The best movies 1897

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

A group of four children, circle dancing.

Silent film directed by Georges Demenÿ for Gaumont. An actual remake of the Lumiére brothers' "Démolition d'un mur" (1896).

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...

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

Passengers disembarking in the port of Nice.

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

A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white...

Using an egg, a candle and a flame, a magician makes a rabbit appear in a frying pan, to the great surprise of his assistant and to the applause of a...

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

Traffic of pedestrians, carts and trams on a Washington avenue.

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as...

Women are burning piles of weeds in a field, and turning them over with pitchforks.

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

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

Lost 1897 film in which two men argue over the affection of a woman in a café, with their discussion escalating into a fistfight. Widely...

The Argentinian flag waving at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Currently a lost film.

Several young and cheerful children share at Cavancha Beach, while a couple begins to dance a cueca.

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

The first Venezuelan film. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Zulia on 28 January 1897 as the second in a film block of four; the...

Arguably the first film to be produced in Galicia (Spain).

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...

Short film where a Spanish coal factory is filmed.

Second part of the film about people exiting the Church of the Pillar. A few days after shooting 'Salida de misa de doce del Pilar', Jimeno decides...

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

Spanish short film directed by French director Joseph Sellier.

A bunch of people exit the Church of Saint George.