Most Viewed Year 1898

Soldiers ambush a house. This is Gaumont's version, not to be confused with the less accessible Lumière of the same title from the same year....

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...

During the Alaska gold rush, one way to reach the Klondike was over the Chilkoot Pass. A stationary camera is placed to see a ways down the curving...

This film was shot near the Union Works, San Francisco, California. Great look at the pleasure yacht "Unadilla" with her decks loaded with passengers.

An adaptation of the folk tale.

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...

Scene of the last supper.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop. There is no known director for this film, although the attribution goes either to Georges...

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air. There is no credited director for this film, although three different persons get attributed,...

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...

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

A lost film. Georges Méliès also directed a film entitled Faust aux enfers in 1903 that is frequently confused with this one, but it...

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.