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1,103 films in this collection
Collection no. #14461 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a dancing boy from an empty paper cylinder. Disappearance and reappearance lead to further transformations, frustrating the…
Collection no. #14482 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Wrestlers transform, flatten and dismantle one another without lasting injury. Bodies that should be broken repeatedly reassemble, turning a physical…
Collection no. #14496 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Airships attack England while an inventor prepares a defensive missile. When a bomb strikes his sweetheart's home, he must interrupt the experiment…
Collection no. #14502 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two music-hall clowns compete for control of the same stage. A mannequin that becomes a dancer offers one performer a spectacular trick, but his…
Collection no. #14512 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Young pranksters surround a sleeping drunk with fireworks taken from a shop. He wakes into an eruption of smoke and noise, unable to understand the…
Collection no. #145316 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An orphaned seamstress is falsely accused of theft and escapes from the city into the countryside. A farming family offers her shelter, but the…
Collection no. #145413 minGilbert Pratt
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two confidence men attempt to deceive a young woman and her father. Their intended victims prove harder to outwit than expected, turning the scheme…
Collection no. #145512 minHal Roach
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A young man wants to ask his sweetheart's father for permission to marry. Guards, trapdoors and office machinery repeatedly throw him out, forcing…
Collection no. #145611 minAlfred J. Goulding
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A modest young man falls for a wealthy woman whose father insists on a noble husband. A visiting card left inside rented evening clothes persuades…
Collection no. #145724 minAlfred J. Goulding
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A woman must live with a husband on an inherited plantation to secure the property. After a hurried marriage, the couple arrives to find ghostly…
Collection no. #145916 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A Confederate officer's visit to his sweetheart attracts pursuing Union soldiers. A poorer young woman, secretly in love with him, puts on his coat…
Collection no. #146014 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An Indigenous community is forced to retreat as white settlers advance. The film presents displacement through the people losing their home, turning…
Collection no. #14612 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A couple fleeing a policeman drives up a building and into the sky. Their car circles celestial bodies before returning to earth, where one more…
Collection no. #14623 minLucien Nonguet
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A dispute over food aboard the battleship Potemkin becomes a mutiny after a sailor is killed. Public mourning in Odessa is followed by bombardment…
Collection no. #146335 minHal Roach
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A nanny takes a neglected child on a holiday trip to meet her childhood sweetheart. Finding her employer on the same train, she leaves the little…
Collection no. #146434 minFred C. Newmeyer
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A hotel bellboy impersonates an aristocrat at a wealthy family's gathering. His boasts about riding are tested by a difficult horse, and he soon…
Collection no. #14681 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An elderly dealer's curiosity shop becomes a place of disturbing apparitions. Objects and figures no longer behave as expected, leaving the…
Collection no. #14711 minRobert W. Paul
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A drunken husband comes home late and faces his irritated wife. She tries to reprimand him while getting him undressed and into bed, turning a…