Signs the secret language of the universe

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poster The Astronomer's Dream

The Astronomer's Dream

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

poster The Lilliputian Minuet

The Lilliputian Minuet

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.

poster The Mysterious Portrait

The Mysterious Portrait

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

poster The Diabolical Church Window

The Diabolical Church Window

Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by throwing pieces of clothing against a stain-glass church wi…

poster Aah

Aah

146mn - Drama, Romance

At the behest of his father, Raj writes letters to Chandra, a prospective bride. However, unbeknownst to him, it is Neelu, Chandra's sister, who responds to his letters and falls in love with him.

poster The Mysterious Retort

The Mysterious Retort

3mn - Fantasy, Horror

A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.

poster Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

poster The Musgrave Ritual

The Musgrave Ritual

18mn - Mystery, Crime

Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…

poster Leprechauns Gold

Leprechauns Gold

10mn - Animation

A song-filled Noveltoon featuring the antics of the Irish Leprechauns during their annual gold-washing ceremony. It depicts the wee people of Ireland who flavor its traditions with laughs and legend.

poster The Prophetess of Thebes

The Prophetess of Thebes

Partially lost film. One of the kings of ancient Thebes enters the abode of an astrologer and demands that he be told his future. The former utterly refuses to forecast the coming events of his sovereign,…

poster Civilization

Civilization

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commen…

poster Loïe Fuller

Loïe Fuller

2mn - Fantasy, Documentary

This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dance before disappearing into thin air. The dance is mes…

poster The Wrath of the Gods

The Wrath of the Gods

56mn - Romance, Drama

An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.

poster The Atlantis Puzzle

The Atlantis Puzzle

90mn - Documentary, Mystery, History

Revolutionary new translations and scientific discoveries shatter millennia of myth as researchers uncover startling evidence that Plato's Atlantis was not fantasy but historical reality. This groundbreak…

poster A Marriage in the Moon

A Marriage in the Moon

We all have problems in our lives, and in our relationships. But what if the one you love literally lives on a different planet? This is the problem facing the couple in Matrimonio Interplanetario, a char…

poster The Symbol of the Unconquered

The Symbol of the Unconquered

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …

poster Lucretia

Lucretia

10mn - Animation

In an animated film sprinkled with magic and stardust, an impish little girl from Hades turns common assumptions topsy turvy. Lucretia is very curious about Christmas, a subject she has never heard spoken…

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 The Drawing Lesson

The Drawing Lesson

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding the fountain to his liking he goes after his scholars.…

poster The Pest

The Pest

Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates. When an elderly gentleman approaches the two men he us…

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