Explore the collection
1,103 films in this collection
Collection no. #14231 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A mother tries an inventor's machine promising a year's growth in a single hour. The accelerated treatment produces a startling result that turns a…
Collection no. #14247 minJ. Searle Dawley
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An eagle carries a baby from outside a woodland home to its nest on a cliff. The child's father descends on a rope to attempt a rescue while the bird…
Collection no. #142513 minAlice Guy-Blaché
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A woman invents an inheritance that her fiancé can claim only by marrying before noon. As he desperately proposes to strangers, she races to reach…
Collection no. #142623 minHal Roach
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two rivals compete to obtain permission for a young woman's balloon ride. One runs to her mother's house while the other battles crowded telephone…
Collection no. #142712 minHarold M. Shaw
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A newsboy escapes his abusive home for a charity outing in the countryside. A story about a distant land captures his imagination, and the prospect…
Collection no. #143212 minGeorge Nichols
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A reluctant rescue earns a timid man a place on the police force. His new uniform impresses his girlfriend, but street fights and mischievous…
Collection no. #14332 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician dresses and transforms a mannequin, shifting between an inert figure and the appearance of life. The short presents the tricks directly as…
Collection no. #14341 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist positions a mannequin as a model for his painting. A visitor secretly takes its place, strikes him with a broom and returns the dummy…
Collection no. #14351 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A dancer appears to escape the ordinary limits of gravity. The performance becomes an illusion in which the body's relationship to the surrounding…
Collection no. #14363 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Odysseus enters a fantastic island world where Calypso's setting meets the threat of the giant Polyphemus. Mythological adventure becomes a compact…
Collection no. #14372 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician places an impossibly shallow box across two chairs and invites a woman inside. The demonstration becomes stranger as more people enter a…
Collection no. #14383 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician transforms costumes into people and uses a sedan chair to exchange their places. The illusion expands until assistants, carriers and…
Collection no. #14402 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A prankster creates a living statue where a painter is about to give a lesson. When the students arrive, their apparently ideal subject begins moving…
Collection no. #144110 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A man protects a young woman from a thug, who retaliates by kidnapping him. She gathers neighbours to follow the attackers into the mountains, where…
Collection no. #14423 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A figure presented as Doctor Mesmer presides over a theatrical display of dancers and effects. The performance gives more space to the troupe's…
Collection no. #14433 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Jupiter tries to summon the Muses, but his thunderbolts first need repairs. Once the arts begin competing for attention, he discovers that…
Collection no. #14443 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Figures in advertising posters come alive when the street is clear. Their flirtations and quarrels spill out of the billboard, until passing…
Collection no. #14452 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician enlarges playing cards and places them on a screen. Their royal figures step out into the room, and one of the apparent characters turns…