Most Viewed Year 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

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A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Georges Méliès

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Bayley

Melies short.

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Sailors clamber up the rigging. Filmed at Portsmouth.

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A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

Genre: Documentary

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A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

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Within a printing (printing a test).

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Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Madeleine Koehler

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

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