Four men each hold a large slice of watermelon, and have a race to see who can finish eating first. All four move quickly, but one man seems to be...

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

Man and woman dance.

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...

The launching of the ship Varèse in Livourne.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

Passengers travelling in litters in the French protectorate of Annam

Cléo de Merode dancing the gavotte in 1900.

A performance with sound from comedian Jules Moy.

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...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their...

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

People riding on a moving platform / walkway.

3 women dance

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

Sailors row a whaling boat in a medium-tight shot.

Jeanne Chasles and Achille Viscusi dances.

The Prince of Wales reviews Paget's Horse, with black dog following.

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady...

Recovering from a severe illness (likely typhoid), W.K.L. Dickson received word from London that the audience's enthusiasm for the military was...

Woman dances the polka.

Two bad boys enter the kitchen. One climbs to the kitchen table and takes down the old lamp, the other goes to the flour barrel and scoops out some...

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the...

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing...

A short film

Ambulances and British troops crossing the Tugela River over the pontoon bridge near Trichardt's Drift, during the British retreat from Spion Kop in...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to...

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is...

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth...

Uncle Josh returns in this sequel to UNCLE JOSH'S NIGHTMARE. This time he checks into a hotel, presumably to get a better nights rest than he got at...

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...

The magician enters upon a stage, and removing a covering from a small table, shakes it before the audience to show that there is nothing whatever...

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.