All Films

Carnaval, [I]

1897 • 1 min • France

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

Paris, Place de la République

1897 • 1 min • France

The Republic Square in Paris in 1897

The Nanny and the Soldier

1897 • 1 min • France

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

Carnaval, [IV]

1897 • 1 min • France

Several shots of the carnival in Nice, floats and parade costumes, passing along the crowded streets.

Bains sur la Saône

1897 • 1 min • France

Boys diving into a river.

Danseuse de ballet

1897 • 1 min • France

An alternative ballet dance.

Entrée d'une noce à l'église

1897 • 1 min • France

A marriage procession following the bride and her father enter a church.

27ème chasseurs alpins : assaut d'un mur

1897 • 1 min • France

Café Brawl

1897 • 1 min • Spain

Lost 1897 film in which two men argue over the affection of a woman in a café, with their discussion escalating into a fistfight. Widely regarded as the first fiction film made in Spain, the original is now lost. Director Fructuós Gelabert recreated the film in 1952, a version often mistakenly assumed to be the original.

Home Life of a Hungarian Family

1897 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Nothing more novel than this picture could be shown to an American audience. The view was taken in the doorway of a peasant's hovel. The family, in gala attire, from the grandfather down to the baby, are entertaining some visiting friends. Wine is brought forth, visitors treated, and their health drunk by the happy family.

The Rocking Bed

1897 • 2 min • France

Comedy produced by the Lumière brothers society between 1896 and 1897 with unidentified direction.

Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets

1897 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.

Fregoli retroscena ovvero Fregoli donna

1897 • 1 min • Italy

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: Fregoli.

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession

1897 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Various parts of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Battle of the flowers and float parade, I

1897 • 1 min • France

Presents views of a parade in Montreux, including carts and donkeys covered with flowers, horsedrawn floats, bicycles, and people in native dress.

The Village

1897 • 1 min • Sweden

A barber creams his customer carelessly and pulls a strop attached to the customer's throat like a snare. He then stirs wildly as the customer's head is hit, get scratched, and finally rushes up out of the chair. A fight arises.

Le premier cigare

1897 • 2 min • France

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

Chien Caniche Noir Sautant

1897 • 1 min

A black poodle jumping.

Chien, Caniche Noir Descendant et Montant Un Escalier

1897 • 1 min

A black poodle runs up and down steps.

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Taken from Apsley

1897 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Film produced by John Le Couteur for Gaumont, using a 60mm Demeny camera, showing part of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Cirque Miniature

1897 • 2 min

Restored in 2015 in 4K by Cinémathèque française with the support of CNC – Archives Françaises du film, from a hand-coloured 35mm positive nitrates with Lumière perforations.

Espagne : courses de taureaux

1897 • 1 min • France

After a picador tries in vain to bite the bull, several cape passes are performed. Then, the bull gores several horses.

Bal des Sablaises

1897 • 1 min

Large group of couples dancing.

Panorama du casino pris d'un bateau

1897 • 1 min • France

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.