Le plus regardé An 1899

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

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 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...

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...

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…

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...

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

An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army...

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...

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 performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Circus bears showing their tricks.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

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

Showing Committee of Arrangements visit to the Admiral on board the U.S. Cruiser Olympia.

An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.