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poster Transformation by Hats
Transformation by Hats
1mn - Comedy
FĂ©licien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
poster The Paleface
The Paleface
20mn - Western, Comedy
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons …
poster Jupiter's Thunderballs
Jupiter's Thunderballs
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus tries to make some repairs but succeeds only in heating th…
poster In the Blink of an Eye
In the Blink of an Eye
(2.8/5)
90mn - Drama, Short, Crime
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.
poster The Imperceptible Transmutations
The Imperceptible Transmutations
2mn -
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
poster Glass Half
Glass Half
(3.5/5)
3mn -
Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...
poster An Over-Incubated Baby
An Over-Incubated Baby
1mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of …
poster Grandma Despina
Grandma Despina
1mn - Documentary
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, …
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster Pinkus's Shoe Palace
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
(2.8/5)
45mn - Comedy
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another jo…
poster Pest Pupil
Pest Pupil
(2.7/5)
6mn - Animation
1957 Baby Huey is a big duck enrolled in kindergarten. Despite being big and clumsy, he attempts to fit in, causing havoc and getting expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is…
poster Getting Evidence
Getting Evidence
14mn - Comedy
A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the detective to produce photographic evidence. The detecti…
poster Living Flowers
Living Flowers
(2.7/5)
4mn - Fantasy
Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their advertising the Corricks described the detailed, hand-coloured p…
poster A Funny Shave
A Funny Shave
2mn - Comedy
A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.
poster Sheep Shape
Sheep Shape
(3.8/5)
7mn - Animation
The villainous Wolf, desiring wine, women and song, fleeces Blackie the Sheep out of his money and heads off to whet his pleasure appetites. A vampish nightclub entertainer soon separates the wolf from hi…
poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
The Voyage of M. Bourrichon
15mn -
An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.
poster Pierrot the Prodigal
Pierrot the Prodigal
(2.7/5)
65mn - Drama
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 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 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 Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth
(2.7/5)
95mn - Drama, Short
Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younge…
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