How It Feels to Be Run Over

How It Feels to Be Run Over 1900

6.00

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?

1900

Le policeman

Le policeman 1900

4.00

Comic scenes taken at the Nouveau-Cirque by the two famous clowns Foottit and Chocolat. To separate Foottit and Chocolat who are fighting, their servant brings a policeman to whom the two accomplices play all sorts of tricks.

1900

The Mystic Swing

The Mystic Swing 1900

4.50

The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor. The professor makes another mystic pass and produces a second young lady then in the swing, and also a skeleton.

1900

English Nell

English Nell 1900

1

Scene from the second act of The Prince of Wales Theatre production.

1900

As Seen Through a Telescope

As Seen Through a Telescope 1900

5.39

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 young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men do now?

1900

A Fantastical Meal

A Fantastical Meal 1900

6.26

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

1900

Chaise en bascule

Chaise en bascule 1900

4.70

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

1900

Le duel d'Hamlet

Le duel d'Hamlet 1900

5.28

The movie consists solely of a saber fight. Bernhardt plays a cross-gender Hamlet, and Pierre Magnier is her fellow duelist, Laertes. A few bystanders, in Rennaissance dress, stand off to the right of the screen, and in the background, next to a painted backdrop.

1900

Up-to-Date Spiritualism

Up-to-Date Spiritualism 1900

5.70

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 to his head and shoulders as soon as he takes them off. The chairs, his umbrella, his hat, etc., fly away in different directions and by various methods. (Star Film Catalog)

1900

Uncle Josh's Nightmare

Uncle Josh's Nightmare 1900

4.00

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for its historical, rather than entertainment value.

1900