Primer

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows primer

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 On the Fire
On the Fire
11mn - Comedy
Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
poster The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress
The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress
(3/5)
61mn - Adventure
Count de Faber is working on a new type of explosive, but finds out that Professor Plussman has beat him to it. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the formula from Plussman, he breaks into the profe…
poster The Finish of Bridget McKeen
The Finish of Bridget McKeen
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy
The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.
poster The Burning Crucible
The Burning Crucible
(3.7/5)
97mn - Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on t…
poster Blacksmithing Scene
Blacksmithing Scene
(3.1/5)
1mn - Drama
Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.
poster Doomsday for Pests
Doomsday for Pests
15mn - Animation, Documentary
Facing mounting insect deaths, concerned bugs view a documentary film about Sherwin-Williams's lethal new PESTROY pesticide coating.
poster Perfect People
Perfect People
(2.8/5)
100mn - Short, Comedy, Drama
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education bu…
poster Perfect Profile
Perfect Profile
0mn -
Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…
poster Photograph
Photograph
1mn - Comedy
A photographer has his camera all set up to take a gentleman's picture. The subject checks his face in a hand mirror, and the photographer poses him. Just as the photographer is about to take the picture,…
poster Exposé
Exposé
(2.7/5)
Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
poster Work
Work
29mn - Comedy
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. …
poster Rogues' Gallery
Rogues' Gallery
60mn - Mystery, Thriller
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…
poster A Dull Razor
A Dull Razor
1mn - Comedy
This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...
poster Dough and Dynamite
Dough and Dynamite
(3.0/5)
28mn - Comedy
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
poster The Man with the Rubber Head
The Man with the Rubber Head
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.
poster Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water fro…
poster The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna
(3.1/5)
31mn - Comedy
Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards's officers who pa…
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 The Infernal Cauldron
The Infernal Cauldron
(3.3/5)
2mn - Fantasy, Horror
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
Related terms
See also