1897 Movies

"Sir Hiram Maxim, in person, firing at targets with one of his latest type rapid-fire guns.

A barber creams his customer carelessly and pulls a strop attached to the customer's throat like a snare. He then stirs wildly as the customer's head...

Not much is known about this film except that it was shot with the Cinématographe Joly-Normandin. Presumably produced by Eugène Pirou

Serpentine dance.

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

A group of friends playing tennis.

A battery being set up.

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 wat...

The view represents a street in Paris along which pumps descend drawn by horses; the crowd follows en masse.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

Street bustle.

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)