Most Viewed Year 1900

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,...

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

Footage from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the...

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

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