Parody of slum tours the posh Parisian circles. A troupe of actors serving the entertainment needs with genuine Apaches’.

Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous burglar to save the life of a child thought to be trapped inside…

Two kids go sightseeing in Bruxelles.

An eccentric man tries to fly.

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée;…

Directed by Alfred Machin.

In 1793, a police officer tries to save the ex-Queen from the guillotine.

The life and temptations of two gold diggers.

The Count of Féredia, ex-officer of the Spanish army and prisoner of war, gains the favors of a young woman whose jealous husband spies relentlessly on their conduct. An adaptation…

Directed by J. Searle Dawley.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the…

Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

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.