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poster The Floorwalker
The Floorwalker
(3.3/5)
28mn - Comedy
An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.
poster A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
(3/5)
11mn - Fantasy, Drama
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that await…
poster Crazy Like a Fox
Crazy Like a Fox
(3.3/5)
22mn - Comedy
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and de…
poster 45 Minutes from Hollywood
45 Minutes from Hollywood
(2.7/5)
17mn - Comedy
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
poster A Burlesque on Carmen
A Burlesque on Carmen
(3/5)
31mn - Comedy
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
poster McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
1mn - Documentary
“This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his Secretary, who hands him a telegram, which he reads with apparen…
poster A Hand Shake
A Hand Shake
1mn -
William K.L. Dickson and William Heise shake hands in this early experimental film.
poster A Nymph of the Waves
A Nymph of the Waves
1mn - Documentary
A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the ski…
poster A Film Johnnie
A Film Johnnie
(2.8/5)
12mn - Comedy
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
poster The Abyss
The Abyss
(3.2/5)
38mn - Drama
Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling circus stops in the village, Magda leaves the meek Knud for the dashing…
poster President McKinley Taking the Oath
President McKinley Taking the Oath
1mn - Documentary
Filmed at the second inauguration of William McKinley on March 4, 1901, this short captures the president taking the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol. Although Thomas Edison has sometimes been mistakenl…
poster Akrobatisches Potpourri
Akrobatisches Potpourri
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
poster The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery
(3.7/5)
11mn - Crime, Action, Western
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
poster Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene
(3.1/5)
1mn - Drama
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
poster An Artist's Dream
An Artist's Dream
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring their costumes. Mep…
poster The Boxing Kangaroo
The Boxing Kangaroo
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary, Action
A man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
poster Getting Acquainted
Getting Acquainted
(2.8/5)
16mn - Comedy
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
poster The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
(2.7/5)
17mn - Romance, Comedy
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
poster Katsudō Shashin
Katsudō Shashin
(2.7/5)
1mn - Animation, Family
A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".
poster Gertie the Dinosaur
Gertie the Dinosaur
12mn - Animation, Comedy
Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distinguishe…
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