Most Viewed Year 1897

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

“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...

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

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...

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...

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

After launching production in London Dickson traveled to the Continent; the first stop was Paris, where this restaging of a familiar Lumière...

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

Porters carry baskets full of fish, while others carry bundles, on their shoulders, in Yokohama harbor.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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...

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

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

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