The best movies 1897 Pagina 14

Firefighters at work in Belfast.

Japanese actors act out an early martial arts weapons scene.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Taken on the S.P. Railroad, near tunnel No. 9. The train comes rushing out of the tunnel and passes at full speed...

Lumière's documents life in Palestine.

This Edison short takes us to San Jose, CA where we visit the Hotel Vendome (just as the title suggests).

People walking around the campus. The view shows an immense arch in the background through which are seen coming groups of students, some walking,...

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

Dancing in a Harem was an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and...

More 19th century city life.

Ainu people, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido. A group of women is spot-dancing, while a man circles around them.

One reel containing actuality footage of Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street). Some of the earliest known film footage of Ireland.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory.

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

“Shows how a full carload of coal is loaded onto a vessel every thirty seconds at the great Erie Railroad Docks, Cleveland, Ohio. Great clouds...

A shot of traffic, Place de Brouckère in Bruxelles.

The finish and weighing out of a running race with nine starters. Won by the famous Clifford, Sloane up.