Years
10 films in this collection
Collection no. #13992 minWilliam Kennedy Dickson
2 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: zxx.
Pope Leo XIII appears in the Vatican gardens and gives his blessing to the camera. Three views record the elderly pontiff in an early encounter…
Collection no. #9981 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician removes his head, sets it on a table and immediately grows another. Soon several copies of his head are performing alongside him, turning…
Collection no. #9993 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An astronomer's study becomes a place of unruly fantasy when the Moon approaches close enough to swallow his telescope. Clowns, celestial figures and…
Collection no. #10481 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A clown prepares a William Tell mannequin for target practice, setting fruit on its head. Before he can take aim, the supposed prop comes alive and…
Collection no. #10711 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Saint Anthony's prayers are interrupted by visions that make the objects in his cave unstable. Women appear where devotional images and a skull had…
Collection no. #10981 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces a box from which a hungry Pierrot emerges. A meal appears and vanishes before he can eat, and another transformation makes him a…
Collection no. #11441 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A stage magician produces a boy from a box, divides him into two and then struggles with the results. Bodies become paper, flags and empty space as…
Collection no. #16050 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Divers approach the sunken Maine, explore the wreck and raise a recovered body toward the surface. The action presents an imagined underwater view of…
Collection no. #16160 minRobert W. Paul
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Passengers ride the rises and dips of a fairground railway at Alexandra Palace. Robert W. Paul's camera follows the movement within a fixed…
Collection no. #16170 minWilliam Selig
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown hold hands, exchange kisses and playfully negotiate an embrace. Their relaxed interaction gives this brief scene an…