Sili na Vaʻaia Tausaga 1908 - 24

Released the same week than Selig's version, they both were the first film versions of the popular play, adapted from Ellen Wood's 1861 novel.

A tour of the city of Camagüey divided into three segments - "A visit to Camagüey", "Typical scenes", and "Farewell Camagüey".

Early Balkan footage.

A newly-hired housekeeper turns out to be too clumsy and stupid to do her job.

After an altercation two men exchange cards, an invitation to adjudicate their differences on the field of honor. The seconds make all arrangements...

A woman attorney is seen in her apartment with her poor henpecked husband, who is more like her man servant than her better half. She is so taken up...

When a bully steals their ball, a kind war veteran lends the saddened children a helping hand. And a leg or two…

Silent pull the mourners behind the coffins of their unfortunate colleagues past the camera.

In a British barrack in India is confined a tamed gorilla which has conceived a hatred for one of the Hindoo attendants, owing to the barbarous...

Émile Cohl mixes live-action and stop-motion animation in this charming evocation of the power of imagination. A magician shapes his cane into...

A man picks up a man in drag. Short Italian comedy from 1908.

Arrival of the Christian Slaves: The captives are brought before Nero. He chooses one fair maiden to serve in his palace. The others are condemned to...

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but...

The Magistrate's Conscience - A drama from Pathé Frères.

Laying the Foundation Stone of Gustav Adolf's Church.

Peter Elfelt filming fashion.

King Frederik VIII visiting Jylland, arriving by train before traveling into town.

This is an incomplete fragment of a longer film, so doesn’t make much sense, but it’s very beautiful and colourful with plenty of...