Unyaka 1900

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

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

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

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

Consisting of a single shot, Spiders on a Web is one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography. Made by one of the pioneers of the British film industry, G.A. Smith, this short film details spiders trapped in an enclosure, and despite the title, does not actually feature a web.

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

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

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

A decapitated cook wreaks havoc on the restaurant proprietor.

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 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.

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

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

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

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A man misses his train due to his clothes turning into other types of clothes.

Naval ratings pulling along naval guns during the Boer War.