Plej Vidataj Jaro 1906

A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)...

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and...

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he...

Panorama, Notorius 'Barbary Coast' after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

A photographer has an accident which not only screws up his lab but dumps a great deal of debris into the street below, causing general chaos.

A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.

It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?

Suffering from unrequited love, Max hangs himself from a tree, and ends up hanging for hours while local townspeople squabble over whose...

A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.

Gaston Velle's 'Les Fleurs Animées' was screened by the Australian-based Corrick Family Entertainers as part of their variety act. In their...

Alice Guy films the sea.

Four prisoners, in convicts' stripes, march backwards down stairs and, under the watchful eyes of guards, hop backwards into their cells. Later, one...

An office boy plays hooky from work so he can watch a ballgame perched high atop a telephone pole. Includes footage of an actual baseball game as if...

It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the...

A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.

A group of people watches a guignol (the French version of a Punch and Judy show). Outtake from a longer, now lost, film.

A sorcerer draws signs on the sand making charming young women.