Most Viewed Year 1902

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon....

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She...

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment...

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....

A reenactment of a dirigible explosion in Paris.

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

One of the two oldest known films made in Poland, with the other being The Return of a Merry Fellow, also made in 1902.

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès...

Fox terriers kill rats in an aviary while excited spectators watch on.

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

A dissipated looking man is seated at a table with a decanter of whiskey and a glass beside him. A large revolver is on the opposite side of the...

A fire has swept through Durland's Riding Academy in Manhattan. The fire has mostly died down, but firefighters are still at the scene, hosing down...

A businessman makes a luncheon appointment with a young lady, but finds that his wife disapproves of the arrangement.

A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into...