Most Viewed Year 1900

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

During the terrific storm all of the light craft along the dock front was lifted out of the water and washed up into the streets, many of them being...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to...

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.