Le maitre chinois

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poster Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat
1mn - Comedy
Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …
poster Captured in Chinatown
Captured in Chinatown
54mn - Mystery, Crime
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
poster The Prince of Magicians
The Prince of Magicians
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
A magician does tricks with the aid of his assistant, the Human Pump.
poster Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire
(3/5)
106mn - Drama, Romance
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two ma…
poster Le cigare introuvable
Le cigare introuvable
1mn - Comedy
Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.
poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
Mademoiselle de La Seiglière
87mn - Family, Drama
The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…
poster The Champion
The Champion
31mn - Comedy
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts …
poster The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea
(3.3/5)
54mn - Family, Drama, Fantasy
A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.
poster A Tale of Two Worlds
A Tale of Two Worlds
(2.9/5)
70mn - Drama
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
poster The Magician and the Imp
The Magician and the Imp
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad i…
poster Welcome Danger
Welcome Danger
(3.0/5)
115mn - Comedy
A mild-mannered botany student must step into his late father's shoes as San Francisco's police chief and track down a mysterious crime boss known as "The Dragon" in Chinatown, armed with nothing but an o…
poster Tango Tangles
Tango Tangles
(2.6/5)
10mn - Comedy
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
poster The Man of the Sea
The Man of the Sea
86mn - Drama
Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing wh…
poster Shanghaied Lovers
Shanghaied Lovers
(2.7/5)
15mn - Comedy
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
poster Scullion's Dream
Scullion's Dream
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work.
poster The Mysterious Box
The Mysterious Box
2mn - Fantasy
As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a sheet of glass on which h…
poster The Musgrave Ritual
The Musgrave Ritual
(2.6/5)
18mn - Mystery, Crime
Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…
poster Whimsical Illusions
Whimsical Illusions
5mn - Comedy, Fantasy
In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assis…
poster The Penwiper
The Penwiper
4mn - Animation
Mud animation by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. From the "Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff" series.
poster I Cover Chinatown
I Cover Chinatown
(3.1/5)
64mn - Crime, Drama, Music
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
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