Movies

A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive...

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.

Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The...

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other...

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open...

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

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

A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father...

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

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

Another magic short of Méliès.

A sorceress conjures up a bevy of beauties for a bachelor to peruse.

A movie fragment depicting an archaeological explorer entering a standing sarcophagus.

Two men in a cave perform magic.