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Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.
The Vanishing Lady
A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...
The Mechanical Butcher
Game of marbles between four or five boys.
Enfants jouant aux billes
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...
Playing Cards
A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.
A Terrible Night
Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....
Sandow
A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.
A Nightmare
In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...
The Haunted Castle
The first travelling shot.
Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau
Five black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.
Negro Street Dancers
Sovereign Nicholas II, Alexandra Feodorovna and President Félix Faure, walking by, followed by their respective escorts.
Cherbourg: Entrée des souverains russes et du président de la République sous le hall
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...
Demolition of a Wall
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.
The Kiss
A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...
The Cabbage-Patch Fairy
Soldiers dancing.
Danse au bivouac
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs her popular serpentine dance routine. She twirls around, and as she does so, she uses her long skirts to create a...
Serpentine Dances by Annabelle
A woman feeds pigeons on the Piazza San Marco in Venice.
Pigeons sur la place Saint-Marc
The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W....
The Boxing Kangaroo
A train arrives at Perrache station. We see the view from aboard the train.
Panorama de l'arrivée en gare de Perrache pris du train
Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.
Aquarium
A shot of a ship that is being unloaded.
Déchargement d’un navire
A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.
Chicago, Grande Roue
A street scene from Spain.
Puerta del Sol
A clip by Gabriel Veyre showing horses galloping at a Mexican festival.
Carga de rurales
Part of a documentary-type projections made in Argentina by Federico Figner.
Vistas de Palermo