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The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Ben Hur
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...
The Prophetess of Thebes
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...
Sightseeing Through Whisky
As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy...
That Fatal Sneeze
The artist studio is decorated with a rug, a chaise lounge, a small table, a plinth, a couple of copies of classic sculptures, a vase with flowers, a...
The Sculptor's Dream
Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.
Alice Guy Films a 'Phonoscène' in the Studio at Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...
Ali Barbouyou and Ali Bouf, In Oil
In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the...
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon
A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.
The Bewitched House
A piano entices anyone who comes near.
The Irresistible Piano
The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room,...
Satan in Prison
A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.
The Dancing Pig
A short film about a dirigible.
The Dirigible 'Homeland'
A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...
The 'Teddy' Bears
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the...
Kiri-Kis
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...
Wonderful Mirrors
A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.
The Golden Beetle
It is an early example of the rural melodramas that were going to be popular in Spain, with situations that Bunuel will enjoy subverting. The outside...
The Village Blind Man
A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.
The Haunted Hotel
The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Early slapstick short from Louis Feuillade involving runaways, except that, instead of it being a runaway horse (see Griffith's THE CURTAIN POLE for...
The Pumpkin Race
The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...
In the Bogie Man's Cave
The Scream of Dolores, or The Independence of Mexico