Most Viewed Year 1900

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

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

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

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to...

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

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 landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

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

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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 fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

Kathryn Osterman, the well-known vaudeville comedienne, in a complete exposition of the methods of "making-up" the face for the stage. She shows the...

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

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

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

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 dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.