1899 Movies

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 the...

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 Tun...

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

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 pandemonium...

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 p...

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

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 at...

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 cat,...

Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the camera....

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…

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the cl...

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

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

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 Borde...

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

"'Neidert,' of national fame, does stunts on his wheel that are simply wonderful. Makes his bicycle rear up

One of eleven installments of The Dreyfus Affair (L'affaire Dreyfus),a docudrama reconstructing the historical Dreyfus Affair, which was still playin...

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 rise...