1907 Movies

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

A dog runs away with a length of sausage. Chaos erupts as the butcher chasing the dog collides with bystanders who angrily follow.

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a tr...

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

A statue of Hope revives and finds a home for a waif.

As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy ret...

Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [...

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane ol...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.

A film from Louis Feuillade.

"Le Pied de Mouton" is an adaptation of an old French stage play titled "The Talisman" written by Alphonse Martainville and César Ribié. The atmospher...

The artist studio is decorated with a rug, a chaise lounge, a small table, a plinth, a couple of copies of classic sculptures, a vase with flowers, a...

In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the b...

A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".

A four-year-old saves the day.

Early slapstick short from Louis Feuillade involving runaways, except that, instead of it being a runaway horse (see Griffith's THE CURTAIN POLE for a...

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his unsuspecting...