Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.

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...

The first travelling shot.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised...

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

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

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink,...

A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.