Most Viewed Year 1896

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

“The watchful father disturbs a dream of bliss, and the bucolic lover is taught a lesson. He made a great hit.” (Edison film catalog)

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

A Berlin street scene.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...