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167 films in this collection
Collection no. #13592 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An executioner's display becomes a trick-film spectacle in which severed heads remain disturbingly active. Méliès plays the central role, combining a…
Collection no. #13731 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An ordinary shave becomes a nightmare when a man's mirror fills with grotesque faces. His attempts to deal with the visions turn a familiar morning…
Collection no. #13806 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Faust and Mephistopheles advance through an infernal world of demons and changing scenery. Their journey unfolds as a succession of theatrical…
Collection no. #13827 minLouis Feuillade
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
The Roman emperor Elagabalus presides over a court where pleasure and cruelty meet. His decision to unleash lions on a slave turns the imperial…
Collection no. #13832 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician transforms a skeleton into a woman, then reverses the illusion as his surroundings begin to move. Levitating furniture and multiplying…
Collection no. #13843 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Méliès appears as a magician in a spectacle of transformations, fire and flowing water. Human figures and an enlarged head become elements in an…
Collection no. #13853 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A musketeer becomes the centre of a display in which a circular opening frames an enlarged face. Magical appearances and transformations turn the…
Collection no. #13872 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An inventor celebrates his design for a new airship, then falls asleep beneath the plans. His dream sends the craft into a fantastic sky, where…
Collection no. #13893 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A fan maker presents an impossible creation whose decoration becomes a group of living women. The expanding display combines human figures and…
Collection no. #13902 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A traveller tries to read at an inn, but his candle begins moving and growing beyond control. An attractive apparition emerges from the resulting…
Collection no. #13912 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist draws a succession of faces and transforms himself to match them. Wigs, whiskers and costumes create a rapid sequence of characters before…
Collection no. #13923 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A king orders an elderly sorcerer to be tortured. The prisoner tries to win mercy with a magical performance, but when the monarch remains unmoved,…
Collection no. #13933 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Méliès performs as a conjurer in a brisk series of magical transformations. The camera's cuts and dissolves make the performance move beyond the…
Collection no. #13943 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician blows bubbles that become floating faces and then women with butterfly wings. After making the tableau disappear, he joins the…
Collection no. #14001 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Views of Barcelona's parks form a brief portrait of urban leisure spaces. Chomón turns the camera toward an actual city landscape rather than the…
Collection no. #14016 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Astronomers travel to the Moon, encounter its inhabitants and return with an unexpected companion. Their capsule lands in the Moon's mouth,…
Collection no. #14135 minLucien Nonguet
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
William Tell defies a governor's authority and must shoot an apple from his son's head. The ordeal becomes part of a broader struggle in which the…
Collection no. #14167 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
French policemen attend an English lesson where misunderstood phrases give way to enthusiastic flirtation. A senior officer arrives to restore order,…