A short film depicting a dramatized scene from the Boer War, produced by the Lancashire company Mitchell and Kenyon. The film portrays the rescue of two nurses from impending danger at the hands of Boer soldiers, thanks to the timely arrival of British troops. The filming took place on the outskirts of Blackburn.
Robinson Crusoé, un marin, fait naufrage sur une île. Il rassemble les provisions qu'il peut tirer de l'épave, y compris un chien et un chat, qui sont les seuls autres survivants de la catastrophe. Après avoir essayé en vain de signaler sa présence à un navire qui passait, Robinson construit une cabane.
Lors d'un colloque d'astronomie, le professeur Barbenfouillis propose à ses confrères d'organiser une expédition sur la Lune. Son idée est de s'y faire envoyer à l'aide d'un obus spatial qui sera propulsé au moyen d'un canon géant. Le lancement réussit et les six savants embarqués découvrent que la lune est habitée par une population locale, les Sélénites, et sont faits prisonniers.
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies' , Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography to illustrate the fairy's apparitions, Jack's dream, and the fast growing beanstalk.
An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.
The adventures of D'Artagnan
A sentry is surprised by a bear and is trapped atop his guardhouse, until the timely intervention of a thief distracts the bear.
Le prince Bel Azor s’est fiancé à la princesse Azurine en présence des fées-marraines. Furieuse de ne pas avoir été invitée, une sorcière se venge en faisant enlever la princesse pendant son sommeil. Bel Azor se lance à sa recherche avec l'aide de la fée Aurora… Une féérie en 32 "tableaux" réalisée par Georges Méliès en 1903.
Des bandits réduisent au silence le télégraphe avant de prendre un train d'assaut et de dévaliser ses passagers.
This Gaston Velle movie from 1904 was a fairly venturesome piece of film-making for the era. First, its credits include Jules Verne: his second after the Méliès TRIP TO THE MOON a couple of years earlier. Second, it uses a dozen cuts, irised lenses -- the balloonists' views through their telescope -- panning shots, combined images and tints. The tints were standard for the era, but everything else had to be achieved with great difficulty. In an era when most movies still lasted a minute with a stationary camera and a single set-up, this was pretty much state of the art.
Le film est librement inspiré de la pièce de théâtre éponyme de Jules Verne et Adolphe d'Ennery.
Based loosely on the once-popular nursery rhyme. A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the crowd is watching one of the acts, the titular Tom steals a pig from another little boy and runs off. He tries to hide, but he is chased by the crowd. The pig also proves difficult to control. Tom, the little boy, and the crowd run from place to place.
A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is assigned to commit an act of terror. Based on the play "Vera; or, The Nihilists" by Oscar Wilde.
Un prince désargenté voudrait épouser la fille du Rajah, mais celle-ci est promise à un homme fortuné. Sortant d’une lampe, un bon génie propose de lui venir en aide... Les décors coulissent, les personnages apparaissent, puis disparaissent : une merveille d'escamotages signée Méliès.
A man needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, but finds out that a train will take 17 hours to get there. He decides to go with a man with a special car, who claims that he can get there in just two hours. Complications ensue.
A film adaptation of the play by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey.
A British soldier is made prisoner by a Zulu, who tries to set fire on the Union Jack. A bulldog runs on the rescue terrorizing the Zulu. This allows the soldier to free himself from the rope, to burn the kraal and to save the Union Jack.
A writer of tawdry fiction falls asleep at his desk and dreams of a romantic rivalry-- One likely as familiar to film fans then as it is now-- But things take a turn for the bizarre when our hero is shot in the head. An ambitious and hilarious parody of melodramatic tropes from pioneer Blackton.
Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path. (From a piece of grey cloth over the entrance to the cave, two 8-pointed white stars hang incongruously: the Production company's logo.) A pan hangs from a tripod. A girl in a colorful dress arrives with a Bucovina shepherd dog, and starts dancing in front of the men. First, half of the men go, then the others and the girl leave. Only one man stays, taking care of the food being prepared in the pot. Snivelling from their hiding place, a robber jumps him, and knocks him out with a blow. Three thugs join him, and they take whatever they find in the cave (guns). The dog comes back, and sits a while near the fallen cook. The Arabs return, and are alarmed at the robbery, and the killing of their cook. Meanwhile, somewhere.
En 1868, un monstre mystérieux s'acharne sur les bateaux naviguant dans l'océan Pacifique. Alarmé par ce phénomène, le gouvernement américain arme une frégate. Ned, un fabuleux harponneur, Aronnax, un homme de science et son assistant partent à la recherche du supposé monstre marin...