Most Viewed Year 1897

Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...

A Japanese family having tea.

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

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

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never...

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up...

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

From F.Z. Maguire catalogue: The background of this picture is the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Cal. This observatory, the gift of James Lick,...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.