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poster The Marvellous Wreath

The Marvellous Wreath

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

poster The Gibson Goddess

The Gibson Goddess

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limb…

poster Banda batki Knysha

Banda batki Knysha

Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang…

poster The Ragtime Band

The Ragtime Band

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.

poster Time Out for Rhythm

Time Out for Rhythm

75mn - Comedy, Music

A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

poster Interrupted Bathers

Interrupted Bathers

1mn - Crime, Comedy

Three girls are taking a bath in a quiet, shady spot along a beautiful stream. Another young lady in bathing attire reclines on the bank. The latter suddenly discovers two hoboes coming toward the bathers…

poster The Policemen's Little Run

The Policemen's Little Run

6mn - Crime, Comedy

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the chase does not turn out as the policemen expect.

poster Aquarium

Aquarium

1mn - Documentary

Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.

poster Boules Game

Boules Game

1mn - Documentary

poster An Extraordinary Dislocation

An Extraordinary Dislocation

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

poster The Broken Violin

The Broken Violin

If a violin was actually broken here we don't get to see it. Sadly this is one of many Georges Melies films that are only available in a fragment. Hopefully one day a complete print will turn up but until…

poster Chaise en bascule

Chaise en bascule

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

poster Post No Bills

Post No Bills

1mn - Documentary, Comedy

A soldier stands guard at a sentry box and leaves it unprotected for a moment, a moment that two men take advantage of to put up posters where it is prohibited.

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

poster The Bad Pack

The Bad Pack

A band of mercenaries are hired to combat a militia terrorizing a group of Mexican immigrants in a Texas border town.

poster The Battle Royal

The Battle Royal

Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.

poster Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster

62mn - Crime, Drama

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a b…

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 Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel

Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel

1mn - Documentary

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

poster Addition and Subtraction

Addition and Subtraction

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

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