Alfred abel

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poster Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

9mn - Adventure

An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.

poster Alice the Jail Bird

Alice the Jail Bird

8mn - Animation

Alice and Julius are riding along on a turtle until they notice someone has left a pie to cool on their third-storey window sill. They swipe it with the aid of the turtle and his elongated neck, but are p…

poster Accordion Player

Accordion Player

1mn - Documentary

The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the …

poster Writing Backwards

Writing Backwards

Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.

poster Hadj Cheriff

Hadj Cheriff

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand at the opening of the act. He then hurls the…

poster Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

13mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

poster Lloyd's of London

Lloyd's of London

113mn - Drama, History, Romance

Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head hi…

poster Tit-for-Tat

Tit-for-Tat

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

poster Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

67mn - Drama, Romance

Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a r…

poster R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.

R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.

13mn - Animation

Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.

poster The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by L…

poster Baby Brother

Baby Brother

Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farin…

poster A Clever Dummy

A Clever Dummy

An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.

poster His New Profession

His New Profession

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

Maniac

An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.

poster Tol'able David

Tol'able David

Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mail carrier for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact …

poster Felix in Hollywood

Felix in Hollywood

9mn - Animation

A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.

Ivanhoe

53mn - Adventure, Drama, Romance

Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowen…

poster Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy

Calino Wants to Be a Cowboy

6mn - Comedy, Western

Calino wants to live the cowboy life and travels to America to see the West.

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