Refractomete

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poster Excursion to the Moon
Excursion to the Moon
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.
poster Wonderful Mirrors
Wonderful Mirrors
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…
poster Between Calais and Dover
Between Calais and Dover
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy
A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.
poster Glass Half
Glass Half
(3.5/5)
3mn -
Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...
poster Alcofribas, The Master Magician
Alcofribas, The Master Magician
4mn -
Two men in a cave perform magic.
poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie
Buncoed Stage Johnnie
2mn - Comedy
This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…
poster The Vanishing Lady
The Vanishing Lady
(3.2/5)
1mn - Mystery
Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
poster Flight of the Large Blue Fly
Flight of the Large Blue Fly
1mn - Documentary
Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.
poster The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
(3.2/5)
9mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …
poster Calino's Baptism
Calino's Baptism
4mn - Comedy
A short Calino film.
poster Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
1mn - Documentary
The first X-ray cinematograph film ever taken, shown by Dr. MacIntyre at the London Royal Society (1896 and 1909). X-ray pictures of a frog knee joint, a beating human heart and movements of the stomach.
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
poster Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat
1mn - Comedy
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 Opus III
Opus III
(3.2/5)
3mn - Animation
An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.
poster Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel
Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel
1mn - Documentary
Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.
poster Sightseeing Through Whisky
Sightseeing Through Whisky
6mn - Comedy
John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the site of a ruin where he starts having hallucinations.
poster Return to Reason
Return to Reason
3mn - Drama
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
poster By the Sun's Rays
By the Sun's Rays
11mn - Western, Action
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigati…
poster A Funny Shave
A Funny Shave
2mn - Comedy
A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.
poster Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
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