Most Viewed Year 1904

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes...

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side...

A magic show.

A camera moving forward on an overhead crane gives a traveling view of men working on machinery. Carts carrying parts and pieces of machinery pass by...

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

Melies second attempt at telling the story of Faust. This time out Faust and his love Marguerite are sentenced to Hell where they are showed the...

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

An inquisitor and two of his henchmen burn a woman at the stake. An angel intervenes.

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

As a conjurer awaits an audience, a procession announces the arrival of a royal representative, carried in a sedan chair, to see him. The conjurer...

A magic trick is performed with a long plank with two pots built into it, both with holes in the bottom. Pretty girls are part of the magic.

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and...

The stages that a caterpillar goes through, from larvae to chrysalis, to become a butterfly.

A cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.

Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed...

This is a single camera position film of muscle-flexing exercises by a professional physical culturist. The expansion, contraction, and flexing of...

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.