Most Viewed Year 1897

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...

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

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's...

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

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

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

A Japanese family having tea.

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...