SILENT F&SF MOVIES ON YOUTUBE 1895-1906

SILENT F&SF MOVIES ON YOUTUBE 1895 - 1906

Voyage A Travers L'Impossible, Georges Méliès, 1904

Part one of a comprehensive listing of all silent movies that are considered fantasy or science fiction and available in some form on YouTube. For details, see the Introduction on Silent F&SF Movies on YouTube 1895-1906. Click here for 1907-1913. Click here for 1914-1919. Click here for 1920-1929.

Abbreviations

d director

p producer

s screenwriter

c cinematographer

se special effects

lp leading players

co- in collaboration

1895

La charcuterie mécanique (The Mechanical Butcher)

0:43

co-d/p Louis Lumière

co-d Auguste Lumière

1896

Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle)

3:18

d/p/s Georges Méliès

1897

Making Sausages, also The End of All Things

0:50

d/p/s/c George A. Smith

Note: Remake of La charcuterie mécanique

The X-Ray Fiend, also X-Rays

0:44

d/s/p/c George A. Smith

lp Tom Green

1898

La lune à un mètre, also The Astronomer's Dream, A Trip to the Moon, and The Man in the Moon

3:30

d/p/s/lp Georges Méliès

Note: Often considered the first true science fiction film

1899

Un bon Lit (A Midnight Episode)

1:02
d/p/s/lp Georges Méliès

[Currently not available]

1901

A la conquête de l'air (The Flying Machine), also A la conquista del aire

0:23

d/s Ferdinand Zecca

Note: fragment

L'homme a la tête en caoutchouc (The India Rubber Head)

2:33

d/p/s Georges Méliès

L'omnibus des toqués blancs et noirs (Off to Bloomingdale Asylum), also Off to Bedlam

0:58
d/p/s Georges Méliès

An Over-Incubated Baby

1:08

d/s Walter R. Booth

p Robert W. Paul

1902

The Twentieth Century Tramp, also Happy Hooligan and His Airship

1:40

d/s/c Edwin S. Porter

p Thomas A. Edison

Note: A remake of A la conquête de l'air

Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)

15:36

d/p Georges Méliès

lp Georges Méliès, Victor Andre, Bluette Bernon, Depierre, Farjaux, Corps de Ballet du Chatelet

1903

Alice in Wonderland

9:32

co-d Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow

Note: Eight of the original twelve minutes restored and partially hand-colored from a heavily damaged print

Le Royaume des fees (Kingdom of the Fairies)

16:45

d/p Georges Méliès

co-s Georges Méliès, Marie-Catherine le Jumel d'Aulnoy

lp Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon

1904

Dog Factory, also Edison's Dog Factory

4:55

d Edwin S. Porter

p Thomas A. Edison

Note: Yet another remake of La charcuterie mécanique. Several lost films also used this surefire gimmick.

Voyage à Travers L'impossible (The Impossible Voyage), also Whirling the Worlds; Voyage Across the Impossible; An Impossible, Journey Through the Impossible

20:26

d/p/s Georges Méliès

lp Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, May de Levergne, Jehanne d'alcy

Note: Based on an 1882 play by Jules Verne and French dramatist Adolphe d'Ennery

1905

Loïe Fuller

1:35

uncredited

Note: Not technically sf but Loïe Fuller was the sensation of the 1900 Paris Worlds Fair as “la fée éléctricité,” the Spirit of Electricity, doing the Serpentine Dance as gels played colored lights over the stretched fabric on her arms. At least a dozen films of her are known, but this one has the best hand-tinted color and the illusion of her appearing and disappearing to open and close the performance; Georges Méliès had filmed a version of this dance, also in hand-tinted color, as La colonne de feu [The Pillar of Fire] in 1899, available on YouTube

Le Raid Paris-Monte Carlo en deux heures (An Adventurous Automobile Trip)

