The best movies 1897 Pagina 6

A man trots around on a horse for the camera.

Near a chalet in a cow pasture in the Jura, at Frohburg (Canton of Solothurn), Jenny Lavanchy-Clarke and her children Christine, Henri, and Bertha...

The first Swedish film by photographer Ernest Florman. Kung Oscar II welcomes King Chulalonkorn of Siam, now Thailand, at Logårdstrappan. King...

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.

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

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

A military horseback riding event from 1897.

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in...

Large group of couples dancing.

Uniformed men march in step, in widely spaced ranks of each other.

This Edison short delivers everything the title says. In 24-seconds we see a boat being lowered into the water led by Capt. Joseph Hodgson. The boat...

Lumiere brothers actuality, filmed the 12th of March 1896 in Rome, in front of the Spanish Steps. It shows some couples of Ciociari performing their...

The waterfalls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland, form a cloud of suspended droplets.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

The Martinez sisters performing a spanish dance

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.