Preparation for the Rendezvous
A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.
Laughing Gas
Engineers Excavate Skandser and Set Off Blasts
Blowing up dirt….
The Gipsy’s Warning
The Tunnel Workers
King Haakon’s Coronation in Trondheim
Les débuts d’un chauffeur
The Consequences of Feminism
Miracle de Noël
Marvellous Reversing
Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus
Départ de S. M. le Roi et de M. le Président pour la chasse à Rambouillet
Departure from S. Mr. King and Mr. President to hunt in Rambouillet.
The Coronation of King Peter I of Serbia
Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.
The Bewitched Traveller
Mr. Pecksniff Fetches the Doctor
The Good Purge
A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out
A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden…
Move On
In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving….
Carriers Leaving Building, U.S.P.O.
A group of carriers leaving a building.
Carriers at Work, U.S.P.O.
A couple of guys sort letters into pigeon-holes, another empties sacks of post and stamps the letters before passing them to a portly chap who is undoubtedly the star of…
Marvellous Wreath
Spider and the Fly
A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of her….
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally…
Le gendarme et les domestiques
Two housemaids, arguing, start to fight : a houseboy steps in to separate them, and in doing so becomes their target and is literally torn apart. Alarmed by the quarrel,…
The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)
Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the…
The Mysterious Box
As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a…
Bradford Coronation Procession
When Edward VII was crowned, it was a time of great confidence and pride in the British Empire, as shown here by the extravagant and sometimes exotic horse-drawn floats.
The Coronation of Edward VII
Edward VII’s Coronation
Film of Edward VII’s coronation. Appears on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.