Cinematic Era: 1907 Vintage

Brief surviving fragment of a silent comedy

Medieval legend, a story about marital fidelity of the falsely accused Genevieve towards her husband Siegfried. The story has been adopted in several narratives, musical plays and for the cinema screen.

A two and a half minute clip of Ice skating in Fredericia.

Kids in activity, as organized by the F.D.F.

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

Misfortunes of a jacket.

A workman carries a piece of wood from a lumberyard to a work site. Along the way, he wreaks havoc.

Demonstrations through the city on May 1st in Slagelse. The year is unknown.

A footage of an orchestra at Frederiksberg Theater.

More than a dozen shots, some less than a second, of people wearing roller skates in various settings: a young man in skates sits on a low guardrail next to a city sidewalk reading, a woman with a child shoots by, a constable skates gingerly, a man skates by in suit and vest, another cleans front steps, children skate into a room where papa and siblings sit, someone slips at the base of stairs, a man in a cowboy hat moves fast, two jovial chubby women shake hands, our man in the hat trips over a wheelbarrow, then falls again as he rounds a corner, then down goes the constable. It's a crazy day on the city sidewalks.

A trip by tram from Linnégatan to Västra Hamngatan in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Two friends share a drink in a bar. They go separate ways, and one of them just can't stop drinking.

Early stencil-coloured German travelogue film.

....and therefore a man leaves the building carrying an umbrella, which promptly blows away. Since no one in Paris has ever seen anything like this before, a dozen people, including a man hobbling along on a a crutch, chase the thing for kilometers -- I had written 'miles' but this is a French comedy.

A priest, called to the bedside of a dying man, receives his sad confession. Having robbed a man on the highway, fate punishes him for his bad action, he slips on a rock and splits his skull. His words interrupted by the death that is coming, he begs the priest to return the money buried under the earth and dies with a calmed mind. The priest will find his mission not easy to accomplish.

In the midst of the Civil War, a wife saves the day by swapping places with her captured and soon-to-be-executed husband.

Two dance numbers are performed.

A boy armed with itching powder makes a nuisance of himself, spraying everyone in sight.

Cooperating with, and probably subsidized by, the islands' local railroad company and their promotional committee, Bonine photographed a series of short films under the rubric Scenes and Incidents, Hawaiian Islands. Subjects included Hawaiians Arriving to Attend a "Luau" or Native Feast; Shearing Sheep, Humunla Ranch, Hawaii; and Panoramic View of Waikiki Beach, Honolulu. His Hawaiian travelogue showed the picturesque quality of this overseas territory, acquired at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. The photographer himself became an exhibitor, presenting his own program at several venues, including the Orange Camera Club in May 1907.

After a witch has finished her breakfast and has flown away, two bandits break into her house. They scatter various magic canisters, and as a result, first from four ghosts and then from four devils, they are severely beaten. One thief flees, the other keeps trying and is shooed by the four devils and the four ghosts.

A poor artist living in a garret room uses his talent for painting to feed himself by any means necessary

In this film, female wrestlers fight while two male referees, dressed in suits, keep a close eye on the match as it progresses. (stumfilm.dk)

A professor sprays people with 'galvanic fluid', and unleashes pent-up energy. Displays an early use of over-cranking and under-cranking.

A terrorist group plans to kill the governor. They kidnap his wife. The police look for them and as they come out of their lair they do justice by killing them one by one. But another prepares a bomb.

A poacher hunts rabbits with his youngest daughter. The eldest daughter is courted by the guard and on one occasion this guard kills the hunter. The little daughter takes revenge on him.

A motorist has a breakdown at the entrance of a town where they have never seen a car before, and they ask each other for help to see what it is that has appeared.

The wife buys a magnetic belt for her husband to give him more vigor but the power of it makes him pounce on the women with kisses. The belt passes from one to the other with unexpected effects.

A lady and her husband leave their home and go to a fashionable millinery, where the lady buys a beautiful hat. From there they go to a restaurant and seat themselves for a meal. The waiter, in serving the soup, stumbles, with the result that he spills the contents of the tureen on the lady's new hat. She is mortified and enraged, and her husband immediately halls a cab and takes her home, where on reaching her room she throws the hat to the ground and falls to weeping. A servant enters, and seeing the mined headgear on the ground, adopts it as her own. She fixes it up to suit her taste and is next seen wearing it as she meets her lover, the policeman. Together they go to a park and seat themselves on a bench, the servant placing her hat beside her. While the couple are busy, a very stout gentleman comes along, seats himself on the hat and proceeds to read his newspaper.

It starts off with Roman soldiers in chariots battling fur-clad savages with pointy sticks, moves on to the Eighth Century, then leaps to King John.

A nanny quits her job, and convinces all the other nannies in the apartment building to go out on strike. The strike spreads to the city, with nannies everywhere abandoning their charges, in the park and in the streets. A counter-protest of abandoned babies follows.

A woman considers what she should do. Fortune telling using cards? No, the palms of the hands! You don't have to shell out for a pack of cards, and given the phrenologists telling you your character from the exact shape of the head, people will believe anything.

The producer of "brainstorms-while-you-wait" is entertaining his audience with the antics of those under his soporific influence, when the fellow with the not-if-I-know-it expression appears and challenges the professor. What follows is most cogent and convincing, but he takes his conviction with such an ugly grace that the hypnotist becomes his avowed nemesis, and so follows him for some time.

The egg gatherers send one of their numbers over the cliff's edge, to rappel down the vertical side, pick up eggs, and then rappel back up. Later, thy sort and share the eggs.

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

Cattle are driven into the sea and tied to a row boat.

A 360 degree view of Haleakala.

Various scenes of local color in Hawaii.

"An Introduction to the Actual Condition of Taiwan" is the first film ever made in Taiwan. It was commissioned by the Japanese authorities to director Toyojirō Takamatsu (1872–1952) in 1907, twelve years after Japan occupied Taiwan, as a propaganda movie showing the progress of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The film is lost, but it is known from reviews in local newspapers that it featured a long staged scene of Japanese military repressing a revolt by Taiwanese indigenous people. The aboriginal theme reportedly occupied the longer part of the film. Others were devoted to depicting scenic locations, and the production of "exotic" goods such as bananas and coconuts. The film was criticized for presenting a romantic, exotic, and colonial view of Taiwan, ignoring its more modern industrial products and social problems.

Two contortionists, dressed as devils, invade a kitchen.

In an empty mansion's corridor, flames appear and form into a Mephistophelean magician who conjures a couple of women and then a fireworks display.

A visit to the Champagne Factory Mercier.

Flowers growing in a flowerbed.

An artist is seen in his studio, apparently waiting his periodical remittance, which is long past due. After some thought, he decides to sell one of his pictures. He first goes to an art dealer's, only to find that his painting is not wanted, the man directing him instead to a junk dealer. He goes to this merchant, who tells him he may find a demand for his picture in a liquor saloon nearby. Meanwhile a letter-carrier with a special letter which must have the signature of the artist, has called at his quarters and has been directed by the Janitor to the art dealer's store. Panting and out of breath, he reaches the store, but here is sent on to the junk dealer's. Dashing in just as the artist has left, the junk man directs him to the saloon, but the same circumstances attend him there, and he follows the artist to the home of a lady where the artist had gone to dispose of his picture, but finds that he is too late and starts back to the home of the artist once more.

The morning after one of those stormy nights when everything is raging and howling in the darkness outside, two customs officers visit Marie-Jeanne's cottage to carry out the sad mission about the fisherman's body washed up by the tide, buried in the beach. The body of her husband Alain.

Squires skipping rope in backyard with sheds & chickens in background.

Danilo arid Sonio are ordered to marry to save their country from bankruptcy. They are both too proud to speak to each other at a fête in the ambassador's garden in Paris, but they are forcibly brought together by the ambassador and other courtiers present, which results in a quarrel. During the national dance Sonio appeals to the prince with such feeling that he yields to his love and proposes.

The "Masher" is a product of no particular time or place, but known everywhere, and least thought of where best known. The adventures and misadventures of one of this type as presented in this film make a very laughable comedy subject.

Horse racing in Sweden.

Mr. Hurry-Up gets dressed in a rush, and then races down to breakfast. After a few quick bites and a couple gulps of coffee, he races out the door and heads to work. While working at his desk, he begins to suffer from a painful toothache. Though he wants to get it dealt with as quickly as possible, Mr. Hurry-Up soon learns that some things should not be done hastily.

King Frederik VIII of Denmark arrives in Berlin, Germany.

A man attempts a series of 'trial marriages' with various women, and eventually gives up on marriage altogether.

A middle-aged woman in rural dress and a young woman in a smarter dress are picking up herbs in a forest. The workload and the sunny day call for a halt for refreshment. The young girl disrobes, and enters the nearby river in the nude, followed by the mature woman who simply fathers her long skirts up to her waist, revealing her naked thighs and white-slip covered buttocks. The camera follows them to the right, capturing the water movement, and their splashing about. (A white sunflower stands alone in the midst of the water creeks - hinting at the Production company's logo, an 8-pointed star.) A fisherman arrives and starts throwing his hook at the fish, with no results; so, he moves to the right, and throws the hook again, this time capturing the heavy mature woman who comes from behind the curtain of willows, complaining of pain in the lower of her back. A policeman in city uniform and white casket appears, to expel both the fisherman and the woman from the place.

People and nature in Värmland, famous for popular writer Selma Lagerlöf, is shown.

Report from the inauguration of the memorial chapel at Lützen, Germany, created through Swedish donations to commemorate the Thirty Years' War.

Lost scripted film about the Stockholm Fire Department

This film of the fountains gives a very good idea of their beauty, and brings Rome to New York. The Plaza of St Peter's, with its grand architecture, is still more embellished by the beautiful fountains playing in its midst. This film takes us on a panoramic tour of the beautiful architecture that is to be seen in this world-famed city.

Actuality footage recording the visit/appearance of Kaiser Wilhelm II at Swinemünde (Swinoujście) in 1907. The short clip documents the Kaiser’s arrival and public reception at the port town, offering a contemporary moving-image witness to imperial pageantry and international royal activity in the Baltic region.

The exact location of the filmed event is uncertain, but Oxford and Dundee Universities were possibilities suggested by reviewers.

An early cinematic retelling of the famed fairy tale, with a large dog playing the Wolf.

A lady sits down at her make-up table and regards its mirror. Various women appear in the glass, dancing, primping and doing other feminine activities.