Turks' Hearing Speech on Hürriyet 1908
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.
Crime drama involving an Irish couple immigrating to America
As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then stand in a position where they cannot be seen from the sidewalk. When an attractive woman walks past them, the two men follow her. Sensing that they have bad intentions, the newsboy follows them to see what they are up to. When his suspicions are confirmed, he tries to come up with a plan to protect the woman.
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
A trip from Stockholm to Gothenburg by two canals.
A gorilla escapes from its master on a ship, breaks into a young woman's home, and kills her. The woman's fiancé, Jim, who had visited earlier, is framed for the murder by the police. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes reads about the case, investigates, and uses his deductive reasoning (playing the violin, finding the gorilla). Holmes exposes the real killer (the gorilla and its master) and frees Jim just before he's convicted, revealing the true sequence of events in court.
Fairy-tale adaptation.
The King has the archbishop murdered, then repents.
This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give some flowers to a stage star but a prankster instead gives them to an obese cleaning woman.
A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After performing many unique tricks they disappear into space, and are replaced by a group of knives and forks, pans, kettles and spoons. (Moving Picture World)
A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.
Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him.
A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter wanders off, attracted by the music from a pair of gypsies performing in the street. When the gypsies move on, they take the young girl with her. As soon as the parents realize that their daughter is gone, they begin a frantic search, assisted by the family's loyal dog.
A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family. The film is currently presumed lost.
A girl walking in the woods is captured by an evil dwarf. He takes her home and forces her to keep house for him. Thanks to a beautiful fairy and the mice she takes care of, she escapes.
During an effort to repair a horse carriage a boy grabs the wheel and gives it a push down the hill and towards the city. The wheel turns and turns and causes one accident after the other until everybody runs after it to stop the mayhem. Bizzarrie di una ruota is a slapstick film in love with an object out of control and the confusion it can cause, over and over again in endless variations.
Short film about a military parade in Mainz.
One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.