Byinshi Byarebwaga Umwaka 1897

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

A boy is fishing in a stream when some others see an opportunity for mischief.

Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.

Hiram Maxim shows off his machine gun.

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

A group of kids play in a stream.

From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen...

Short clip of a football match, filmed on the Lumière cinematograph, 33 years before FIFA's 1st World Cup.

The hen house occupies the entire left foreground of the picture, running back to the nearby road. The main foreground is filled with tall grass...

In front of a flour mill, two men fight. One is the miller, and he's swinging a bag of flour in the scuffle. The other is a chimney sweep, and he's...

1897 version of Annabelle Moore performing a serpentine dance.

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...