A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and Demange,...

A fishing boat is tossed by a rough sea off the coast of Italy.

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

In a square room, two men and two women, in white body-hugging clothes, try on wrestling holds, each with a partner of the same sex.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

Crackers faux shooting and feigning getting shot in the Philippine-american war.

The Buffoons are artists in their line. They tumble in and out of trick doors, disappear and reappear in unexpected places in most unexpected ways....

A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he...

Within a printing (printing a test).

“This is a new negative showing the entire trip from Brooklyn to New York, in which the immense towers stand out clear and distinct against the...

People spill drink on themselves, supposedly after a poker game during the Yukon Gold Rush.

The clown and his automobile enters with great puffs of smoke

“Another exhibition by Prof. Leonidas' troop of cats and dogs. One of the dogs is shown stealing his dinner from the table in his master's absence....

Rowdy patrons visit an Old West saloon.

Kidnapping by Indians is a 1899 British silent short Western film, made by the Mitchell and Kenyon film company, shot in Blackburn, England. It is...

The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.

An excellent picture of this popular excursion boat, taken on the second day of the International Cup Race Oct. 5, 1899. The racing yacht 'Columbia'...

Showing the tapping of the furnace, and the running of the molten metal into the moulds at Elswick yard.

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.