Alcofribas, The Master Magician (1903)

Toda a história da época de Natal está aqui representado. A cena se abre em uma grande boudoir da casa de um homem aparentemente rico.

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

This is one VIP list you don't want to be on! LA club people have a 'killer' party on a private yacht, except the boat is haunted by the original owner Samantha who died on the maiden voyage.

Magic tricks in a medieval setting.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.

Sentada em um banco de um jardim público, uma menina bebe um pirulito enquanto o pai lê o jornal. Uma senhora chega esperando um feliz acontecimento, acompanhada pelo marido empurrando um carrinho de bebê ocupado pelo mais velho dos futuros irmãos. Tomada por um desejo irresistível, a senhora agarra o doce da criança que imediatamente desata a chorar para desgosto de seu pai. O cavalheiro oferece a devolução do pirulito roubado, mas o pai zangado recusa violentamente dando um tapa no cavalheiro que não pode evitar.

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a letter, on completion of which he rises and takes a razor out he had concealed in his porte-manteau, with which he cuts his throat. The suicide is discovered by the sergeant of the guard and officers.

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into a outlet of Pandemonium.

Primeira versão cinematográfica do clássico de Mary Shelley. O louco Dr. Victor Frankestein cria uma criatura que toma consciência de sua monstruosidade. Frankenstein, um jovem estudante de medicina, tentando criar o ser humano perfeito, cria um monstro disforme. Adoentado com o que fez, Frankenstein é consolado por sua noiva, mas em sua noite de núpcias é visitado pelo monstro. Uma luta sonha, mas o monstro, ao se ver no espelho, fica horrorizado e foge. Mais tarde, ele retorna, entrando no quarto da nova noiva e a encontra sozinha.

The view from a moving train shows some of the Westinghouse interests and the surrounding areas.

Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walks though the streets of Paris.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

Um dos primeiros filmes produzidos no cinema americano, notável como um dos primeiros filmes que apresentou uma narrativa, que contou uma história. O funcionário da estação de trem é assaltado e deixado amarrado por quatro homens, em seguida, eles roubam o trem ameaçando o operador. Eles roubam todo o dinheiro e atiram num passageiro antes de fugir. Uma menina descobre o funcionário amarrado e avisa ao xerife, que sai junto com seus homens à caça dos bandidos. Algumas cópias do filme tem algumas cenas colorizadas a mão.

This film from 1907 is sadly incomplete as it's only available in a two-minute fragment. The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then picks up as the painter goes haywire and sends the assistant into the painting.

A magic show.

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from behind it. The dog becomes a woman, then a masked man appears. The conjurer sits them each on a box a few feet apart: suddenly the woman and man have changed places. The disappearing and the transfers continue in front of a simple backdrop.

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he does not care for, and he is finally given some bottled beer and a glass, but he complains that the glass is too small and he gets a very large sized glass receptacle, into which his wife and maid servant pour the contents of the bottle. As he is about to drink the glass passes from his hand mysteriously, sailing through the room and out of the window to the moon…

Another magic short of Méliès.