1903 Movies

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with thei...

This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She...

At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon r...

An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx.

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

The story of Jesus Christ, from the proclamation of His Nativity to His Ascension into heaven. Impressive staging and beautiful hand-coloring distingu...

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is important...

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A...

A re-telling of the classic tale of Faust in all of two minutes by French filmmaker Alice Guy.

A traveller is shown to a room in an inn. After a brief dispute with the hostess and a porter, he is left to himself. But strange things begin to happ...

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk...

Pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès performs his cine-magic act.