A gentleman having lunch at a hostelry experiences all kinds of mishaps.

Jesus appears, the doctors and sages who were engaged in a discussion listen to him amazed by his words of wisdom.

Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the...

Excerpts of a 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Includes views of the uniformed players, the...

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his...

A box of valued jewels is placed inside the tomb of Delphi. A thief breaks into the tomb and steals it, but soon the ghost of Delphi appears and puts...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

Alphonse and Gaston are in an American barber shop. They interrupt business with their exaggerated politeness, and the waiting customers throw them...

Special effects film with a train double exposed on the negative, creating a ghostly image.

Panorama of the port of Algiers.

A fine panoramic view of this busy market on a Friday morning. Immense throngs of people are passing along the stands and making their purchases of...

Inside an operating room, a surgeon performs several procedures of "modern" surgery.

The scene takes place in front of a barrack, where a young soldier is on duty --most laughable and comical

A woman, in her bedroom, is putting her jewelry away. Alarmed by strange noises at her door, she hides behind her bed. A burglar enters the room and...

Shows a bedroom and a man asleep in bed. A burglar cautiously raises the window, climbs in, and proceeds to go through the man's clothes...

It's a very windy day, and the pedestrians passing by the Flatiron Building are having considerable difficulty in keeping their hats from flying off.

Kathryn Osterman was a legitimate actress who worked occasionally in the movies during the first decade and a half of the 20th century. This looks...

A magnificent picture of this boat making a run and starting the water from a least a dozen nozzles at once...

A short film from Peter Elfelt showing Dagmar Hansen.

Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all...

This lost film from Bengali filmmaker Hiralal Sen is sometimes considered the first feature-length film in Indian history. It recorded a full...

An elderly woman is determined to board an omnibus that does not want to stop for her.

Early story film about a girl's dreams

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising...

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

A pretty domestic scene showing the proud father, with the assistance of the nurse and doctor, tying the little one in a towel and weighing it with a...

The Fate of the Artist's Model (1903) shows a young woman and her baby who are abandoned by her artist lover.

A negro woman is washing her three-year-old baby in a tub of water. The child seems to enjoy it until he gets some soapsuds in his eyes, when he...

A pickpocket is caught in the act, and leads the police on a lengthy chase.

Princess Marie (1865-1909), born Princess of Orléans, great granddaughter of the French King Ludvig-Filip (1773-1850), who was king of France...

A 8-chapter ("tableaux") short film that tells the story of a gambler who ends his life on the guillotine.

Turn of the century rugby league.

Military in action.

The steamscow passes a pinnace headed in the other direction, then steams on past the huge paddlewheeler.

A convict escapes from Portland Quarry and is caught in the woods by bloodhounds from Radnage kennels.

The murder scene from the novel 'King of the Detectives'.