Movie History

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

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

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?

A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.

Inspector Juve is tasked to capture the infamous criminal genius Fantômas who, ruthless and particularly elusive, changes his appearance and holds Paris' high society in a crippling grasp.

The Tramp wanders into and disrupts the filming of a go-kart race.

The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.

Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.