Paper dolls

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poster The Little Match Seller

The Little Match Seller

A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are vis…

poster A Winter Straw Ride

A Winter Straw Ride

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of children, the children throw snowballs at the riders, and …

poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance

Annabelle Serpentine Dance

1mn - Documentary

In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…

poster Tarts and Flowers

Tarts and Flowers

7mn - Animation

While waiting for her cookies to bake, Audrey dreams about a marriage between the Gingerbread Man and Angel Cake.

poster The Gold Obsession

The Gold Obsession

7mn - Fantasy, Comedy

An artist is painting the portrait of a young woman dressed in a country costume in his attic studio. The landlord demands the rent, but the artist has no money. The model tries to comfort him, but he thr…

poster Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums

A tragic story of a ballerina.

poster A Hundred Tricks

A Hundred Tricks

poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie

Buncoed Stage Johnnie

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…

poster Modern Sculptors

Modern Sculptors

5mn - Animation, Fantasy

The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on…

poster Lightplay Opus II

Lightplay Opus II

4mn - Animation

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

poster Little Nemo

Little Nemo

12mn - Animation, Comedy

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Mov…

poster Fun in a Bakery Shop

Fun in a Bakery Shop

A baker's assistant throws a handful of dough at a rat. The dough sticks to the side of a barrel and the assistant proceeds to sculpt the dough into various faces and shapes. There is some experimental us…

poster Return to Reason

Return to Reason

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

poster A Mesmerian Experiment

A Mesmerian Experiment

A magician creates a troupe of dancers out of thin air.

poster Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

poster The Enchanted Pond

The Enchanted Pond

In an outdoor setting, a magician makes pond nymphs and frog people appear out of water and thin air.

poster Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

poster Pierrot the Prodigal

Pierrot the Prodigal

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…

poster An Impossible Balancing Feat

An Impossible Balancing Feat

A magician along with three doppelgangers perform an elaborate balancing act.

poster Little Angel

Little Angel

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “p…

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