Afbaus principle

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poster Onesime, Clockmaker
Onesime, Clockmaker
(3.2/5)
8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
poster The Bewitched Trunk
The Bewitched Trunk
3mn - Fantasy
A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.
poster Foney Fables
Foney Fables
(3.1/5)
8mn - Animation, Comedy
A series of fractured fairy tales vignettes.
poster The Defect
The Defect
41mn -
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the d…
poster Oranges and Lemons
Oranges and Lemons
12mn - Comedy
After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside …
poster Life of an American Fireman
Life of an American Fireman
7mn - Action
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect …
poster Interrupted Bathers
Interrupted Bathers
1mn - Crime, Comedy
Three girls are taking a bath in a quiet, shady spot along a beautiful stream. Another young lady in bathing attire reclines on the bank. The latter suddenly discovers two hoboes coming toward the bathers…
poster Professor Georg Brandes paa Universitetets Katheder
Professor Georg Brandes paa Universitetets Katheder
2mn -
A short documentary of Professor Georg Brandes.
poster All on Account of the Milk
All on Account of the Milk
(3/5)
17mn - Comedy
The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor. The hero continues to represent himself as a laborer in o…
poster Children Who Labor
Children Who Labor
13mn - Drama
The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill.…
poster Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster Fatty Joins the Force
Fatty Joins the Force
12mn - Comedy
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
poster Zero for Conduct
Zero for Conduct
(1/5)
41mn - Comedy, Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
poster The Pillar of Fire
The Pillar of Fire
1mn - Fantasy
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…
poster The Floor Below
The Floor Below
(3.2/5)
80mn - Comedy, Drama
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her as…
poster Fencing
Fencing
1mn - Documentary
Early Edison short showing two men fencing.
poster The Barometer of Fidelity
The Barometer of Fidelity
15mn - Comedy
This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.
poster A Hundred Tricks
A Hundred Tricks
(2.8/5)
3mn - Comedy
poster Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit
(3.3/5)
87mn - Drama, Romance
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with…
poster Rogues' Gallery
Rogues' Gallery
60mn - Mystery, Thriller
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…
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