Cute one-trick doggie show. The backdrop is beautifully detailed, yet the illusion of depth is humorously broken by the balloon bouncing off the set.

Departure from S. Mr. King and Mr. President to hunt in Rambouillet.

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

A man preparing for a trip encounters a series of mysterious problems.

A husband rushes for a doctor and his wife has triplets.

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

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…

A comedic short about taking unpleasant medicine.

A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden…

Alone in his room at an inn, a lustful old man is haunted by spirits.

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving….

A group of carriers leaving a building.

A couple of guys sort letters into pigeon-holes, another empties sacks of post and stamps the letters before passing them to a portly chap who is undoubtedly the star of…

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

A beautiful young blonde woman in scanty attire is seen reclining in the center of a set of a spider web. A well-dressed young man passes in front of her….

Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally…

Two housemaids, arguing, start to fight : a houseboy steps in to separate them, and in doing so becomes their target and is literally torn apart. Alarmed by the quarrel,…

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Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the…

As scene as pleasing as incomprehensible. A juggler summons two chairs, which come to the stage jumping and twirling around. Across the back of these chairs the operator places a…

When Edward VII was crowned, it was a time of great confidence and pride in the British Empire, as shown here by the extravagant and sometimes exotic horse-drawn floats.

King Edward VII’s coronation ceremony.

Film of Edward VII’s coronation. Appears on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.

A dozen years before hostilities broke out between Britain and Germany, members of their respective royal families visited the Cork Exhibition together on 8 May 1902. They are shown here…

“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant’s mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat,…

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…

Close view of legs and feet passing a basement window.

Shows a tramp enter and try to ride a wheel, from which he makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair, after which an artist enters and jumps…

As a janitor is cleaning a hotel, he decides to peek through the keyholes to observe some of the guests in their rooms. In room 8, a woman is busy…

Railroad from Georgetown to Silver Plume, Colorado.

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign “Don’t blow out the gas.” A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy….

On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight…

A magician’s hat offers many surprises.

Alberto Santos Dumont flies one of his dirigibles.

One of Alberto Santos Dumont’s dirigibles is led out of a hangar.

A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand’s famous play performing a scene from his…

A client has trouble listening to the photographer’s instructions.

A gardener is watering a garden. A prankster stands on his hose halting the flow until he looks at the nozzle and gets a stream of water to the face….

The dispersal of the Companies following the review of the 1st and 2nd Life Guards by Queen Victoria at Spital Barracks. The Companies, drawn up in single file, march towards…