The best movies 1897 Pagina 25

1897, directed by Georges Melies.

Market bustle.

A group of friends playing tennis.

Lovers are comically interrupted

Queen Elisabeth of Wied, in a carriage escorted by cavalry, followed by King Carol I and Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on horseback, greeted by...

Three people playing cards.

At first this looks like another of those innumerable fire brigade movies of the era in which you saw the horses charging pellmell out of the...

"Musicians are seated, playing, while the graceful Dolorita dances. It is the Danse-du-Ventre, the famous Oriental muscle dance."

An early French short film.

A legless beggar sits in front of a church. Some people pass him by, others give him some money. Finally a flic demands his permit. The beggar hands...

A shot of a street in Lyon, people passing, horses etc

Small glimpse of Paris city life.

Two lines of workers, pulling a steamroller, somewhere in the streets of Saigon, Vietnam (nowadays, Ho Chi Minh City).

African men dance, sing and play instruments.

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