Most Viewed Year 1900

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

A man flirts with a milk maid.

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...

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

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...

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...

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

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

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 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.

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and...

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin...

The famous Polytechnic Harriers, one of Britain’s premier athletic clubs, who would later open the 1908 London Olympics, running a paper chase...

Short film about a magician.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.