Although we think of old movies as silent and in black and white, this was rarely the case. When Edison conceived of the movies, he thought they would be synchronized with sound and there were frequent experiments, including a burst of them in 1906-1907. The technical problems were too much until the late 1920s. Likewise, although popular real color had to wait for the invention of the Technicolor monopack in the 1930s, there were frequent attempts to bring color to the movies, both through color photography and through tinting the film -- a laborious process given the number of frames in even a short film, but essayed through techniques including stencils and chemical salts.
This early peep-show picture shows four girls doing a racy dance -- you can see their ankles -- and is in color. They are wearing voluminous, pink outfits. For 1897 it must have been a major production tinting these frames -- they probably hired girls from Currier & Ives.