Miss Mildred Melrose, a well known dancer at the Piccadilly Cabaret demonstrates the "real" Black Bottom dance.

After a visit from a group of children, Santa loads up his sleigh and prepares to deliver presents.

Le Manoir du diable (English: The Haunted Castle) is a three-minute-long French film directed by Georges Méliès. The film contained many traditional pantomime elements and was intentionally meant to amuse people, rather than frighten them. Nonetheless, it...

Marcel Marceau (1923–2007) was a legendary French mime artist, widely regarded as the greatest in the history of pantomime. Born Marcel Mangel in Strasbourg, France, on March 22, 1923, he grew up in a Jewish family during a time of growing turmoil in Euro...

The only known copy of a century-old film about Abraham Lincoln was discovered by an intern at the Historic Film archives in Greenport.

Film archivists are amazed at the quality of film showing Victoria’s 1900 visit.

Cleopatra is a 1917 American silent historical drama film based on H. Rider Haggard's 1889 novel Cleopatra, the 1890 play Cleopatre by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou, and the play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare.

A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results...

A hotel porter tries in his spare time to find out the secrets of the guests in looking through the keyholes of the different rooms. He must see very funny things, judging from his facial expressions. Original title: Par le trou de la serrure

A young girl is given her breakfast of milk and a biscuit by an elderly woman. When her beribboned cart comes up, she shares the meal with her. Later, the cat sticks her paw into a glass of milk and licks it off. Original title: Le déjeuner de minet

On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.

La Maison ensorcelée is a 1908 film by Segundo de Chomón.

Georges Méliès was one of the earliest filmmakers. Often referred to as a cinemagician for his innovative special effects, Méliès invented the stop trick and is also often credited for some of the earliest use of multiple exposures, time-lapse photography...

With a brand-new deck of playing cards in his hand, an elegantly-attired thaumaturge, by fire and the pure power of illusion, transforms a plain nine of spades card into a full-size Queen of Hearts. Starring and Directed by Georges Méliès.

1925 Silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel. The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.