1897 Movies

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and ev...

“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 great...

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

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...

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 ca...

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

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 room--be...

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of cinema has witnesse...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Je...

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

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 th...

Short recording of several parishioners leaving the city's basilica. It is considered the first Spanish film in history.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

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 sw...

A very heavy turret is transported on a truck drawn by a long line of horses. The inscription “Charlemagne 53790K” readable on the turret suggests th...

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

Serpentine dance.