Decades
177 films in this collection
Collection no. #13574 minGeorges Méliès
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A drunken man falls asleep inside an unfinished mattress while its makers take a break. Sewn inside without being noticed, he wakes and turns an…
Collection no. #13582 minGeorges Méliès
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A magician produces rabbits and assistants from a large trunk, then uses it to exchange people and identities. The container repeatedly changes what…
Collection no. #13592 minGeorges Méliès
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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. #137112 minD. W. Griffith
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Two longtime friends working in a mining camp fall for the same woman. Their rivalry threatens to turn violent, until she interrupts their quarrel…
Collection no. #13731 minSegundo de Chomón
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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. #13766 minD. W. Griffith
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A little girl begs in a snowy street while adults pursue their own distractions. A charitable coin left in her shoe draws the attention of a gambler,…
Collection no. #137712 minD. W. Griffith
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Two violin makers love Giannina, whose father offers her hand to the winner of a competition. Rivalry and secret exchanges of instruments place one…
Collection no. #13806 minGeorges Méliès
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Faust and Mephistopheles advance through an infernal world of demons and changing scenery. Their journey unfolds as a succession of theatrical…
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A magician blows bubbles that become floating faces and then women with butterfly wings. After making the tableau disappear, he joins the…