Bliadhna 1897

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

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

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

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

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.

An old man gets progressively livelier - and drunker - as he downs his bottle of beer. Finally, he cocks a snook - and doesn't bother to uncock it as he continues to drink.

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

Since this is lost the content of the film can only be presumed but it was supposedly depicted a schoolboy smoking his first cigar.

"These four views [cf. Nos. 794 to 797] were taken by riverboat; they represent the most interesting parts of the crossing of Paris. "Panorama of the banks of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower. -Lumiere Catalogue