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...

A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.

Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack....

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are...

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs high above the ground. When one of the workers,...

An artist is painting the portrait of a young woman dressed in a country costume in his attic studio. The landlord demands the rent, but the artist...

A basket of flowers appears and moves by itself to the middle of a decorative arch. From the basket, a woman magician appears. From a cylinder, the...

A male and female clown drink, smoke, and flirt in this early Kinemacolor short.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by...

An evil magician visits the rajah's palace to perform his magic tricks, but he also steals a valuable casket making his getaway aboard a dragon. The...

Modern Americans think that the movies learned to talk in 1927 when Al Jolson opened his mouth in THE JAZZ SINGER, but sound pictures had a much...

The shift of the crown was paralleled by a new epoch of cinema in Denmark. Peter Elfelt had been the dominant figure in early Danish film. After some...

An old man, bell ringer at Notre Dame de Paris, disowns his daughter who has an affair with a young frivolous gentleman.

Crooks in an armored car-- the modern-day pirates-- trespass, murder and rob other motorists while sailing the roadways. Able to traverse small...

With contraband strapped to the backs of their dogs, smugglers set off to cross the Spanish-French border. Having been spied upon and betrayed to...

An army of kitchen maids go on strike and take down all the men who come in their path.

Child prank causes chase for few ballons and one lady's wig

Short film about a dreaming musician

A bunch of people run an obstacle course all around town.

A fisherman's dreams come through in sentcilcolor, featuring deep sea fairies, puppet seahorses, a bug-eyed octopus, and a colossal starfish. Zecca...

A family living in poverty, in a tiny house with no furniture. When mama goes to sleep, the youngsters head out to rustle up some firewood....

It's common knowledge that Scotsmen are macho enough to pull off wearing a skirt - perhaps it's all that caber-tossing. This disarmingly simple film...

A man hides in a couch and is transported in it while causing havoc.

Her husband goes away on a business trip. Her lover appears. However, before they can begin their affair, there is a knock on the door. He hides in a...

A farmer facing foreclosure goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins he goes back to the country in an expensive car and...

The camera scrolls through a landscape to reveal the aftermath of a huge gas explosion.

A drunken man gets into a fight with everyone he meets.

At the racetrack.

A criminal gang descends into the sewers of Paris and uses an interior exit to get their hands on a safe. They move it out of town, where they work...

A film on a charming, 'unofficial' subject - authentic ethnographic record or exotica for western eyes?

A man gives away an inherited hat, then finds it contains a will.

A car crash blows a lady with a parasol onto a steeple. An inventor with an airship comes to the rescue.

A short clip showing Holger Drachmann.

The proclamation was performed on 30 January 1906 by Prime Minister Jens Christian Christensen (1856-1930). At age 63, Frederik finally became king....

Haakon becomes King of Norway.

This Walter G. Chase film about epileptic seizures was photographed from a single camera position against a backdrop of dark canvas.

A trip through Vienna on a tram.

People traveling by horse carriage to a party.

Catalogue in "The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company," by Anthony Slide & Alan Gevinson, 1987.