1900 Movies

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.

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile...

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by...

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

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

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

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,...

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.

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

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

It is worthy of note that the film can be watched in a shorter amount of time than it takes to to say the film's title.

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 filmma...

The scene opens on a theatrical stage. The magician enters from the wings, and making a bow to the audience, removes his coat and hat and they disappe...

Trick film. A stage magician transforms a woman into a butterfly and himself into a giant bat. This film is considered lost.

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what...