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Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from...
Chrysanthemums
The scene of the drama is a block of modern flats. Many of the residents are away at a dance, and the janitor and his staff decide upon a...
The Janitor's Tea Party
The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Short trick film
Weird Fantasies
During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade. The film is now attributed to Alice Guy-Blaché by the Gaumont company,...
On the Barricade
Norway's first film, a silent film about a fisherman and his son. The son falls in the water while they are working and disappears in the depths.
The Dangers in a Fisherman’s Life
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser.
The Cigar Box
The story of the life and passion of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of his birth to his ascension into heaven.
Life and Passion of Christ
A vaudeville song catches on and becomes so popular that everybody knows it. At first, those who hear it can't help but sing and dance to it. People...
The Life Cycle of a Song
A Breton enters the cave where the witch performs her magic and asks for advise. At the witch's command, he kisses her and becomes transformed into a...
Le Baiser de la sorcière
A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the...
The Policemen's Little Run
Polichinelle the servant (called Harlequin in the English language version) rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have...
Harlequin's Story
A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.
The Golden Beetle
This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...
The Good Luck of a 'Souse'
An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.
The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
The producer of "brainstorms-while-you-wait" is entertaining his audience with the antics of those under his soporific influence, when the fellow...
The Hypnotist's Revenge
Actuality footage of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II during their August 1907 meeting at Swinemünde (today Świnoujście),...
Wilhelm and Nicholas II Coming Aboard the “Deutschland”
Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America