The '?' Motorist 1906
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
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 customs officers, a fierce skirmish results and only the dogs and a single smuggler reach their destination.
Andre Deed is moving out, so he has hired some guys with a cart to move his stuff...... and they have a drink to seal the deal. They load his cart...... and they have a drink..... in short, but the time this is over, Deed is pretty loaded too in this amusing comedy.
Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and chases them away. They get out of the water, pick their clothes from tree branches, and move away before putting them on. The bearded man seems to be shy, but he is chasing after them through the wood, anyway.
The setting is a postoffice. A well-to-do lady has brought her maid to lick the stamps. A man, the maid's love interest, is taken by the sight and, as soon as he can, attempts to kiss her. Unfortunately the lovers forgot about the sticky residue…
A poor boy is mistreated by his stepmother when his father isn't present.
A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.
In all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn apart while the husband is away at work.
Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.
A soldier steals his officer's money and asks the music-hall singer he is mad about to run awy with him.
A Trip Down Market Street is a 13-minute actuality film recorded by placing a movie camera on the front of a cable car as it travels down San Francisco’s Market Street. A virtual time capsule from over 100 years ago, the film shows many details of daily life in a major American city, including the transportation, fashions and architecture of the era. The film begins at 8th Street and continues eastward to the cable car turntable, at The Embarcadero, in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building. It was produced by the four Miles brothers: Harry, Herbert, Earle and Joe. Harry J. Miles cranked the Bell & Howell camera during the filming.
Vera, daughter of a Cossack loves a young tartar who is the enemy of her father. She betrays her father to save the life of her lover, but loses her own life instead.
The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.
A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.
Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.
The Anarchist's Mother-in-Law premiered on October 23, 1906. It featured director Viggo Larsen as the anarchist and Margrethe Jespersen as his wife. The movie is about a mother-in-law disturbing the house peace. (Stumfilm.dk)
A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.
A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.