Movies 1907

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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.

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

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...

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...

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...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The artist is presented, with his board: his only appearance. The hand rapidly outlines a human head, into the chalky jaws of which it inserts a...

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.

Cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love with each other, but when the trainer discovers them together, he makes it clear that Jack is...

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

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.