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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 Lightplay Opus II
Lightplay Opus II
(3.1/5)
4mn - Animation
An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.
poster Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster The Untamable Whiskers
The Untamable Whiskers
3mn - Fantasy, Comedy
The background of this picture represents a scene along the beautiful river Seine in Paris. A gentleman enters, and taking a blackboard from the side of the picture, he draws on it a sketch of a novelist.…
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 Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
(3.2/5)
3mn - Comedy, Animation
A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
poster Tweedledum as Aviator
Tweedledum as Aviator
(2.9/5)
6mn - Comedy
Robinet, the lead in this Italian slapstick comedy, wants to be an aviator in the worst way, and this being an Italian slapstick, that's how he does it. Italian slapstick in this period was absolutely bon…
poster Coney Island at Night
Coney Island at Night
4mn - Documentary
A panorama of Coney Island, taken at night: the camera sweeps across the scene from a vantage point well above the area. It then moves in for closer views of Dreamland and Luna Park.
poster The Mystic Swing
The Mystic Swing
1mn - Fantasy
The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor…
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 Long Distance Wireless Photography
Long Distance Wireless Photography
6mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
Into a photography studio full of large fantastic machines steps an elderly couple. The bearded proprietor explains the equipment and gives them a demonstration: he starts machines whirring, and projects …
poster Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1mn - Documentary
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
poster Coolies à Saïgon
Coolies à Saïgon
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
Two lines of workers, pulling a steamroller, somewhere in the streets of Saigon, Vietnam (nowadays, Ho Chi Minh City).
poster KoKo's Earth Control
KoKo's Earth Control
(3.6/5)
8mn - Comedy, Animation
Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-contr…
poster Comanche
Comanche
(2.8/5)
87mn - Western
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner.
poster Penrod and Sam
Penrod and Sam
(3.5/5)
84mn - Comedy, Drama
poster The Devil Bat
The Devil Bat
(2.7/5)
68mn - Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice thei…
poster White Comanche
White Comanche
94mn - Western
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation …
poster Police Chasing Scorching Auto
Police Chasing Scorching Auto
3mn - Action, Crime
Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once that film had been edited to fit a standard 1,000 foot …
poster The Red Spectre
The Red Spectre
(3.3/5)
8mn - Fantasy
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
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