Mest set År 1897

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

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...

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

A group of kids play in a stream.

The hen house occupies the entire left foreground of the picture, running back to the nearby road. The main foreground is filled with tall grass...

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the...

Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to...

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.