Most Viewed Year 1900

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Genre: Animation

Cast: J. Stuart Blackton

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Calvière

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecil M. Hepworth

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an...

Genre: Horror

Cast: May Clark

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mr. James

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harold Smith

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Laura Bayley

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

Genre: Fantasy

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A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

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Cast: Georges Méliès

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

Genre: Comedy

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Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

Genre: Documentary

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A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

Genre: Crime

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With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

Genre: Documentary

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A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

Genre: Music

Cast: Miss Lally

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

Genre: Comedy

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