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poster The Mechanical Man
The Mechanical Man
(3.0/5)
80mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however…
poster Linotype: The Film
Linotype: The Film
(3.8/5)
75mn - Documentary
When revolutionary printing technology meets the passionate craftsmen who operated it, a moving tribute emerges to the Linotype machine that transformed global communication and literacy forever. Through …
poster Horse Shoeing
Horse Shoeing
1mn - Documentary, Drama
One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to driv…
poster Long Distance Wireless Photography
Long Distance Wireless Photography
6mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects …
poster Modern Sculptors
Modern Sculptors
5mn - Animation, Fantasy
The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on…
poster Dog Factory
Dog Factory
4mn - Comedy
A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.
poster A Clever Dummy
A Clever Dummy
19mn - Comedy
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
poster Fun in a Bakery Shop
Fun in a Bakery Shop
2mn - Comedy
A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into various faces and shapes. There is some experimental us…
poster The Express Sculptor
The Express Sculptor
4mn - Comedy
A sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.
poster Ateliers de La Ciotat
Ateliers de La Ciotat
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Men working at the shipyards of La Ciotat.
poster The Broken Violin
The Broken Violin
3mn - Drama
If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hopefully one day a complete print will turn up but until…
poster Onesime, Clockmaker
Onesime, Clockmaker
(3.2/5)
8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
poster Nightmare in Wax
Nightmare in Wax
98mn - Horror
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
poster The Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern
5mn - Fantasy
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 Men Boxing
Men Boxing
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster The Yesterday Machine
The Yesterday Machine
(5/5)
85mn - Sci-Fi, Horror
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
poster Scarecrow Pump
Scarecrow Pump
1mn - Comedy
A pump stands outside a farmhouse, just inside a picket fence. A boy comes out of the house and dresses up the pump handle and its post as a scarecrow, so that he can play a practical joke on a drunken ac…
poster The Clockmaker's Dream
The Clockmaker's Dream
2mn - Fantasy
A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know ho…
poster Kamarinskaja
Kamarinskaja
1mn - Documentary
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
poster Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
1mn - Documentary
Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
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