Cinematic Era: 1897 Vintage

A group of kids play in a stream.

The victim is lying on a trolley car fender. Ambulance drives up and the injured man is removed in a stretcher.

Ten horse-drawn pieces of equipment of the Buffalo Fire Department pass by a stationary camera that looks down a broad avenue as they come toward it...

"A fascinating, up-to-date dancing diversion by four pretty girls in stunning costumes."

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

The scene depicts the well-known episode depicted in a famous painting. Two groups of soldiers follow each other into the room and open fire. A grenade explodes. One of the men falls, wounded. The famous painting in question is by Alphonse de Neuville (1873), entitled Les Dernières Cartouches (The Last Cartridges), depicting one of the most glorious episodes of the day at Bazeilles (September 1, 1870), the defense of the Bourgerie house by a group of French soldiers and officers, led by Commander Lambert and Captain Aubert. There is another unlisted version of this subject in which an intrusive spectator can be seen at the top of the painting.

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

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 block also featured another film from Maracaibo.

Images of Parisian women

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

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

“Another view in which the figures show larger. A springboard furnishes the bathers with much amusement; also a toboggan slide.” (Edison film catalog)

The Spectacular Dancer in five NEW bewildering and sensational dances (#233-237). [This is likely the first of the five from the 1897 Catalogue: Edison and International Photographic Films.]

The scene of the train's arrival and passengers boarding and disembarking.

A man comes in for a shave in this film of a popular stage act.

Queen Elisabeth of Wied, in a carriage escorted by cavalry, followed by King Carol I and Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on horseback, greeted by the crowd.

A group of Japanese, eating dinner, somewhere in Kyoto, Honshu.

One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.

Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Daily practice of life boat crew, showing boat being upset purposely by the men. As these boats are self-righting and self-bailing, the scene is particularly interesting.

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

This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range. What are they seeking? The implication seems to be that they are beggars jumping on a handful of alms tossed onto the spot and the effect is simultaneously funny and sad.

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

The troops ride their horses from the right edge of the frame to the left edge of the frame. It's among the simplest of actualities, since the framing is so square and central that it seems a simple statement of fact.

The film had a skirmish to Firefighters from Havana pulling guard barracks pump, reel and carriage for help, two staircases and fire rising up to the roof, carrying hoses.

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

Patients are conveyed in carriages toward the shrine in Lourdes.

Comedy produced by the Lumière brothers society between 1896 and 1897 with unidentified direction.

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

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

Clarence Dock

Cow herding.

"Two German anglers are fishing, with odd results. One gets a bite, and pulls in a length of stovepipe. The other is so astonished that he falls overboard."

Early short film

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

A shot of traffic, Sainte-Gudule in Bruxelles.

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

Elena of Montenegro and Victor Emmanuel III, followed by their escort.

Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.

A wedding party leave church in this Lumière brothers' short film.

Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R. Gentry.

A man with a walking stick and a large black hat is walking along a narrow path in a garden or park. A large Great Dane is running around him. The hat largely obscures his face, which is only visible for a brief moment. It is possible that this is Otto von Bismarck and his Great Dane, the imperial bitch Rebecca "Beckchen." Since the bitch died in 1897, the photograph must have been taken in 1896 or 1897.

A shot of traffic in front of Palais de la Bourse, Bruxelles.

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are moored in the background."