Genres
147 films in this collection
Collection no. #7861 minJ. Stuart Blackton
1 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
An artist sketches a man's face and adds objects that suddenly seem available outside the paper. Drawing, performance and camera tricks allow him to…
Collection no. #116012 minGeorges Méliès
12 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: zxx.
A penniless troubadour obtains a magical charm from the witch Carabosse by paying with a bag of sand. He hopes to rescue a captive woman, but the…
Collection no. #66712 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A group of astronomers builds a capsule and fires it toward the Moon from an enormous cannon. Their expedition enters a world of theatrical stars,…
Collection no. #76620 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A society of enthusiastic explorers approves an engineer's plan to travel beyond ordinary geographical limits. Their collection of vehicles carries…
Collection no. #8181 minÉmile Cohl
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A drawn figure enters a world where objects refuse to keep their shape. A bottle, a flower and other forms become the raw material for…
Collection no. #8681 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A demon feeds victims into a blazing cauldron in a chamber arranged for supernatural spectacle. The figures rise again as ghostly forms and turn into…
Collection no. #97511 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A young woman marries the wealthy Blue Beard despite the mysterious disappearance of his earlier wives. Before leaving the castle, he gives her a set…
Collection no. #10022 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An experimenter places a living copy of his own head on a laboratory table and inflates it with a pair of bellows. The demonstration works until his…
Collection no. #10491 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A performer steps onto an empty stage and multiplies himself into an entire band. Each copy occupies a chair and plays an instrument while another…
Collection no. #105610 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A car maker promises to take the visiting Belgian king from Paris to Monte Carlo in only two hours. The journey tears through towns and mountains,…
Collection no. #10692 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An Egyptian prince asks a priest to bring his dead wife back to life. The ritual animates a skeleton, which acquires a shroud and begins an…
Collection no. #11069 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An astronomy professor takes his students to observe an eclipse, only to discover a sky governed by desire rather than sober science. The Sun and…
Collection no. #110911 minAlbert Capellani
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A sorcerer leads Aladdin to a hidden lamp whose powers transform the poor young man's prospects. Wealth allows him to marry the princess he loves,…
Collection no. #117321 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An inventor accepts magical pills that promise to make a rapid journey around the world possible. He signs the contract without reading it and…
Collection no. #118013 minGaston Velle
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A farmer wins a hen at a fair and discovers that it lays enormous golden eggs. Behind the apparent good fortune lies a fairy capable of transforming…
Collection no. #11884 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Gulliver encounters worlds in which his own size becomes extraordinary. Among tiny people he towers over his surroundings; among giants the…
Collection no. #12199 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two guests arrive at a hotel where machinery makes luggage, brushes and other objects attend to their needs. Automated service initially seems…
Collection no. #12335 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
The cakewalk moves into an infernal setting populated by dancing devils. Bodies, entrances and stage effects make the fashionable routine part of a…