Vuosi 1897

A fight breaks out between two men in medieval Stockholm, Sweden.

A butcher's crew make sausages from dogs and cats and old boots...

A view taken from Brighton beach on the Channel coast of the transit of Magnus Volk’s amazing seagoing electric railway, long celebrated as one of the world’s more bizarre railway experiments. All aboard for “A Sea Voyage on Wheels!"

From Edison films catalog: A long line of horses, mules and ponies are led, driven and ridden into the yards, where they are sold and distributed.

Silent film directed by Georges Demenÿ for Gaumont. An actual remake of the Lumiére brothers' "Démolition d'un mur" (1896).

Groups of men and women, parading in Interlaken, Switzerland, some of them carrying banners.

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train leaves Jerusalem.

A group of Japanese, eating dinner, somewhere in Kyoto, Honshu.

A robber forces a luckless stroller in the park to remove his hat, coat, waistcoat and trousers.