Most Viewed Year 1900 - 5

A client has trouble listening to the photographer's instructions.

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a...

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

"The Bath" is a flip book remake of After the Ball (Après le Bal) made in the late 1800s.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into...

Directed by Robert W. Paul.

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 woman climbs out of bed and lifts her nightdress to search for a flea. Reconstructed from a late 1800s flip book

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return...

This 10 second fragment is available in flipbook format, otherwise lost.

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,...

An antisemitic comedy in which two Jewish clothiers cut prices until one buys the other's stock.

A man shaves, back to the camera, face reflected in a mirror.

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 magician stuffs eight of his lovely assistants into a barrel.

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little...

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

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

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