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 series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

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 monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

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

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

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

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 magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

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

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

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

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...

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...