Most Viewed Year 1897 - 8

Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.

This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...

"Stable door opens and ambulance dashes out into the street. Policeman holds back a furniture van till ambulance passes by."

A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.

An 1897 travelogue of a bullock turning a cog to work a water pump in Egypt. Director/Cinematographer - Henry Short. Made as part of a follow-up...

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

A battalion of Bersaglieri charging, at the double, comes to a full stop; the first line goes down on bended knee, while others remain standing; and...

Children enjoying the seaside.

A magician performs a few tricks.

The scene takes place outside a café. Two workers are desperate to be served drinks, and the owner is forced to call in a policeman, who has...

A fencing match. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu around...