Most Viewed Year 1907 - 13

A dramatic short.

The devil hijacks a train trip in France. Made by magician turned filmmaker Walter Booth, who established the Charles Urban Trading Company to make...

Squires skipping rope in backyard with sheds & chickens in background.

Two old men are talking about the pranks of their youth, which are shown in flashbacks.

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

The opening shows a colored nursemaid in the park with baby carriage, and seated on a bench receives the attention of several smart colored men who...

A midsummer Phantasy. The man having been attacked by footpads, puts on a suit of medieval armor which has been magnetized at a dynamo by two boys....

A parade...

Ellen Aggerholm performing.

Captivated by a vision of beckoning women, a man dives into the ocean, and soon finds himself walking on the ocean floor. After encountering numerous...

More than a dozen shots, some less than a second, of people wearing roller skates in various settings: a young man in skates sits on a low guardrail...

People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser.

A medical documentary for students.

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is...

A film from Louis Feuillade.

A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes...

This film by Georges Mendel uses a primitive synchronization system for the projector and phonograph. Original sound lost but recently restored.

A photographer has a studio in which he asks women to pose in the nude or in daring clothes. Then he receives his all-male clientele, to show them...

We see a working dog, a beggar's dog, a shepherd's dog, and a milkman's dog. The working dog is locked inside a large wire wheel; the dog runs inside...