Most Viewed Year 1897 - 30

The Suburban is run at Sheepshead Bay track, Coney Island. Several views of the great race are given. The parade to the post, the start, the finish...

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

A beautiful view of one of the most celebrated spots in the French capital. A magnificent fountain is playing in the background of the picture, and...

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in...

Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo (English: Kids bathing at the lagoon of Maracaibo) is the second Venezuelan film...

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

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

As a train comes to a halt, workers begin to unload the gravel it is transporting.

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds...

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

Showing the Austrian Emperor laying the corner stone of a new military barracks.

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

Shows the discomfiture of those who are seated behind large hats at the theatre.

This picture is very notable from the fact that at the end of the scene, after the run-by of various engines and hose wagons, an engine was forced...

Images of Parisian women

In this 17-second short, a young woman is sitting on a swing and two other women alternate pushing her.