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.

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

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

The story of two sisters and a tragic love affair.

Two contortionists, dressed as devils, invade a kitchen.

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

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

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

An artist settles down on a folding stool right in the middle of the street and starts playing. Soon enough, objects of all sorts are thrown from the...

A short film about a dirigible.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

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

Two clowns perform acrobatic routines with each other, but suddenly start fighting. One of them finds and hides inside a large canvas sack that turns...

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

A soldier with a fur hat hides in a closet.

A professor sprays people with 'galvanic fluid', and unleashes pent-up energy. Displays an early use of over-cranking and under-cranking.

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.

Silent film

An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.

This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching...

Australian bushranger movie. The first filmed version of Rolf Boldrewood's 'Robbery Under Arms' novel.

A footage of an orchestra at Frederiksberg Theater.

The first Child Welfare Day took place 6 May 1904. The goal was to collect money for humanitarian work with children and youth. It was a festive...

Demonstrations through the city on May 1st in Slagelse. The year is unknown.

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

A lady sits down at her make-up table and regards its mirror. Various women appear in the glass, dancing, primping and doing other feminine...

Max has some shoes but they're a bit tight.

The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make...

Behind the elderly husband's back, the lovers kiss and go off together. But is he unaware of their actions. No! So she swears that her husband is mad...

Criminals go on strike in protest at their treatment by the authorities, to the distress of the police and magistrates who find they have nothing to...

The engineer troops build a bridge for the infantry to run across.

King Frederik VIII travels to Iceland in 1907.

The producer of "brainstorms-while-you-wait" is entertaining his audience with the antics of those under his soporific influence, when the fellow...

The police detect a gang of currency counterfeiters and when they go to arrest them they defend themselves by shooting, starting a persecution to the...

Despite what you may read on IMDb and elsewhere, Enrico Caruso does not appear in this film though it was mimed to a recording by Caruso. Mendel’s...

Scenes of men and women parading horses.

Cattle are driven into the sea and tied to a row boat.