01 January 1897 Factual 1 mins
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!"
Watch the official Brighton Seagoing Electric Car 1897 trailer in HD below.
United Kingdom 01 January 1897
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1897:
22 June 1897
20 October 1897
The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.
09 January 1897
A group of Japanese, eating dinner, somewhere in Kyoto, Honshu.
04 April 1897
Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.
31 May 1897
The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film "Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou La cornue infernale" (The Mysterious Retort) as this film, "L'hallucination de l'alchimiste" (An Hallucinated Alchemist) from 1897, which continues to be considered a lost film.
08 March 1897
A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.
30 June 1897
In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle.
01 January 1897
Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.
22 September 1897
Most movie fans know that the first filmmakers liked to shoot trains entering stations. This example by Sussex film pioneer George Albert Smith illustrates why.
Have you watched Brighton Seagoing Electric Car yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1897 George Albert Smith Films.
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