Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon....
Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.
A pioneering mountaineering film made by Frank Ormiston-Smith for the Warwick Trading Company in 1902. Ormiston-Smith himself led and filmed an...
Harlequin is walking in a garden with Columbine. As he moves away to the distance and leaves her on her own, Mephisto appears, from inside a well,...
A thrilling incident showing a climber ascending a cleft or chimney by hanging on with his finger tips and pushing his back and knees into opposite...
Pierrot woos Columbine, who abandons Harlequin. An old witch hands Harlequin a magical flute that will make his wishes come true, whenever it is...
1902, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film...
A woman, who tried to smuggle goods under her clothes, is brought to an excise duty office for further inspection.
First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young...
The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.
One of the two oldest known films made in Poland, with the other being The Return of a Merry Fellow, also made in 1902.
A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...
A magician performs various tricks.
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk....
This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place...
Sparkling images of fans and players at an Edwardian fixture at Sheffield's Bramall Lane.
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.
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