Badanaa La Daawaday Sanadka 1900

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

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,...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

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

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

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...

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they...

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...

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.

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

A landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...

During the terrific storm all of the light craft along the dock front was lifted out of the water and washed up into the streets, many of them being...

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...

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

A group of people cross a mountain near Chamonix and are filmed doing so by the Lumière brothers.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.