Most Viewed Year 1900

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Calvière

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 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

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

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

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

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

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

Genre: Fantasy

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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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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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The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

Genre: Documentary

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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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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

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with...

Genre: History

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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

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to...

Genre: Fantasy

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A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

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"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

Genre: Romance

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The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...

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