Movies 1897 Page 30

A companion picture to No. 159 [THEATRE HAT]; showing how every one in an audience can get an uninterrupted view of the stage, when the ladies remove...

Shows the discomfiture of those who are seated behind large hats at the theatre.

A black poodle runs up and down steps.

Restored in 2015 in 4K by Cinémathèque française with the support of CNC – Archives Françaises du film, from a hand-coloured 35mm positive...

People come out the doors and down the steps of the Church of the Rosary in Lourdes.

Actuality film viewable at BFI Mediatheque.

Actuality film about kids dancing

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

"This picture, taken from a rapidly moving tug, gives a very comprehensive idea of the lower end of New York City, including prominent sky-scrapers,...

An elderly man wearing a silk top hat, mesmerises sparrows –and his audience- in a public square.

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

Early short film

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

The Spectacular Dancer in five NEW bewildering and sensational dances (#233-237). [This is likely the first of the five from the 1897 Catalogue:...

'The 'Nordland,' and 'Teutonic,' two well-known transatlantic steamers proceeding out of New York Harbor at full speed, bound for their trip across...

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...

One of many early French actuality films depicting the arrival of a train at a station.

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