U più vistu Annu 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won...

A century-old film depicting opium smokers in French Indochina (Vietnam).

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a...

A man demonstrates a human-powered water wheel that irrigates a rice field.

Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives in Constantinople.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

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