Elephant man

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

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.

Casper is in an African jungle. He frightens a zebra at a watering hole. Wheezy the elephant has a terrible sneezing problem; he sneezes all the feathers off a peacock and a group of monkeys out of their …

Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dange…

Alice and Julius the cat are riding an elephant through the jungle. Julius falls and is nearly eaten by crocodiles but manages to escape nevertheless. Meanwhile, two elephant children are having fun at a …

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

A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

A monkey wreaks havoc on a doctor.

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …

A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand at the opening of the act. He then hurls the…

The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.

A man performs tricks on a theatre stage with a bowler hat and a billiards ball in equilibrium on his arms and body.

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

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 al…

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.