The best movies 1897 Pagina 5

"A well-known oriental dancer in a dance du ventre to the music of a Turkish band."

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

A line is shot to the man clinging to the overturned boat. He fastens it to his body using all his fast failing strength. The crew pull him through...

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...

Clarence Dock

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

King Umberto I and Prince Victor Emmanuel, followed by their escort, parade the troops standing at attention.

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

Ainu people, performing a traditional dance, somewhere near Muroran, Hokkaido. A group of women is spot-dancing, while a man circles around them.

An artillery parade in Cairo near Cairo Citadel filmed by Alexandre Promio for the Lumière Brothers. Original title was "Défilé...

Another Edison film shot in San Francisco at the Fisherman's Wharf. Once again the camera is looking down on a group of men doing their jobs.

In front of a cheering crowd, President Félix Faure, surrounded by his escort, salutes as he moves forward.

The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Two boxers miss their punches - until they don't.

Lumière Catalogue No. 706. A moving shot taken from the electric train in Liverpool. Its vantage reveals ships and lumberyards.

The Argentinian flag waving at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. Currently a lost film.