Boulevard du crépuscule

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

View of the Westminster Bridge.

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

Pedestrian and horse-drawn vehicles traffic, across the Place des Cordeliers, in Lyon.

Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

A rocky sea voyage as reenacted by Georges Méliès.

Early short showing the titular park in around 2 minutes.

Panorama of Constantinople from the river.

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an unstable and inscrutable universe. At a medieval school, an …

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.

One of the last films Georges Méliès made. By now, he was under contract for his former rival Pathé, where he made a few of his most lavish productions, including this one. Here, Méliès performed in front…

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a s…

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

Jumping the Blanket.