Most Viewed Year 1897

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...

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...

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

A Japanese family having tea.

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

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Another street scene of daily life.

“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...

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

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss...