Most Viewed Year 1900 - 1

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair,...

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the...

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

An old lady is seated at a table with her work basket and her cat washing its paws beside her. The old lady makes several attempts to thread a needle...

A cleverly conceived picture of a little boy and girl with building blocks. The little girl has erected a pretty structure, which the boy proceeds to...

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with...

A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

Well did you ever? Two women share juicy stories, and enjoyably shocked reaction, over tea.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.

This building and machinery supplied the electric power and electric light for the entire city of Galveston, including the car system. The building,...

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French...