Movies 1907

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...

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.

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

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...

An old woman begs a young men to carry her heavy bundle of firewood. The man refuses: he rather goes to sleep. The woman, who turns out to be a...

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...

After Lucinda do Carmo is abducted from a theatre, the police are on the case. This film is lost.

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

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...

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.

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...

People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser.

French film produced and distributed by Gaumont (catalogue number 1590) originally named "La Terroriste" (as registered in the BnF (Bibliothèque...

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

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...

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...

Short trick film

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...

The scene of the drama is a block of modern flats. Many of the residents are away at a dance, and the janitor and his staff decide upon a...

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...

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...

A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

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

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

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...

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

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...

Chronophone film performed by Vesta Tilley, now lost.

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

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...

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

A series of static shots of the buildings of the California Mission system, as they existed in 1907. Because many of the Mission buildings were in...

As a young couple are courting, they are rudely interrupted and split up. The man is seized and is turned over to a gang of toughs who want to hang...

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

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

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

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

The producer of "brainstorms-while-you-wait" is entertaining his audience with the antics of those under his soporific influence, when the fellow...