Countries
167 films in this collection
Collection no. #11441 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A stage magician produces a boy from a box, divides him into two and then struggles with the results. Bodies become paper, flags and empty space as…
Collection no. #11901 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two burglars climb across a building's rooftops and attack a woman at her window. A policeman follows her cries, only to become caught in the…
Collection no. #12871 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Medieval imagery becomes the setting for a comic display of impossible transformations, including a living head in a vase. Méliès treats the knightly…
Collection no. #15820 minAuguste Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A steam train enters La Ciotat station as travelers wait, step aside and move along the platform. The approaching locomotive and shifting crowd…
Collection no. #15830 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Workers stream through the gates of the Lumière factory in Lyon and disperse into the street. A fixed camera records the end of a working day,…
Collection no. #15840 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A boy interrupts a gardener's work by stepping on his hose. When the puzzled man examines the nozzle, the water suddenly returns. The prank sets off…
Collection no. #15880 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Auguste Lumière and his wife Marguerite feed their baby daughter at a table outdoors. Between spoonfuls, tea and a biscuit, the camera observes the…
Collection no. #15930 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Bathers walk along a jetty, jump into the sea and make their way back to repeat the dive. The fixed view captures bodies meeting waves in a brief…
Collection no. #15940 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A man makes repeated attempts to mount a horse while two companions stand nearby. His awkward approaches turn an ordinary riding exercise into a…
Collection no. #15960 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two blacksmiths work beside an anvil, hammering metal and tending their equipment. A visitor arrives with a bottle and glass, interrupting the labor…
Collection no. #15970 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles cross the Place des Cordeliers in Lyon. The camera stays in one position while the changing traffic supplies a…
Collection no. #15980 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Auguste Lumière holds his daughter Andrée beside a bowl of goldfish. The child reaches into the water while her father supports her, turning a moment…
Collection no. #15990 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A man repeatedly tries to vault onto a blanket held by four companions. Missed jumps, an awkward landing and the holders' movements turn the exercise…
Collection no. #16000 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Soldiers clash during a reconstruction of fighting at Tournavos. Smoke, movement and a compact battlefield set compress a contemporary military event…
Collection no. #16020 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician sets up an empty picture frame and conjures his own portrait inside it. The image comes to life, allowing performer and likeness to meet…
Collection no. #16030 minLouis Lumière
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Three men row a small boat out toward rough water. Women and children watch from the jetty as the boat rises and falls, making the harbor departure a…
Collection no. #16050 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Divers approach the sunken Maine, explore the wreck and raise a recovered body toward the surface. The action presents an imagined underwater view of…
Collection no. #16080 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A conjuror and a dancer perform a rapid chain of appearances, disappearances and transformations. Bodies and costumes change as the stage act becomes…