Movies 1907

An electrician uses electrodes attached to a metal cap to animate a cook's body.

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

Lost silent film, known to be the very first film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's tragedy of the same name, dealing with the last years of the...

“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their...

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

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he...

A noble Roman, bored with his life, sees a slave dance and they fall in love. Before they can consummate their passion, his wife has the slave killed...

Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from...

An inept marching band heads off to the competition, and then celebrates their surprising victory.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The short story tells of a young man who, after being rejected by the girl of his dreams, hangs himself from the tallest tree in the local park. He...

Ellen Aggerholm performing.

Norway's first film, a silent film about a fisherman and his son. The son falls in the water while they are working and disappears in the depths.

No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original screenplay has also been lost. However, some plot...

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks and...

Short trick film

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Jim, a robber, is in love with the chief’s bride Clara, who firmly rejects his many advances. In revenge, he snitches on the entire gang of robbers...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.

A tailor falls asleep and dreams that the suit he needs to make is magically completed.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A girl who works in a textile mill suffers unwanted advances from her boss. Her boyfriend, who also works there, sees it and knocks the boss down. In...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

The Devil visits Earth on a magic elevator. He surprises two sewer workers, disguises himself, and spreads chaos: a quarrel with a coachman, an...

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.