Years
17 films in this collection
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. #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. #124714 minVincent Lorant-Heilbronn
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A series of tableaux follows Columbus from danger at sea to an American landing and a triumphant return to Spain. Courtly favor gives way to disgrace…
Collection no. #13292 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An accused woman and her executioner become the central figures of a supernatural spectacle set during the Inquisition. The historical setting…
Collection no. #13582 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician produces rabbits and assistants from a large trunk, then uses it to exchange people and identities. The container repeatedly changes what…
Collection no. #13893 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A fan maker presents an impossible creation whose decoration becomes a group of living women. The expanding display combines human figures and…
Collection no. #13912 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist draws a succession of faces and transforms himself to match them. Wigs, whiskers and costumes create a rapid sequence of characters before…
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. #14001 minSegundo de Chomón
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Views of Barcelona's parks form a brief portrait of urban leisure spaces. Chomón turns the camera toward an actual city landscape rather than the…
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…
Collection no. #14755 minFerdinand Zecca
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Factory workers strike after their demands for arbitration are rejected. A violent confrontation kills a worker, prompting his wife to attack the…
Collection no. #14828 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A patient dressed as Napoleon escapes from a cell and leads his attendants across a series of obstacles. The pursuit circles back toward 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. #15011 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician places his own head in a glass box and gives his body a replacement. Amused by tormenting the trapped head, he fails to anticipate what…
Collection no. #155913 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An American traveller seeks rest abroad and finds a succession of exhausting mishaps. Seasickness, falls, unwelcome adventures and an energetic…
Collection no. #16902 minEdwin S. Porter
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A tramp steals a railway ticket and intrudes on a newly married couple's journey. His unwelcome attention to the bride brings the groom and train…
Collection no. #16919 minWallace McCutcheon
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A family moves to the suburbs in search of peace and comfort. Domestic mishaps undermine the promise, and an outburst involving broken crockery…