First of a series of films showing visitors to the Paris Exposition 1900 standing on a mobile wooden platform.

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

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

Woman dances with fan

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

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

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...

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

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

A magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play...

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...

Prince Edward of York, executing the manual of arms with the British flag.

Woman dances the polka.

“The filmmaker took several different scenes shot earlier between 1896 and 1899 and double-printed two sets of images together to create a new...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

A film in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of tasks, from aiming a pistol to performing gymnastics. Kobelkoff was born without...

This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...

“A marvelously clear picture taken from the top of the elevator of the Eiffel Tower during going up and coming down of the car. This wonderful...

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face....

The picture opens with a crowd of Swiss boys and girls dressed in native costumes, marching down the street in this very unique and picturesque...

Showing the attacking forces drawn up in line of battle. They immediately commence firing on the shore batteries. The batteries return the fire with...

In this picture some very remarkable effects are obtained by the reversal of the motion of the negative. A man comes home, somewhat under the...

The scene takes place in a fashionable cafe. A well dressed couple enter, and after a careful perusal of the menu, conclude on an order of boiled...

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...

Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a...

This picture shows thousands of people leaving their seats in the grand stand and going across the parade grounds toward Paris. A very sharp and...

Scenes on an ostrich farm, filmed in Natal during the Boer War.

Shots of waves crashing upon rocks just out of frame.

The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed on 28 May, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne, while on an expedition by The British Astronomical...