Most Viewed Year 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Bayley

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Georges Méliès

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Madeleine Koehler

Based on Shakespeare's play, Act V, Scene vii: King John is in torment, and his supporters fear that his end is near. As he writhes in agony, he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are...

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Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.

Genre: Documentary

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Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

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[…] A reel was shot of the Noh drama Momiji-gari (Maple Leaf Hunters, or Viewing Scarlet Maple Leaves), in which Danjuro played opposite Onoe...

Genre: Action

Cast: Danjuro Ichikawa

Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A train heads for a tunnel. In one car, a restless man smokes, and a woman is reading on the seat opposite him. In the darkness of the tunnel, he...

Genre: Romance

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During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

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Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

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A long line of nurses pushing carts with their babies enter from the far right, cross a garden in front of the large nursery home, and leave by the...

Genre: Documentary

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Watched by crowds, Sir Redvers Buller, Lady Buller, the Mayor of Southampton and others walk along the gangway leading to the ship towards the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Buller, Sir Redvers (1839-1908)

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won...

Genre: Documentary

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