It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.

A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window… (film.thedigitalfix.com)

A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog, she lets…

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can’t stop laughing, and every other passenger catches the…

Blowing up dirt….

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.

Silent western

Just as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is testimony to German silent film art, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolises both the birth of the Australian film industry and…

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch’s revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.

A short film about a dirigible.

Two tunnel workers are fighting over the wife of one, who’s also involved with the other. Suddenly an explosion occurs. Instead of fighting, they help each other escape.

Haakon becomes King of Norway.

The Anarchist’s Mother-in-Law premiered on October 23, 1906. It featured director Viggo Larsen as the anarchist and Margrethe Jespersen as his wife. The movie is about a mother-in-law disturbing the…

The proud owner of a new car in 1907 gets behind the wheel for the first time and weaves down the street, hitting everything from lamp-posts to market stalls and…

Alice Guy films the sea.

It’s a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals…

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.

A short story of a Christmas miracle.

A trick film using the reverse effect.

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once that film had been edited…

An early horror treatment of the hero’s encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Departure from S. Mr. King and Mr. President to hunt in Rambouillet.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws…

A comedic short about taking unpleasant medicine.

A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden…

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

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….

A group of carriers leaving a building.

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…

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

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….