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,...

Two houses being demolished with dynamite in Ordrup Krat.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

A little girl, having lost her mother, finds herself on the street, where apaches (French gopniks) take her under their wing, forcing the orphan to...

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.

King Frederik VIII of Denmark arrives in Berlin, Germany.

In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the...

The first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, running 90 minutes. Directed by Michel Carré, from his own three-act stage pantomime,...

The artist studio is decorated with a rug, a chaise lounge, a small table, a plinth, a couple of copies of classic sculptures, a vase with flowers, a...

A woman enters her sitting room and begins to undress, as she feels a Pulicomorpha crawling under her clothes. Pathé Frères production Nº 1641.

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that...

A sculptor creates several faces in a span of four minutes.

Short trick film

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

After Lucinda do Carmo is abducted from a theatre, the police are on the case. This film is lost.

Norway's first film, a silent film about a fisherman and his son. The son falls in the water while they are working and disappears in the depths.

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...

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...

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...

As a young couple are courting, they are rudely interrupted and split up. The man is seized and is turned over to a gang of toughs who want to hang...

Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoys the customers and destroys the goods and...

A marriage, a fight, a chase and a honeymoon

The opening shows a colored nursemaid in the park with baby carriage, and seated on a bench receives the attention of several smart colored men who...

The first scene preceded by the title: greeting visitors, is taken across a dirt road that runs in front of the Jeffries' home. Approaching the house...

Wonderful trick film about two young girls and their magical barrel. Live animals and superb clothing keep jumping miraculously out of the barrel.

A series of comic mishaps in house boxes at a music hall.

French film starring Max Linder, released in 1907.

Young men playing on a floating platform off the coast of Honolulu.

A young woman and her maid go for a stroll in the park. The maid goes away, and the girl, siting alone in her folding bank, starts feeling the...

Kids in activity, as organized by the F.D.F.

A resounding win for Sunderland in the FA Cup, urged on by an enthusiastic band.

Short comedy

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

A man with a bald head visits a specialist and places an order for an especially strong hair tonic. Late in the evening a messenger is dispatched...

A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

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 metamorphic convict makes his escape.

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