1899 Movies

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 the...

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 p...

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 pandemonium...

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 cat,...

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 Tun...

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 at...

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

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

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

Rowdy patrons visit an Old West saloon.

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

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 cl...

A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.

A bearded man hangs up a wreath and, like any good magician, waves his hands inside of it and under it to show us it's only a wreath…

"An interesting exhibit by Hadji Cheriff, of the original Midway Plaisance. Twirls his rifle over his shoulder, behind back, under leg, both hands and...

Within a printing (printing a test).

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

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

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.