Most Viewed Year 1899 - 1

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

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

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 train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he...

Genre: Romance

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30 seconds of actual snowball fighting from 1899. A quick glimpse of a time gone by

Genre: Documentary

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The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial.

Genre: Drama

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"Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for...

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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 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

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

A short film

Genre: Documentary

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Within a printing (printing a test).

Genre: Documentary

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A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

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Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yokitsu Ichimura

A sleeping apartment of a friend who retires for the night. The rays of the moon are shining upon the bed through the window. He is suddenly awakened...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

[…] 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

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

Genre: War

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A man digging inside an Egyptian tomb chops up a mummy, then resurrects the woman inside it. This film is presumably lost.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy