Plej Vidataj Jaro 1897

Wintertime in Lyon. About a dozen people, men and women, are having a snowball fight in the middle of a tree-lined street. The cyclist coming along...

A romantic couple are transformed into skeletons via X-Rays. The film combines two very recent innovations: Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in...

Angelic and demonic serpentine dance from dawn of cinema. Hand-colored frame by frame. Lumière no. 765 or 765.1 (colorized, different...

A weary traveler stops at an inn along the way to get a good night's sleep, but his rest is interrupted by odd happenings when he gets to his...

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A man has an encounter with several spooky apparitions in a castle that is evidently owned by the Devil.

Lasting for roughly 50 seconds, it shows the goodbyes of many passersby - first Europeans, then Palestinian Arabs, then Palestinian Jews - as a train...

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

The Flicker Alley DVD "Georges Méliès: Encore New Discoveries (1896-1911)" misidentified a partial hand-colored print of the 1906 film...

Three military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the...

“This film is remarkable in several respects. In the first place, it is full life-size. Secondly, it is the only accurate recent portrait of...

An incident of the Franco-Prussian War. It shows the bombardment of a house at Bazeille. It is the animated reproduction of de Neuville's celebrated...

From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A most amusing and life-like scene, in which a number of young ladies clad in their night robes, are seen...

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Three people playing cards.

George Albert Smith's remake of Georges Méliès - Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle) from 1896. This film is lost or never...

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

A maid is out walking with her young charge when a soldier takes the boy's place.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.