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,...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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 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.

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...

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 attackers...

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

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

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

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

A Japanese theatre performance based on a legend.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

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

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

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...