or sling into the bunch. Into this cradle a horse is led, and...

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

The Argentinian flag waving at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Currently a lost film.

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...

The first Venezuelan film. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Zulia on 28 January 1897 as the second in a film block of four; the...

Short recording of several parishioners leaving the city's basilica. It is considered the first Spanish film in history.

A bunch of people exit the Church of Saint George.

Spanish short film directed by French director Joseph Sellier.

Several young and cheerful children share at Cavancha Beach, while a couple begins to dance a cueca.

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

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...

Filming of the waves in Orzán Beach, Galicia (Spain).

Short film where a Spanish coal factory is filmed.

Second part of the film about people exiting the Church of the Pillar. A few days after shooting 'Salida de misa de doce del Pilar', Jimeno decides...