Seznam filmů 1902
Cesta na Měsíc
Šest vědců se vydává na expedici na Měsíc. Cestují v raketě tvaru náboje, vystřelené na Měsíc z obřího kanónu. Po bezpečném přistání se setkávají s Měsíčany, Selenity, poté uniknou před jejich králem a vrátí se na Zemi, kde jsou po …
Le couronnement du roi Édouard VII
King Edward VII's coronation ceremony.
L'Homme mouche
This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment of six pretty maidens. Then, to the astonishment of all, he runs up the wall, dances and …
La Danseuse microscopique
“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 eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after the manner of …
Les trésors de satan
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, who has made his way into the chateau, puts the seven bags in …
Le voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants
Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story. Color was rare in 1902 (and many years after) as non-tinted color has to be hand painted on the …
Delhi Durbar
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.
L'Équilibre impossible
A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.
Hull Fair
The ornate pavilions of cinematographs, boxing booths and menageries at Hull Fair.
Miss Dundee et ses chiens savants
A woman shows off her trained dogs.
Sage-femme de première classe
A wonderful midwife helps a rich couple pick out a baby from her cabbage patch.
La clownesse fantôme
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad in tights. …
Fox terriers et rats
Fox terriers kill rats in an aviary while excited spectators watch on.
La fée printemps
It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.
La Soubrette ingénieuse
The opening of this remarkable and mysterious film brings into view a scene in a parlor, with two servants discussing the easiest way to hang four pictures which are leaning against the wall on the floor. The artful butler suggests …
Danses algériennes 1. Danse des Ouléd-Naïd
A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Algerian belly dancer, and finally Scottish highlanders in kilts performing a jig. Section one is rendered in hand-color.
How They Do Things on the Bowery
Scene Bowery. Young woman drops her handkerchief while passing a Rube. He picks it up and gives it to her. She induces him to go into a side door of a saloon. Second scene, saloon. Rube and woman enter, take …
Les victimes de l'alcoolisme
A happy family is brought to ruin when the father starts drinking.
Éruption volcanique à la Martinique
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 the eruption are plain to be seen. Thousands upon thousands of tons of molten lava, sand, …
Ali - Baba a 40 loupežníků
Dobrodružný příběh na motivy pohádek Tisíce a jedné noci. Ali-Baba je sluhou bohatého pana Cassima. Ten ho jednoho dne pošle na trh, aby mu přivedl otrokyni. Ali-Baba tam objeví krásnou tanečnici Morgianu, avšak sám se do ní bezhlavě zamiluje. Brzy …
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
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.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges Melies' , Porter uses animation, double exposure, and trick photography …
Intervention malencontreuse
A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.
Danse excentrique
"Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, the only extant film in the series), "Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) …
La douche du colonel
A colonel in the military receives an unorthodox shower, an unorthodox shower indeed!
The New Harbour at Goodwich, South Wales
An enormous blast of the rock wall during the development of Fishguard Harbour, in Goodwick.
Danse serpentine
"Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse fantaisiste" (Gaumont #589) or "La Gigue" (Gaumont #590).
La Gigue
"La Gigue" (Gaumont #590) is part of the "Miss Lina Esbrard. Danseuse cosmopolite et serpentine" series of 4 films, and should not be confused with "Danse excentrique" (Gaumont #587), "Danse serpentine" (Gaumont #588, the only extant film in the series), …
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)
Third part in Edison’s “Martinique” trilogy. It shows the shower of ashes and cinders falling upon the stricken city, the boiling water in the harbor, the air laden with smoke and ash dust, the destroyed buildings, the fallen lighthouse, and …