Decades
54 films in this collection
Collection no. #10981 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a box from which a hungry Pierrot emerges. A meal appears and vanishes before he can eat, and another transformation makes him a…
Collection no. #11401 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A devil kindles a fire, and a woman rises from a giant pan in flowing white robes. Her dance makes the fabric resemble moving flames before she…
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. #14091 minWalter R. Booth
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A conjurer performs an illusion that sends members of his audience onto the ceiling. The familiar relationship between bodies, gravity and the room…
Collection no. #14711 minRobert W. Paul
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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…
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
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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. #15890 minWilliam Kennedy Dickson
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Three men act out a blacksmith's working routine around an anvil. Hammering gives way to a short drinking break before the work resumes, creating a…
Collection no. #15900 minAlfred Clark
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Mary, Queen of Scots approaches the execution block with attendants beside her. A staged beheading brings the historical tableau to its abrupt…
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
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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…