"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.
The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese...
A series of fantastical wrestling matches.
The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few...
The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually...
A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020 and believed to have been directed by Georges Méliès.
A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other. The director of this film is not credited in any contemporary catalogues...
Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play...
Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. The...
"Les Fredaines de Pierrette" is the collective name of four short films of 20 meters each ("Arrivée de Pierrette et de Pierrot",...
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...
This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.
A woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book
A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow. "L'Hiver: Danse de la neige" is the fourth and last film of the series DANSE DES SAISONS. "Le...
Lucy, a college student, along with her friends, spend their vacation at her family's home in Hawaii, which includes her pet chimpanzee, Ben....
After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school....
Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
The original Four Horsemen reunite with a new generation of illusionists to take on powerful diamond heiress Veronika Vanderberg, who leads a...
To teach his sheltered grandson about the real world, Madea's foul-mouthed brother Joe takes the college-bound teen on a raucous cross-country road...
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate...
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
