Most Viewed Year 1900

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,...

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...

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

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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...

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

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

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...

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

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

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...

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

A review of the Republican Guard and firemen at Longchamp filmed by the Lumière brothers.

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

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

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

A short film

Characters from a large magic book come to life.