Genres
147 films in this collection
Collection no. #13933 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician blows bubbles that become floating faces and then women with butterfly wings. After making the tableau disappear, he joins the…
Collection no. #139611 minCharles Kent
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Young lovers flee into a wood where fairies interfere with human affections. A magical herb directs desire toward the wrong people, while a troupe…
Collection no. #14016 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Astronomers travel to the Moon, encounter its inhabitants and return with an unexpected companion. Their capsule lands in the Moon's mouth,…
Collection no. #14091 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
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. #14175 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician constructs a giant tambourine and draws a face that supplies bottles and clothing. The instrument becomes a doorway for levitation and…
Collection no. #14227 minWallace McCutcheon
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
After overeating, a man staggers home and falls into a nightmare. Furniture moves, tiny figures torment him and his bed flies above the city, leaving…
Collection no. #142712 minHarold M. Shaw
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A newsboy escapes his abusive home for a charity outing in the countryside. A story about a distant land captures his imagination, and the prospect…
Collection no. #14351 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A dancer appears to escape the ordinary limits of gravity. The performance becomes an illusion in which the body's relationship to the surrounding…
Collection no. #14363 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Odysseus enters a fantastic island world where Calypso's setting meets the threat of the giant Polyphemus. Mythological adventure becomes a compact…
Collection no. #14372 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician places an impossibly shallow box across two chairs and invites a woman inside. The demonstration becomes stranger as more people enter a…
Collection no. #14383 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician transforms costumes into people and uses a sedan chair to exchange their places. The illusion expands until assistants, carriers and…
Collection no. #14402 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A prankster creates a living statue where a painter is about to give a lesson. When the students arrive, their apparently ideal subject begins moving…
Collection no. #14423 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A figure presented as Doctor Mesmer presides over a theatrical display of dancers and effects. The performance gives more space to the troupe's…
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. #14461 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a dancing boy from an empty paper cylinder. Disappearance and reappearance lead to further transformations, frustrating the…