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
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22 June 1897
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“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of the great inventor.
26 April 1897
This street scene from Bethlehem shows a crowd of locals jumping on something in the middle of camera range.
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.
22 June 1897
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1897 George Albert Smith Films.
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