The best movies 1897

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).

Passengers disembarking in the port of Nice.

Young girls engage in a pillow fight until it is broken up by the headmistress. A number of young ladies, in their night robes, are having a frolic,...

Two carriages pass by, including that of Bey Ali ibn Husayn, each under escort.

Late 1800s cigarette advertisement produced by Thomas Edison Manufacturing.

Chasseurs Alpins are performing a bayonet assault exercise in four different directions.

This view depicts a scene of a boat rapidly descending onto rails and plunging into a basin filled with water; the passengers then disembark.

Four women perform a series of acrobatic figures and then mime a sword duel in front of two spectators.

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

Patients on stretchers are lifted off a cart and carried toward the shrine at Lourdes.

"Sir Hiram Maxim, in person, firing at targets with one of his latest type rapid-fire guns.

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

Parade of the queen's float, then a second one on which an orchestra plays; carriages follow them.

Roma families eat, drink, dance, and play

Not much is known about this film except that it was shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin. Presumably produced by Eugène Pirou

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

A woman is troubled by a flea. In order to find him, she gradually takes her dresses off.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

Spanish short film directed by French director Joseph Sellier.

Short film where a Spanish coal factory is filmed.

A bunch of people exit the Church of Saint George.