All Films

Mr. Hallate is leaving for a trip and his loving wife is helping him to get his belongings out with him. At last everything is ready and she goes on the stoop and watches him get into the rig. Augustus Slip, who happens to pass at this moment, sees her and, like other men of small stature, becomes deeply enamored with the ponderous Mrs. Hallate. He goes and purchases a bouquet and, returning to the house, walks into the parlor and forces his attentions on Mrs. Hallate. She, however, will have none of him, and as he refuses to leave, flies for revenge to the maid in the kitchen. The maid happens to be entertaining her friend, Officer O'Brien, and Mrs. Hallate is indeed glad to see a limb of the law, and requests him to eject the eloquent Augustus. Meantime, Mr. Hallate has missed his train, and accordingly returns to his home. Augustus hearing him enter, hides behind a curtain, and when the officer enters Hallate is the only man in sight.

A short silent animated cartoon from 1910 about a clown and his dog. The dog jumps trough a hoop which the clown holds.

Fabian is busy: he is going on a picnic with his girlfriend. Unfortunately, he is delayed by a series of absurd accidents on the way to the train station. (stumfilm.dk)

This film served to introduce the music-hall act of Louisette and Chrétienni and was an integral part of their number.

A grandfather tells his granddaughter about the origin of the name Hemelbloemetje: Peter once dropped the key of the gate of heaven in his sleep. At the place where he fell to the earth, Celestial flowers grew.

Short video showing the funeral of Don Michele Rua (1837-1910), the first Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Don Rua's funeral procession makes its way through the most important places of Salesians: the Basilica di Maria Ausiliatrice (Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians), the so-called Casa Madre of the Salesians and Valsalice, at the tomb of Don Bosco.

A laundryman ties the lieutenant and girls in a sea cave. They are saved by sailors and shell the town.

Documentary about the building of a transcontinental railway in Canada.

Using movement, colors and light – in a story that develops from dawn to dusk – the director confronts the splendor of the city and forces all the rules and technologies available to him to give us back not so much reality as impressions of pure beauty that only Venice can give.

A short silent film about war

Directed by Camille de Morlhon. Set in ancient Babylon.

This is a documentary short on the eruption of the volcano Etna in Italy.

Women’s weepies were a nickelodeon staple in the early years of movies. In these one-reel dramas, women trapped in no-win situations confronted heart-wrenching decisions: Should a young woman wed her penniless sweetheart or accept a rich but loveless match? Should a mother give up her infant so that the child can eat? Should a loose woman risk a glimpse at her son who has been raised by others and is unaware of his birth mother’s shameful past?

A lady undresses with some assistance of her maid, and picks up an exiting book as soon as she is alone again.

We all have problems in our lives, and in our relationships. But what if the one you love literally lives on a different planet? This is the problem facing the couple in Matrimonio Interplanetario, a charming Italian short film in the Méliès mould.

Lost short film about the death of the last Aztec Emperor.

A documentary set in Italian-speaking Switzerland, whose beauties are revealed through “phantom rides” on the Brunate Cremagliera railway, through sunsets in backlight on Lake Como and footage of the Bernina railway climbing up through snowbound mountains.

Ambrosius Stub is elated when he gets the position as a writer, working for the Baron. This means a steady income and new experiences, as well as various new acquaintances. Among the latter lurks a dangerous infatuation that has fatal consequences for Ambrosius. The film is an adaptation of Chr. K. F. Molbech’s 1877 play of the same name. (stumfilm.dk)

Léontine -- to give her her due accent marks -- was a comedienne who played a young girl in a series of comedies about this time, in which she wreaked havoc. She does it here, as she helps the movers shift stuff downstairs.

Four gentlemen are talking in a beer-garden; during a short absence of one of them, who pretends to be an art lover, the others decide to make a prank on him. When he comes back, one them invites the "square" bourgeois to his home, pretexting to show him an art catalog. The men pay their drinks and leave, but the three friends convene later, and they have paid a young female model to be there, too.

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.

The oldest surviving film in the Léontine series, this incomplete escapade features everyone’s favorite “mistress of mayhem” doing what she does best: wreaking total havoc and defying repressive authority. Léontine runs errands for a milliner, whereupon she steals the ludicrously oversized chapeau she was tasked with delivering to a valued customer. She adds insult to injury by leading her property-owning victims down a royal road of utter humiliation.

Travelogue of picturesque views in Italy.