Decades
177 films in this collection
Collection no. #16391 minNo spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two women perform a boxing exhibition before a painted outdoor backdrop. The camera records their sparring as a compact display of speed, movement…
Collection no. #16405 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A sorcerer emerges from a painting and conjures an egg that grows to an impossible size. Its shell becomes equipment for further tricks, producing…
Collection no. #16423 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Three staged episodes depict resistance during the siege of Zaragoza: a defended room, a contested barricade and a woman taking charge of a cannon.…
Collection no. #16471 minWilliam Kennedy Dickson
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Alberto Santos-Dumont gestures while speaking with Charles Rolls during a visit to London. The silent sequence preserves a meeting between the…
Collection no. #16605 minD. W. Griffith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Marion and Henry quarrel over a photograph and part company. Years later, his illness prompts a letter that she initially treats lightly, until a…
Collection no. #16610 minJ. Stuart Blackton
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Workers search wreckage on Broadway in Galveston after the devastating 1900 hurricane. The brief actuality records the scale of the destruction and…
Collection no. #16621 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Women enter a saloon and attack its bottles and fittings, provoking a struggle with the bartender. A policeman intervenes in the staged confrontation.
Collection no. #16861 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A sleeping artist dreams of a woman emerging from a clock to pose for a painting. A mischievous clown interferes, making the portrait and its models…
Collection no. #16871 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A mourning figure sits beneath images of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley. A concluding tableau places an assassin before…
Collection no. #16881 minNo spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Soldiers exchange fire in a compact reconstruction of a Boer War engagement. Smoke and advancing figures present the conflict as a brief battlefield…
Collection no. #16898 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A captured pickpocket repeatedly slips out of police custody through impossible transformations. Vanishing acts, a flying bicycle and a change into a…
Collection no. #16902 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A tramp steals a railway ticket and intrudes on a newly married couple's journey. His unwelcome attention to the bride brings the groom and train…
Collection no. #16919 minWallace McCutcheon
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A family moves to the suburbs in search of peace and comfort. Domestic mishaps undermine the promise, and an outburst involving broken crockery…
Collection no. #170510 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A wealthy woman steals goods from a department store, while a poor mother takes bread to feed her children. Both reach the same court, where social…
Collection no. #170711 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A railway worker's daughter discovers a plan to derail the train driven by the man she loves. After escaping the plotters, she warns him, only to…