Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon....
A Trip to the Moon
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès...
Robinson Crusoe
Montserrat
Apparently filmed from just behind the driver, this evocative tour takes in the London Road, the Moor, Pond's Forge, Haymarket and Fargate: a...
Tram Ride Through the City of Sheffield
The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.
Hull Fair
A comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the...
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young...
The Return of a Merry Fellow
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....
Jack and the Beanstalk
Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.
Sheffield United v Bury
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She...
The Little Match Seller
The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth....
The Treasures of Satan
Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic...
Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants
This advertisement shows a happy woman with her bicycle. A man rides up, sweaty from exertion, for his bike is much heavier than the woman's superior...
Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
Fort-de-France : marché
1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
Upset of Bobsleigh Parties Down Steep Hill
A very powerful king gave a great [festivity] in honour of the birth of a princess. He invited all the great dignitaries of his kingdom, as well as...
The Sleeping Beauty
In this film, we show the interior of a doctor's office. A patient enters, and judging from the expression on his face, he is in great pain. The...
Sure Cure for Indigestion
An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Party of Tourists Descending a Ladder
Climber and Guides Camping Out
Ice Work on the Glacier des Bossons
A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.
Midwife to the Upper Class
Choque de trenes
Short documentary by Fructuós Gelabert capturing a religious procession in Barcelona’s Sants neighborhood. Young girls dressed in white...
Procession of the Daughters of Mary from the Parish of Sans
Amenity documentary featuring scenes of visitor interaction with the animals at the Jardín Zoológico Municipal Parque Pereira Rossell,...
Villa Dolores Zoo
El Torneo Militar del 23 en el Club Hipico
A brief recording of Chilean firemen marching through Anibal Pinto square. No known information about the director.
Ejercicio general de Bombas
Plaza de Mayo