13:11

d/p Georges Méliès

s Victor de Cottens

lp Fernande Albany, Galipaux, Fragson, Jane Ivon, Little Tich, Antoni

Note: Hardy has this as 1904; movie is narrated

1906

Le dirigeable fantastique (Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship), also The Fantastical Airship

2:55

d/p/s Georges Méliès

Note: hand-colored

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend

6:33

co-d Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter

lp Jack Brawn

Note: adapted from Winsor McCay's cartoon strip

L'homme invisible (The Invisible Thief)

8:24

d Ferdinand Zecca

Note: adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man

The '?' Motorist, also The Motorist

2:31

d Walter R. Booth

p Robert WIlliam Paul

Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable (The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil), also The Merry Frolics of Satan

17:32

d/p/s Georges Méliès

Note: Based on a 1905 play, Les Quatre Cents Coups du diable, by Victor de Cottens and Victor Darlay, itself an adaptation of an 1839 play

Voyage autour d'une étoile (Around a Star)

6:06

d Gaston Velle

Links updated July 22, 2023

SILENT F&SF MOVIES ON YOUTUBE 1895 - 1906

Abbreviations

d director

p producer

s screenwriter

c cinematographer

se special effects

lp leading players

co- in collaboration

1895

La charcuterie mécanique (The Mechanical Butcher)

0:43

co-d/p Louis Lumière

co-d Auguste Lumière

1896

Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle)

3:18

d/p/s Georges Méliès

1897

Making Sausages, also The End of All Things

0:50

d/p/s/c George A. Smith

Note: Remake of La charcuterie mécanique

The X-Ray Fiend, also X-Rays

0:44

d/s/p/c George A. Smith

lp Tom Green

1898

La lune à un mètre, also The Astronomer's Dream, A Trip to the Moon, and The Man in the Moon

3:30

d/p/s/lp Georges Méliès

Note: Often considered the first true science fiction film

1899

Un bon Lit (A Midnight Episode) 1:02 d/p/s/lp Georges Méliès [Currently not available]

1901

A la conquête de l'air (The Flying Machine), also A la conquista del aire

0:23

d/s Ferdinand Zecca

Note: fragment

L'homme a la tête en caoutchouc (The India Rubber Head)

2:33

d/p/s Georges Méliès

L'omnibus des toqués blancs et noirs (Off to Bloomingdale Asylum), also Off to Bedlam 0:58 d/p/s Georges Méliès

An Over-Incubated Baby

1:08

d/s Walter R. Booth

p Robert W. Paul

1902

The Twentieth Century Tramp, also Happy Hooligan and His Airship

1:40

d/s/c Edwin S. Porter

p Thomas A. Edison

Note: A remake of A la conquête de l'air

Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)

15:36

d/p Georges Méliès

lp Georges Méliès, Victor Andre, Bluette Bernon, Depierre, Farjaux, Corps de Ballet du Chatelet

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1903

Alice in Wonderland

9:32

co-d Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow

Note: Eight of the original twelve minutes restored and partially hand-colored from a heavily damaged print

Le Royaume des fees (Kingdom of the Fairies)

16:45

d/p Georges Méliès

co-s Georges Méliès, Marie-Catherine le Jumel d'Aulnoy

lp Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon

1904

Dog Factory, also Edison's Dog Factory

4:55

d Edwin S. Porter

p Thomas A. Edison

Note: Yet another remake of La charcuterie mécanique. Several lost films also used this surefire gimmick.

Voyage à Travers L'impossible (The Impossible Voyage), also Whirling the Worlds; Voyage Across the Impossible; An Impossible, Journey Through the Impossible

20:26

d/p/s Georges Méliès

lp Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, May de Levergne, Jehanne d'alcy

Note: Based on an 1882 play by Jules Verne and French dramatist Adolphe d'Ennery

1905

Un bon Lit (A Midnight Episode)

1:02
d/p/s/lp Georges Méliès

[Currently not available]

L'omnibus des toqués blancs et noirs (Off to Bloomingdale Asylum), also Off to Bedlam

0:58
d/p/s Georges Méliès