Most Viewed Year 1896

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alice Guy-Blaché

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Genre: Drama

Cast: May Irwin

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Georges Méliès

A male lion, right next to bars that are about 6 or 8 inches apart, keenly watches a uniformed zoo attendant toss small morsels of food into the...

Genre: Documentary

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A newlywed couple in front of their wedding-bed after their wedding. The woman undresses in front of her husband. A French erotic short film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louise Willy

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

Genre: Comedy

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Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Auguste Lumière

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

Genre: Documentary

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Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gaston Méliès

The first travelling shot.

Genre: Documentary

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A man has a fantastical nightmare involving, among other things, a grinning malevolent moon.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Georges Méliès

Three men are sitting around a table, two of them playing a game of Écarté. When the game is over, a domestic serves drinks.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alphonse Winckler

Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eugen Sandow

Two girls do one of their chores. Standing alongside a tree-lined farmhouse, two children who are about ten and four years old toss grain to a flock...

Genre: Documentary

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A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Two babies are shown seated next to each other, in high chairs, apparently enjoying themselves. Suddenly one snatches a toy from the other and they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Suzanne Lumière

Genre: Animation

Cast: Rafael Padilla

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

Genre: Western

Cast: Joseph Jefferson

A quarrel between two women that a man attempts to separate.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Auguste Lumière