Actuality footage of the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris road trials — a procession of early motor “carriages” (including electric vehicles) filmed on the route, showing cars, drivers, roadside spectators, and the spectacle of the first long-distance motoring trials.
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France 01 March 1897
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1897:
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.
30 November 1897
Man paints 'This house to let' and then the film is reversed.
22 June 1897
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.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1897 Lumière.
