Most Viewed Year 1900 - 1

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

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...

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

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...

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.

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady...

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

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

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,...

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

Butterfly dance.