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Destruction of San Francisco by earthquake and fire.

1906, produced by Charles Urban, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Mountain climbers follow the trails up Mont Blanc. A beautiful panorama of fields of snow, made gold by the son. A tourist is rescued by a mountain...

A soldier steals his officer's money and asks the music-hall singer he is mad about to run awy with him.

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

Short silent film about the difficulty caused by these dresses in getting out of the car without offending the modesty of passers-by.

King Haakon travels to Trondhjem.

A trip through Vienna on a tram.

In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of...

A tramp steals food from a picnicking professor and is blown up.

A curate sits on an anthill at a picnic.

Men in boats traveling along the Ozu River, sometimes getting out to walk on the gravel and pull the vessels along.

A man is obsessed with playing billards.

Modern Americans think that the movies learned to talk in 1927 when Al Jolson opened his mouth in THE JAZZ SINGER, but sound pictures had a much...

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

A dog trails bankrobbers and saves its master's life.

In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a...

Short silent film where the word flower appears when two women trow flower petals on a tableau.

The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the...

An artist is painting the portrait of a young woman dressed in a country costume in his attic studio. The landlord demands the rent, but the artist...

A fat man has lost his glasses and runs into all types of problems trying to find them.

A man gives away an inherited hat, then finds it contains a will.