An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes...

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

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

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

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a...

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or...

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera...

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.