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Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR FR 24 votes

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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 the road becomes the target of opportunity. He falls off his bicycle. He's not hurt, but he rides back the way he came, as the fight continues.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR FR 80 votes

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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 room--beds vanishing and re-appearing, candles exploding, pants flying through the air and his shoes walking away by themselves.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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2 min NO FR FR 69 votes

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Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR XX 5 votes

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

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR FR 75 votes

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

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR FR 84 votes

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This legendary fight was filmed on March 17, 1897, using 63mm film that produced an aspect ratio of about 1.75:1. Using three adjacent cameras, Enoch Rector recorded the entire fight, simultaneously creating the world's first known feature film, as the resulting footage lasted over 90 minutes in length. About a quarter of the film survives today.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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100 min NR US EN 27 votes

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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.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO ES ES 8 votes

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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2 min NO FR FR 1 votes

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontainebleau between Pope Pius VII and Napoleon to discuss the coronation.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR FR 2 votes

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Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR XX 29 votes

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This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary writer, Jean-Paul Marat--who has the notorious distinction of having influenced the Reign of Terror.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO FR FR 12 votes

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1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO US EN 8 votes

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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NO FR

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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NO FR

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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3 min NO AU EN 4 votes

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The famous Seal Rocks at Golden Gate Park are here shown. Sea lions in their wild state are lying on the rocks and swimming and diving in the water.

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year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897 year: 1897

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1 min NO US EN 3 votes