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1900s Fantasy Movies

Public list by WPS with 10 movies or TV shows/series

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The Brahmin and the Butterfly(1901)

2min
2.7/5 (with 14 votes)

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

Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants(1902)

4min | Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

Georges Méliès' adaptation of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is most distinguished, today, for being a color film of the classic story. Color was rare in 1902 (and many years after) as non-tinted color has to be hand painted on the film; this was an arduous task. Also notable is the film's short running time of approximately five minutes. Much of the original work is not covered, but viewers were expected to be familiar with the story, and enjoy the filmed highlights. There are a couple of scenes missing; according to contemporary reports, Gulliver's shipwreck was certainly included. You can do a lot in a few minutes, as Mr. Méliès includes a re-make of his own "Une partie de cartes" (1896), which already looked like something previously covered by the Lumière Brothers.

The Spider and the Butterfly(1909)

2min | Horror, Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy(1909)

5min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc.

The Tempest(1908)

12min | Fantasy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage Caliban. Then Prospero uses his powers to create a tempest that shipwrecks some of the persons who caused his exile.

Directed by Percy Stow

A Fantastical Meal(1900)

1min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

Satan at Play(1907)

9min | Fantasy, Horror
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

In an unnamed place, his majesty Satan is bored. Despite his servants exertions, nothing can be found to cheer him up.

The Night Before Christmas(1905)

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

The Artist's Dilemma(1901)

2min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to paint her picture. While the artist is executing the work a clown comes from the clock, takes in the situation and begins to make love to the lady. The artist detects him and compels him to desist his love making. He continues to paint. The clown becomes interested and asks the artist to allow him to paint the picture, and begins smearing a whitewash brush over the canvas, when lo, a most perfect image of the young lady appears. The image then steps down from the frame, joins the young lady in the studio, and the figures, each a perfect counterpart of the other begin to dance to the great astonishment of the artist. The clown the by waving his hand causes the figures of the two girls to merge into one. The artist then assumes his seat and awakens from his dream with a great shock.

The Magic Sword(1901)

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and rises to the moon. After disappearing she causes various hob-goblins to haunt the pair, the last of them stealing away the lady while the Knight's back is turned. The Knight, frantic with grief, is suddenly confronted by a Fairy, who presents him with a magical sword, and tells him that he can use it to regain the young woman.

Directed by Walter R. Booth
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