1900 Movies

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return t...

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile...

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Here is another view on the Bund, with The Garden on the left, with its high arched conservatory. As in the former scene, the peculiar wheelbarrows pr...

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished...

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a y...

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play perfo...