Year 1897
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1897
After the Ball
After the Ball5.10 1897 HD
A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.
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1897
Snowball Fight
Snowball Fight6.50 1897 HD
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...
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1897
The X-Ray Fiend
The X-Ray Fiend5.40 1897 HD
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...
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1897
The Hallucinated Alchemist
The Hallucinated Alchemist5.96 1897 HD
The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...
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1897
Serpentine Dance
Serpentine Dance6.50 1897 HD
Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...
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1897
The Haunted Castle
The Haunted Castle5.70 1897 HD
A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.
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1897
Between Calais and Dover
Between Calais and Dover5.36 1897 HD
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
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1897
Signature du traité de Campo-Formio
Signature du traité de Campo-Formio1 1897 HD
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1897
The Bewitched Inn
The Bewitched Inn6.23 1897 HD
A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...
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1897
Serpentine Dance: Loïe Fuller
Serpentine Dance: Loïe Fuller5.30 1897 HD
Loïe Fuller performs a serpentine dance.
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1897
Douche après le bain
Douche après le bain5.00 1897 HD
Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.
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1897
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway
Leaving Jerusalem by Railway6.04 1897 HD
Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...
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1897
The Nanny and the Soldier
The Nanny and the Soldier5.80 1897 HD
A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.
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1897
Making Sausages
Making Sausages4.60 1897 HD
A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...
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1897
Naval Combat in Greece
Naval Combat in Greece5.30 1897 HD
An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...
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1897
Bocal aux poissons rouges
Bocal aux poissons rouges5.10 1897 HD
[…] by shooting the fish in a globular bowl, the Lumières effectively use a fisheye lens, which offers distortions. The history of...
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1897
Washerwomen on the River
Washerwomen on the River5.30 1897 HD
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
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1897
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory5.10 1897 HD
“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...
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1897
Barrage du Nil
Barrage du Nil4.80 1897 HD
Travellers, nomads and salesmen make their way along a dam next to the Nile.
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1897
Leander Sisters
Leander Sisters3.00 1897 HD
“A clever characteristic dance called the 'Yellow Kid.' Very unique. Stage is in the Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal., and the audience is...