1902 Movies

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once...

This picture depicts the eruption of the volcano by which over 30,000 souls were hurled into eternity. The numerous explosions which took place during...

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by han...

Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.

King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.

The setting of this fantastic scene represents the hall of an old chateau in which a miser has locked up seven large bags containing his wealth. Satan...

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story. Color w...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowi...

A very clever and interesting picture. A family group composed of grandpa, mamma and several children are seen about a library table. One of the littl...

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She l...

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the e...

A policeman is run over by an automobile

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene.

View from the train front as it travels west through the station, Wales, UK. River Dee is on the left.

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confuse...

A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!