All Films

The Barber's Baby's Christening

1908 • 2 min • Denmark

It’s the day of the barber’s baby’s christening, and the guests start arriving with their flowers and gifts, dropping them off while the barber is still trying to see to his last customer. As it’s taking a while, the wet-nurse is asked to take the baby on a short walk before the ceremony begins. She comes across a handsome young soldier, who she strikes up a conversation with. When an even more handsome man passes by, she hands the baby to the soldier. He has to return to the barracks, so he finds someone to leave the baby with. As time passes, the party start to wonder where the baby is. Fortunately, the baby has been handed in at the police station, where the parents reunite with their child. (stumfilm.dk)

Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet

1908 • 15 min • United States of America

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery

1908 • 8 min • United States of America

Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in our story Jim, is accused and is just about to be convicted. Can Sherlock Holmes free him in time? (Moving Picture World)

The Frog

1908 • 3 min • France

A frog hops around a magic fountain.

A Disastrous Flirtation

1908 • 10 min • United States of America

The hero, who fancies himself a ladies' man, cannot resist winking at every comely lass who passes his way. Unfortunately, he winks once too often, and soon the would-be Romeo is running for his life, pursued by an angry boyfriend. Disaster does indeed plague our hero for the rest of the picture.

Whaling Afloat and Ashore

1908 • 12 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

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

Fantasmagorie

1908 • 2 min • France

An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.

Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers

1908 • 12 min • United States of America

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter from Lanciotto, asking for the hand of Francesca. Both are overjoyed at the union of the two great houses in marriage, and the daughter retires to dress for Lanciotto's arrival.

Secret Suitcase

1908 • 1 min • France

De Chomon film from 1908. Existing film is incomplete in length.

La Tosca

1908 • 6 min • Denmark

A courtly drama of a bridegroom arrested for being intimate with the queen. To secure his release, his future bride sleeps with his rival. The film is incomplete. Missing is the ending, where the bride obtains a forged letter of passage and murders the rival, but then has to watch as her betrothed is executed after the letter is found to be forged. The film includes a single rare hand-coloured scene. FRAGMENT. (stumfilm.dk)

Excursion to the Moon

1908 • 7 min • France

Segundo de Chomón's remake of Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon.

The Zulu's Heart

1908 • 8 min • United States of America

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

Trilby

1908 • 10 min • Denmark

Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's climax survives.

Ten Pickaninnies

1908 • 1 min • United States of America

Imagine ten pickaninnies turned loose and on mischief bent. Farmer catches one leaving but Nine. Nine Happy Snowballs on a Swing elate. One gets knocked out then there are Eight. Eight Black Cherubs, swimming at "Eleven," Mammy catches "Rastus," that leaves Seven. Seven Jolly Coons on a Tramp play tricks. Tramp wakes up and nabs one vamoose the Six. Six Bad "Chillun" fooling 'round a Hive, Bees get busy now there's only Five. Five Inky Kids crawl thro' a hencoop door, Farmer scares one away that leaves Four. Four Smoky Kids hunting up a Tree. Gun explodes, whiz! "Skiddo" the Three. Three Black Lambs nothing else to do. Investigate a deep Well now there's Two. Two Cute Ebonites with Auntie having fun. "Mandy" gets a ducking all gone but One. One Chubby Coonlet with a toy Pop-gun. Monkeyed 'round a 'gaitor now there's None.

The Girl from Arles

1908 • 18 min • France

The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.

Landbrug i Danmark

1907 • 8 min

A documentary about Danish agriculture.

Shrovetide Celebrations at Mogensen's

1907 • 3 min

A parade...

The Village Blind Man

1907 • 8 min • Spain

It is an early example of the rural melodramas that were going to be popular in Spain, with situations that Bunuel will enjoy subverting. The outside locations have probably not been modified and therefore present an interesting reflection of the rural Spain around Valencia. The blind man of the title is not central character of the narrative, a nice twist.

Automobiler i Fredensborg

1907 • 2 min

Driving around and looking at cars in Fredensborg.

A Blasting Operation in Ordrup

1907 • 2 min

Two houses being demolished with dynamite in Ordrup Krat.

Afraid of Microbes

1907 • 6 min • France

A man who fears the influenza microbe buys an antiseptic spray from a pharmacist. On his way home, he insists on spraying everyone he encounters, including the police.

Eureka Stockade

1907 • 7 min

The surviving seven-minute fragment (original length unknown) shows street scenes of Ballarat is believed to be part of the 1907 film, the second feature film made in Australia (after the 1906 production, The Story of the Kelly Gang). Other scenes in the lost reels of the film were believed to have included gold seekers leaving London; the issuing of licences; the rush at Canadian gully; the arrival of the first women at the goldfields; licence hunting; diggers chained to logs and rescued by mates; the murder of Scobie; diggers burning Bentley's Hotel; the Rebellion; Peter Lalor addressing the miners; burning the licenses; building the stockade; troops storming the stockade; the stockade in ruins; and a look at Ballarat 55 years later

The Childrens' Camp

1907 • 11 min • France

An orphan boy escapes from a reformatory.

The Fatal Hand

1907 • 7 min • United Kingdom

There's a killer on the loose in Muswell Hill. Escaped from an asylum, he can be identified by the missing forefinger on his left hand.