Most Viewed Year 1900

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

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

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...

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 landlady is taunted by neighborhood kids.

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...

The fairy at a cabbage patch hovers over the babies. This is a remake of Guy's 1896 film on the same subject, this time shot in 35 mm.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

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,...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

With a crowded arena in the background, a stationary camera records a bull charging a picador astride his horse. An attendant on foot throws stones...

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 series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

A man and a child are washing a small dog in a tub, while a large dog is circling around them, barking.