Most Viewed Year 1897

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...

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...

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

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...

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, 1897.

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...

Another critically acclaimed Lumiere street scene.

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...

Short film from (1897)

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.