Badanaa La Daawaday Sanadka 1903

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is...

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....

Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to...

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges...

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends,...

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the...

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a...

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...