Years
16 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. #72010 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Joan hears a divine call to defend France and leaves her village despite her family's objections. A succession of large tableaux follows her approach…
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. #12831 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Three diners cannot get through a meal without their furniture and food rebelling. Moving chairs, an expanding tureen and a dancing apparition turn…
Collection no. #12844 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two children fall asleep, and Christmas unfolds through a procession of toys, dancing figures, snowy rooftops and celebrations. The imagined…
Collection no. #13272 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A sleeping ruler is disturbed by a butterfly and drawn into a world of shifting scenery. Moving furniture, threatening creatures and dancing figures…
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. #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. #15870 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A train stops on a narrow railway above the water and begins to reverse. An express emerges from a tunnel ahead, leaving no room to escape. Their…
Collection no. #15950 minArthur Marvin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Sherlock Holmes confronts a burglar who keeps vanishing before he can be caught. Even the stolen bag slips beyond the detective's control. Reasoned…
Collection no. #16070 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A doctor's captive monkey escapes and disrupts both floors of the house. Even its detached tail joins the mayhem, leaving the doctor and housekeeper…
Collection no. #16100 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces women from a row of chairs, combines them into one figure and changes that figure again. His arithmetic operates on bodies,…
Collection no. #16110 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Broken plates send a cook into hiding, but a cupboard door separates his head from his body. The lively head refuses to disappear, and the kitchen…
Collection no. #16210 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Mephistopheles interrupts Faust and Marguerite beside a fireplace, proposing an act Faust refuses. A sudden substitution transforms the confrontation…
Collection no. #16610 minJ. Stuart Blackton
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Workers search wreckage on Broadway in Galveston after the devastating 1900 hurricane. The brief actuality records the scale of the destruction and…
Collection no. #16881 minNo spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Soldiers exchange fire in a compact reconstruction of a Boer War engagement. Smoke and advancing figures present the conflict as a brief battlefield…