Yil 1900

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal player sits down, a drummer appears in the second chair, and then likewise moves on to the third chair. In this way, an entire band is soon formed, and is then ready to perform.

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying down they hang up their stockings on the edge of the bed. The picture changes and night appears. We see the housetops of the town and angels are flying about depositing packages in each of the chimneys. (Edison Catalog)

A conjurer (along with two duplicates) conjure up (and then cause to vanish) a beautiful woman head-first.

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmmaker Alice Guy.

In this subject a "comique eccentric" enters the drawing room inhabited by spirits. He tries to take off his coat and hat, but these garments return to his head and shoulders as soon as he takes them off. The chairs, his umbrella, his hat, etc., fly away in different directions and by various methods. (Star Film Catalog)

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

Characters from a large magic book come to life.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

A trio of prankish boarders wreak havoc on their landlady and an intervening policeman.

The picture opens with the Sultan lying down to rest on his luxurious cushioned couch. The scene changes to the grounds around the palace.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A dancer personifying Winter, dances in the snow.