A group of workers, aided by a steam-roller, are leveling the ground during the construction of the Jonage canal, a diversion of the Rhône river, which was built in order to supply the hydroelectric plant of Cusset.
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Canal de Jonage : machine à damer Trailer
France 19 May 1897
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01 September 1897
Staged assassination from the Lumiere company.
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.
01 January 1897
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.
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.
20 October 1897
The earliest surviving Japanese film showing the martial art of kendo.
21 March 1897
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01 September 1897
A bill poster comes upon a blank wall, and immediately puts up a poster advertising a movie show at one location.
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