Most Viewed Year 1897 - 1

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...

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

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...

Comic hijinks with a malodorous tramp

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

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

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

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...

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

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

Groups of men and women, parading in Interlaken, Switzerland, some of them carrying banners.

Short film from (1897)