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poster Lights of New York
Lights of New York
(2.9/5)
57mn - Crime, Drama
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
poster The Kiss
The Kiss
1mn - Romance
"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is not one of that kind, but one of those old fashioned "ho…
poster Hadj Cheriff
Hadj Cheriff
1mn -
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 The Electric House
The Electric House
23mn - Comedy
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
poster Men Boxing
Men Boxing
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 Another Job for the Undertaker
Another Job for the Undertaker
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…
poster Electrocuting an Elephant
Electrocuting an Elephant
1mn - Documentary
This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.
poster Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls
Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls
(3.1/5)
1mn - Documentary
A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont presents his ideas for a future balloon, showing to Rolls…
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
poster Move On
Move On
2mn - Documentary
In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving. The pictu…
poster Monkeyshines, No. 1
Monkeyshines, No. 1
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope and believed to be the first film shot in the United States. It shows a blurry figure in white standing in one place making l…
poster Adventures of William Tell
Adventures of William Tell
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The scene opens in an artist's studio where the unfinished statue of William Tell stands upon a pedestal. A clown appears and sticks a clay arm and clay head on the statue, thus completing it. He places a…
poster Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1mn - Music
William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
poster Long Distance Wireless Photography
Long Distance Wireless Photography
6mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects …
poster Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce
Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce
1mn - Comedy
This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He inquires for his wife and is told by the cook that she is ab…
poster Algol: Tragedy of Power
Algol: Tragedy of Power
99mn - Sci-Fi, Drama
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
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 Airship Destroyer
The Airship Destroyer
7mn - Drama, War, Sci-Fi
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
poster A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
7mn -
Early sound film featuring comedian Eddie Cantor.
poster Demolition of a Wall
Demolition of a Wall
1mn - Documentary
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wa…
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