1900 Movies

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

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

A group of tambours and dancers in traditional outfits pass the camera.

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

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders...

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

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

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

"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 no...

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

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

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of spee...

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

Uncle Josh returns in this sequel to UNCLE JOSH'S NIGHTMARE. This time he checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he got at h...

Reenactment of a South African battle.

Near the center of this scene we see the regimental surgeon directing the movements of the Ambulance Corps. Tenderly they pick up the unfortunates and...

Characters from a large magic book come to life.