Most Viewed Year 1900

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,...

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

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

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

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...

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.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

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

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

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...

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

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

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

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...

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

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...

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to...

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...