Year 1898

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by...

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and...

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Santa arrives at a house on Christmas Eve to deliver his presents for the children.

A parade in the Vatican.

St. Anthony is tempted by visions of women, including one that is transformed from the image of Jesus Christ Himself!

The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and...

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Scene of the last supper.

In this scene is shown a magician behind an ordinary table, upon which he suddenly and mysteriously causes to appear a large box, into which he...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with...

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.

Two old female mattress makers get into a fight until a passing man attempts to break them up.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

The Reading's [Pennsylvania] pitcher has just let a Newark [New Jersey] batsman walk to first. Our camera is stationed about twenty feet from the...

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating...