Most Viewed Year 1897

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...

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

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...

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

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

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never...

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.

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

A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

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

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

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

A group of kids play in a stream.

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

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.

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