Most Viewed Year 1899

A fairy godmother magically turns Cinderella's rags to a beautiful dress, and a pumpkin into a coach. Cinderella goes to the ball, where she meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jehanne d'Alcy

The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Méliès

A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Georges Méliès

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Méliès

A knight performs several magic tricks with a disembodied head materialized from a chalkboard drawing.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laura Bayley

Shows the interior of the cell of the Prison Militaire du Cherche-Midi, Paris, where Colonel Henry is confined. He is seated at a table writing a...

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Méliès appears as a court jester (a “triboulet” in French). He pulls 18th century noblemen out of a trunk and arranges them...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

Showing the interior view of the hut in which Dreyfus is confined. The scene takes place at night, showing the moon through the window of the cell....

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The infamous Dreyfus is finally brought before a court martial.

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A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Georges Méliès

During an interval in the proceedings of the court martial, the journalists enter into an animated discussion, resulting in a dispute between Arthur...

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A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Madeleine Koehler

Du Paty de Clam requests Captain Dreyfus to write as he dictates for the purpose of ascertaining whether his handwriting conforms to that of the...

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"In his characterization of Capt. Dreyfus and Emile Zola."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ludwig Amann

A reenactment of a scene inside Devil's Island prison.

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Women bathing in a german bath.

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

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Within a printing (printing a test).

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