Movies

A film, very amusing, showing a countryman with a most tempting dinner before him, which he is unable to touch. The table, the dishes and the chairs...

A woman dances - preserved in flipbook form.

1908 French silent comedy film directed by Georges Méliès, which is currently presumed lost.

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

The film reproduces a magic act Méliès performed at his Paris theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Conjuring...

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

The film poked fun at phrenology—a highly popular 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed a person's skull shape and "bumps" could determine...

1908 French short silent Christmas film by Georges Méliès, which is now presumed lost. The film, combining American ideas about Santa...

A Country school room is first seen in this picture in which so many startling changes take place that the Master is bewildered and is driven mad by...

A Serpentine dance performance, possibly featuring Loie Fuller (though the record is unclear). While the film is lost, there is a new digital version...

A soldier is talking to a woman while sitting on a bench, a man sits on it, and the soldier stands up, causing the bench to tip over and the man...

An artist attempts to touch his model who is playing Venus. Later remade in 1900. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on...

After numerous exhibitions of the black art by the magician, he causes a handsome young woman to appear suspended in the air. She slowly turns until...

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their...

Melies short.

Two cooks fight, one pushing the other into a barrel and pouring a saucepan of liquid over his head. 10 second fragment available in flipbook format,...