Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas

The silent Spanish version of the story of Don Juan Tenorio.

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle...

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

Mack Sennett appears as a soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Stenka Razin is the leader of a group of outlaws who live a life of revelry and carousing along the Volga River and in the nearby forests. When Razin...

Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

William Thompson and John Smith occupied offices in the same New York skyscraper, and both being seized with an irrepressible desire to cut loose and...

An episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.

Three burglars invade a house, kill two people, and blind a third person, a woman. The police arrest the wrong man.

Georges Melies' film has a new guy showing up in a store on his first day and he obviously just doesn't fit in as he makes one mistake after another.

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that...

A Segundo de Chomón trick film.

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

The film begins with a grandmother reading a story to a small child before tucking them into bed. No sooner has the mite fallen asleep than they...

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of fireworks,...

Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother...

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

It is often said there is honor among thieves, but not so, as we shall see in this story. Two denizens of the underworld are seen in their squalid...

Experimental color film that shows a magician and his assistant making objects and people appear and disappear. Then they stack up some blocks and a...

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...

A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

It is the only known surviving film footage from the 1908 Rodman Wanamaker-sponsored expedition to record American Indian life in the west, filmed...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Two noblemen fight over a lady.

Here's a travelogue that takes its audience to Palermo and shows them the big sights, and the hidden ones. It ends with a slow but impressive...

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

L. Frank Baum would appear in a white suit and present his live actors, slide shows and films as a live travelogue presentation of his popular...

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.

Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses...