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.
A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.
The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.
An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now covered in soot. He jumps onto the roof below his, landing two dandies into a trough of paint.
Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.
Based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. Titles read: The Christening of the Princess; The Good Fairies Fatal Prediction; The Royal Edict; The Princess is Sixteen Years Old; Searching for the Princess; The Prediction Comes True; Thou Shalt Sleep for a Hundred Years; A Hundred Years later the Prince Charming Goes Hunting; Prince Charming Dismisses His Escort; The Castle of Sleep; The Guard's Hall; You Have Been a Long Time Coming, prince; The Wedding of the Sleeping Beauty to Prince Charming.
Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
