Most Viewed Year 1905 - 13

The apprentice at a pastry shop is more interested in playing tricks on people than sweeping the pavement in front of the shop; more interested in...

It's Christmas time, so it's obligatory to give a gift to everyone, even the guy who's paid to do a job, and often paid very well. It's a yearly...

A gentleman returns to his home office to find that the porter is smoking his cigars and has the housemaid on his knee.

A poacher eludes a gendarme with the help of some trick photography.

A woman confessing her sins to a priest who gets more and more excited.

"It is the eternal story of marriage where at first you swear to love each other forever (honeymoon). Then, as the years pass, habit and indifference...

A young girl and boy both in 18th century clothes and wigs bow to each other before a table covered with yellow cut flowers. The boy awards a flower...

For the last time the landlord calls upon the artist lodger for his rent and threatens to sell him up unless paid that day. No sooner has he gone...

A gentleman sits down and sees the prospective brides. They are all beautiful of face and form, and each carries a scroll on which her dowry is...

Documentary images from a market in Falkenberg.

A trick film by Gaston Velle

The film shows an unusual type of railroad car designed to go over or under an oncoming car instead of around it, as conventional railroad cars must...

Hangman brings criminal to gallows, places hood on head, priest prays.

Several shots of a manned kite-glider at Brighton Beach.

Renowned market leader Pathé Frères was specialized in filming elaborate Biblical stories. Here the life of Moses is told in six scenes.

A keen Scots golfer wrecks his host's house.

A lawyer passionately pleads for his criminal client.

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.

A Christmas goose is brought back to life by an electric shock machine. This film is considered lost.

In Yunnan, at the end of the Qing dynasty, Auguste François, consul, photographer and amateur ethnographer documents, thanks to a camera...