Most Viewed Year 1897 - 26

A man enters and pays homage to the lady standing before him. He turns away, and the lad takes off her clothes and reveals herself as a young man:...

Barber shop skit with Leopoldo Fregoli.

Brief actuality footage showing Queen Victoria's open landau, bearing the Princess of Wales and Princess Christian. The location and filmmaker remain...

First Brazillian film, actuality film showing the Guanabara bay and a fisherman's port. Actually considered to be lost, reaming only 24 frames of the...

The great automobile fire engine on its way to a conflagration, accompanied by hose wagons, etc. A very exciting scene.

Men on field. Boxing. Both wear numbers on back. Large round-hose swings. Several men apparently refereeing. One with striped pants. Possible at west...

On the Coney Island steeple-chase, the wooden horses dash up and down the inclines with weird effect. The picture shows a crowd of people, including...

This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and...

A battalion of Bersaglieri charging, at the double, comes to a full stop; the first line goes down on bended knee, while others remain standing; and...

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

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

Swans getting handled as people watch.

Lost film in which two men discuss in a cafe for the love of a woman. Discussion becomes more heated until they start fist-fighting. Widely...

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

An alternative ballet dance.

An elderly man wearing a silk top hat, mesmerises sparrows –and his audience- in a public square.

“A clever characteristic dance called the 'Yellow Kid.' Very unique. Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is...

Here is a twelve car train dashing along at a high rate of speed. It is seen first in the distance and approaches and then passes by the camera...