Most Viewed Year 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are...

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field Marshal) departing England for South Africa on...

“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

Within a printing (printing a test).

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...