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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 Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
1mn - Fantasy
A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.
poster The Dwarf and the Giant
The Dwarf and the Giant
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
A magician explores two halves of his self: The Dwarf and the Giant.
poster Daddy's Double
Daddy's Double
16mn - Comedy, Romance
This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.
poster The Human Fly
The Human Fly
2mn - Fantasy
This is a moving picture that moves. Positively the greatest magical picture ever offered. A Hindoo magician appears and dances for the entertainment of six pretty maidens. Then, to the astonishment of al…
poster Flight of the Large Blue Fly
Flight of the Large Blue Fly
1mn - Documentary
Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.
poster Lichtspiel: Opus I
Lichtspiel: Opus I
(3.1/5)
12mn - Animation
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others roun…
poster Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
Pharmaceutical Hallucinations
13mn - Fantasy
There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in his cave, and a fairy appears -- then there's this mas…
poster An Impossible Balancing Feat
An Impossible Balancing Feat
1mn - Comedy
A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.
poster Sky High
Sky High
(3/5)
60mn - Western, Adventure
A government agent investigates a ring that is smuggling Chinese aliens across the border from Mexico. His investigation takes him to the Grand Canyon. He finds a dazed girl wandering around who has becom…
poster Damn the War
Damn the War
(3.3/5)
50mn - War, Drama
An army pilot is visiting the home of another army pilot in a neighboring country, and falling in love with his sister, when war breaks out.
poster The Acrobatic Fly
The Acrobatic Fly
3mn - Documentary
Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a miniature dumbbell… Most extraordinary of all is the seq…
poster Eskimotive
Eskimotive
(3.2/5)
8mn - Animation
Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...
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 The Curtain Pole
The Curtain Pole
10mn - Comedy
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumu…
poster Fencing
Fencing
1mn - Documentary
Early Edison short showing two men fencing.
poster The Sky Pilot
The Sky Pilot
(3/5)
77mn - Drama, Western
Arthur Moore, a missionary preacher, attempts to fit into the cowboy community so he can set up a church in the local saloon. Gwen, daughter of the "Old Timer," is injured in a stampede and loses her abil…
poster Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
(2.6/5)
13mn - Comedy
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a sim…
poster Married to Order
Married to Order
16mn - Comedy
Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
poster The Half-Breed
The Half-Breed
(3.4/5)
72mn - Western
In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan D…
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