Year 1905

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

The camera platform was on the front of a New York subway train following another train on the same track. Lighting is provided by a specially...

A poor but honest man wins great wealth, and the hand of a beautiful princess, after facing a series of exciting trials in the tunnels and catacombs...

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to...

A soldier attempts to rest at an inn, but his bed plays tricks on him, never giving the poor man a chance to sleep. The inn continues to haunt him...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.

The Melies version of the old Rip Van Winkle tale.

A portrait of the Dam family.

A combination gambling den and bawdy house is set up so that croupiers, patrons, prostitutes, and the owner can quickly change it all into a...

A woman sneaks up behind a seated couple, stabs the woman in the back, and makes an escape.

Felix Mayol performs a song, in colour.

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught...

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...

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

Early Balkan footage.

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early...