Most Viewed Year 1897

Mephistopheles demands that Faust kill Marguerite.

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

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...

“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...

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...

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:...

A Japanese family having tea.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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

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

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

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

Taken at the docks of the Pacific Steamship Co., San Francisco, Cal., which is operated in connection with the Southern Pacific Railroad Co...

From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen...

Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men...

The victim is lying on a trolley car fender. Ambulance drives up and the injured man is removed in a stretcher.