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….

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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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.

King Edward VII’s coronation ceremony.

Film of Edward VII’s coronation. Appears on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition together on 8 May 1902. They are shown here…

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant’s mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat,…

The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth…

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.