Movies 1897 Page 3

Taken at the docks of the Pacific Steamship Co., San Francisco, Cal., which is operated in connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad Co...

"Shows a large flock of sheep being driven from the cars to the slaughter house."

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds of...

“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 the...

Shows the wharf at San Francisco, Cal., with a large fleet of fishing boats at anchor.

Daily practice of life boat crew, showing boat being upset purposely by the men. As these boats are self-righting and self-bailing, the scene is...

Two carts, one with a boat on it, are being pushed out of a garage.

Two boys quarrel over a girl at a birthday party.

A playful variation on A Soldier's Courtship, producer Robert W. Paul's smash hit from the previous year, this film spies on a young man trying to...

From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains,...

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

A regiment of soldiers demonstrate their skills.

The famous Seal Rocks at Golden Gate Park are here shown. Sea lions in their wild state are lying on the rocks and swimming and diving in the water.

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

Men burning a pile of wood.

A street scene showing parade of the entire Buffalo Police Department, 16 men abreast, with military band.

Dancing in a Harem was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 132 in its...

This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.

Stationary camera on a railroad yard.