The best movies 1897 Pagina 7

Officers and soldiers, followed by a military band, parade in front of decorated grandstands.

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are...

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

A vaudeville routine: two denizens of the Bowery dance while under the influence. She's wearing a light dress with a full skirt. He wears a white...

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

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

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

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

Chasseurs Alpins jump over obstacles, taking care to break down their movements.

Surrounded by an escort and preceded by the Prefect, President Félix Faure saluted as he advanced.

Chasseurs Alpins quickly arrive near their packs and immediately begin to equip themselves.

Street bustle.

“A comic subject, clear, bright and characteristic. Shows four girls in their night dresses, engaged in an animated pillow fight. During the...

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

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...

Cadet manoeuvres at the Aarau Children’s Festival (the Maienzug).

A ship in a harbor.

“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...

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