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poster The Untamable Whiskers

The Untamable Whiskers

3mn - Fantasy, Comedy

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.…

poster Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat

Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …

poster The Fugitive Apparitions

The Fugitive Apparitions

A magician makes a woman appear and disappear.

poster The Bewitched Trunk

The Bewitched Trunk

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.

poster The Christmas Angel

The Christmas Angel

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father sends daughter out to beg. Rejected by other beggars, t…

poster The Sick Kitten

The Sick Kitten

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important for being one of the earliest films to cut to a close…

poster A Moonlight Serenade

A Moonlight Serenade

3mn - Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.

poster The Terrible Turkish Executioner

The Terrible Turkish Executioner

In a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into t…

poster Diving Lucy

Diving Lucy

The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding from the water a pair of female legs. They hasten to the…

poster Faust in the Underworld

Faust in the Underworld

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…

poster The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor

The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor

5mn - Drama, Action, Romance

A couple elopes; Her father pursues via motorcar.

poster The Ballet Master's Dream

The Ballet Master's Dream

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…

poster What Happened in the Tunnel

What Happened in the Tunnel

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

poster East Side Urchins Bathing in a Fountain

East Side Urchins Bathing in a Fountain

1mn - Documentary

Shows a number of boys bathing in a fountain on the East Side. While they are at the height of their amusement, which consists of splashing the bystanders and swimming around, a policeman suddenly appears.

poster The Magic Lantern

The Magic Lantern

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…

poster Comical Conjuring

Comical Conjuring

In a room filled with jugglers' properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The servant, believing that he would be comfortable in an armchair, s…

poster William Tell

William Tell

Historical legend composed of five Scenes. 1. William Tell's heroism. 2. The Plot. 3. The Apple. 4. Death of Gessler. 5. The Swiss cheer their Liberator. This popular and interesting legend takes place am…

poster The Messenger Boy's Mistake

The Messenger Boy's Mistake

"Cholly" wishes to call on his best girl and sends her a large bouquet. To find out if the girl really loves him, he sends a note with the messenger boy requesting her to "wear this" if she does. The boy …

Move On

2mn - Documentary

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The pictu…

poster Alcofribas, The Master Magician

Alcofribas, The Master Magician

Two men in a cave perform magic.

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