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S.S. 'Queen' Loading

1897 • 1 min • United States of America

Shows the S.S. "Queen" at Seattle with an immense crowd of miners crowding the decks of the boat and the docks, carrying aboard baggage, implements, etc. Taken at the height of the excitement and gives a good idea of the vast numbers that started for the gold fields.

13e hussards : arrivée et pied à terre

1897 • 1 min

Fête du jubilé de la reine d'Angleterre : la reine arrivant à Windsor

1897 • 1 min

Short film from (1897)

Arrivée de la garde au palais royal, II

1897 • 1 min

Belfast, exercices de sauvetage

1897 • 1 min • France

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

Liverpool, panorama pris du chemin de fer électrique, IV

1897 • 1 min • France

Caped Mounted Riflemen Passing St Paul's

1897 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Stockholm, entrée de l'exposition

1897 • 1 min • France

A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.

Panorama des rives du Nil, [I]

1897 • 1 min • France

Panoramic view of the banks of the River Nile.

Liverpool, entrée dans Clarence Dock

1897 • 1 min

Clarence Dock

Le cocher endormi

1897 • 1 min • France

Football

1897 • 1 min • France

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

Mort de Robespierre

1897 • 1 min • France

One minute costume drama from the Lumiere company.

Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House

1897 • 1 min

Several members of European Royalty, including the Duke and Duchess of York, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, seated round a tea-table in the grounds of Clarence House.

Kaiser Wilhelm II. beim Besuche der Vulkan-Werft in Stettin am 4. Mai 1897

1897 • 1 min • Germany

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 Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, who walk on the landing stage of the factory site on the occasion of the launch of the transatlantic speed steamer "Kaiser Wilhelm the Great" a group of spectators. In his memoirs Messter has described the motion picture as "the first good close-up of the Emperor."

Strandvägen : panorama

1897 • 1 min

Single Harness Horses

1897 • 1 min • United States of America

Shows ten horses hitched to fashionable carts driven past the judges and grandstand to show their style, action and high-stepping movements. Among the drivers, Charles F. (Fatty ) Bates, the noted whip, shows up very prominently. The horses are all of very high class, and the action is of the very best. The film is clear, sharp and catchy.