Genres
592 films in this collection
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,…
Collection no. #14186 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A display of roller skating sets off a chain of imitation and mishaps. The police become part of the joke when objects they confiscate offer…
Collection no. #14193 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A tired traveller tries to get undressed and go to bed. Clothes and objects refuse to behave normally, turning the simplest part of his evening into…
Collection no. #14231 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A mother tries an inventor's machine promising a year's growth in a single hour. The accelerated treatment produces a startling result that turns a…
Collection no. #14332 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician dresses and transforms a mannequin, shifting between an inert figure and the appearance of life. The short presents the tricks directly as…
Collection no. #14341 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist positions a mannequin as a model for his painting. A visitor secretly takes its place, strikes him with a broom and returns the dummy…
Collection no. #14433 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Jupiter tries to summon the Muses, but his thunderbolts first need repairs. Once the arts begin competing for attention, he discovers that…
Collection no. #14443 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Figures in advertising posters come alive when the street is clear. Their flirtations and quarrels spill out of the billboard, until passing…
Collection no. #14452 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician enlarges playing cards and places them on a screen. Their royal figures step out into the room, and one of the apparent characters turns…
Collection no. #14482 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Wrestlers transform, flatten and dismantle one another without lasting injury. Bodies that should be broken repeatedly reassemble, turning a physical…
Collection no. #14502 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two music-hall clowns compete for control of the same stage. A mannequin that becomes a dancer offers one performer a spectacular trick, but his…
Collection no. #14512 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Young pranksters surround a sleeping drunk with fireworks taken from a shop. He wakes into an eruption of smoke and noise, unable to understand the…
Collection no. #14612 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A couple fleeing a policeman drives up a building and into the sky. Their car circles celestial bodies before returning to earth, where one more…
Collection no. #14767 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Encouraged by a friend, a man challenges professional wrestlers at a fair. The bouts become increasingly exaggerated, until his encounter with a much…
Collection no. #14784 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician presents oversized playing cards and a troublesome head that emerges from a crate. The demonstration turns into a chase when an object…
Collection no. #14842 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist draws a woman whose image begins coming to life in separate parts. The act of creation moves beyond a flat drawing and confronts the…
Collection no. #14872 minGaston Velle
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two thieves enter a house through its roof while the owner leaves to summon the police. Rats, ladders and windows complicate the burglary, but the…
Collection no. #14885 minWilly Mullens
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A visitor removes his trousers to keep them dry at the beach and attracts a policeman's attention. His attempt to escape in disguise draws an…