Most Viewed Year 1898

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

Photographer tries to take a picture of a ghost, but it won't keep still and then vanishes.

Satan conjures a vision of a girl, for whom an old man signs a pact and is made young. This is a lost film from George Albert Smith

Man dresses up as a woman, and the film is reversed.

Pedestrian and rickshaws traffic on Shijo Kobashi bridge, in Kyoto.

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A man does a practical joke on a chestnut vendor.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.