Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the...

A middle-aged man bare chest and wearing trousers, clears a shallow trench in the sand while a young woman draped in a long, flimsy veil looks on....

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

The scene is set on a castle in the mid-18th century. The princess loves a young man from the court, but the king wants her married to an older,...

Stencil-coloured version of Segundo de Chomón's Les roses magiques (1906).

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy...

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he...

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...

Viggo Larsen’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale about the soldier who gets hold of a magic tinderbox capable of calling...

Jim, a robber, is in love with the chief’s bride Clara, who firmly rejects his many advances. In revenge, he snitches on the entire gang of robbers...

A photographer has a studio in which he asks women to pose in the nude or in daring clothes. Then he receives his all-male clientele, to show them...

A hobo on roller skates creates havoc in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

Two contortionists, dressed as devils, invade a kitchen.

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

The opening title card explains that a painter has just finished his work when his assistant comes in and accidentally drinks varnish. The film then...

John, who loves the bottle a little too much, is one of a group of sightseers. Too drunk to follow the party, the reeling drunkard remains on the...

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

"Le Pied de Mouton" is an adaptation of an old French stage play titled "The Talisman" written by Alphonse Martainville and César Ribié. The...

An energetic man steals kisses from passing ladies, until bystanders give chase.

Vesta Victoria Sings 'Poor John'.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his...

A modern days Diana comes to the border of a wood, near a water creek with canes, undresses, and places each clothing item on a tree branch. The...

Dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw.

A man attempts a series of 'trial marriages' with various women, and eventually gives up on marriage altogether.

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

In the midst of the Civil War, a wife saves the day by swapping places with her captured and soon-to-be-executed husband.

Vitagraph short from 1907

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

A tailor falls asleep and dreams that the suit he needs to make is magically completed.

A mix of spectacle, animation and dance, the film reveals an early delight in the potential for creative fun with film form. Its director, Walter R....

Western Justice is a silent Western

A young woman's involuntary head twitch is misinterpreted, as she and her husband are pursued around Paris by an ever-growing group of adoring men.

Leonhard Haskel & Anna Müller-Lincke sing a song.

Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial...

A darkey finds it impossible to keep his feet still whenever he hears the sound of music. Sam is enticed from his home by hearing the sound of mouth...

Medieval legend, a story about marital fidelity of the falsely accused Genevieve towards her husband Siegfried. The story has been adopted in several...

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