Movies

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

Another short of Georges.

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…

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

Two guards bring a sorcerer into the hall of a palace of the time of the Middle Ages. The king who follows them orders the sorcerer to be chained and...

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

Maître Labori is seen approaching the bridge of Rennes in company with Colonel Picquart and M. Gast, Mayor of Rennes. They notice that they are...

The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial.

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

Showing Pygmalion at work in his studio on the statue of Galatea, who, on being completed, comes to life. He attempts to clasp her to his arms, when...

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks...

Showing room at the military prison at Rennes in which Dreyfus the accused is confined. He is visited by his counsel, Maître Labori and...

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

Only 8 surviving seconds of a man getting great pleasure from smoking a cigar.