Most Viewed Year 1899

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Bayley

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Georges Méliès

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A group of riders demonstrate equestrian vaulting, or voltige, on the outskirts of Prague.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Madeleine Koehler

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gordon Highlanders

Spectators on the quayside at Southampton wave farewell as the crowded troopship Roslin Castle moves away to the right of the picture. Large numbers...

Genre: Documentary

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Showing the interior of a dining room of a modest cottage, whereto enter a young couple to partake in their meal, which is being served up by the...

Genre: Fantasy

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[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves), in which Danjuro played opposite Onoe...

Genre: Action

Cast: Danjuro Ichikawa

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Walter R. Booth

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are...

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Also known as The Operation of Dr. Alejandro Posadas. Filmed with early orthochromatic film in the Hospital de Clínicas de la Ciudad in Buenos...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alejandro Posadas

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Circus bears showing their tricks.

Genre: Documentary

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An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army...

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One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Genre: Documentary

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