A short film from Peter Elfelt showing Dagmar Hansen.
Dagmar Hansen
The biggest English comedy hit of the year. The scene is laid on an English estate at the edge of a pond. A couple of laborers discover, protruding...
Diving Lucy
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit...
The Great Train Robbery
Turn of the century rugby league.
Northern Union Challenge Cup Final: Halifax v. Salford
At the royal court, a prince is presenting the princess whom he is pledged to marry when a witch suddenly appears. Though driven off, the witch soon...
The Kingdom of the Fairies
Alphonse and Gaston are in an American barber shop. They interrupt business with their exaggerated politeness, and the waiting customers throw them...
Next!
Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his...
Pocket Boxers
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with...
Life of an American Fireman
An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.
Adventures of Don Quixote
Likely an unethical appropiation of Georges Méliès's film from 1902. "Although [Gulliver en el país de los gigantes] has been...
Gulliver en el país de los gigantes
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk...
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Footage of the 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, showing uniformed players in action along with...
Chicago-Michigan Football Game
Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted...
The Infernal Cake-Walk
This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch....
Alice in Wonderland
A merchant is giving a demonstration of his lifelike automatons to a bedazzled customer. Could these "larger than life" clockwork figures look too...
Les Poupées
A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.
The Gay Shoe Clerk
A prestidigitator, one of the best, is about to perform a number of illusions and brings to his aid a pack of playing cards. He selects the King of...
Metamorphosis of the King of Spades
A group of Jewish men in Ottoman Jerusalem perform a dance.
A Jewish Dance at Jerusalem
Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but...
Desperate Poaching Affray
Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Staging of a song by Miguel F. López.
Pica, pica Compadrito