Movies

A hunter tries to prove his extreme devotion to Lord Shiva by removing both of his eyes.

An elixir brings a dead woman back to life

A simple scene of two rather flamboyantly-dressed Edwardian children attempting to feed a spoonful of medicine to a sick kitten. The film is ...

Firemen on roof playing hose. Smoke & ladder visible. Pan across ground level of gutted building with some posters visible.

Siegmund Lubin’s 1903 film illustrating The Outcast and the Bride survives and is the only vestige of Lubin’s myriad attempts at ...

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his ...

The German legend of a scholar’s unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so ...

In a room filled with jugglers’ properties of enormous size a prestidigitateur dressed in eccentric costume enters with his assistant. The ...

It’s late in the evening, and the ballet master’s bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and ...

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot ...

Steam and sail drifters entering the harbour. The first shot on the Quay shows ranks of drifters, with fisher girls walking arm-in-arm. There are ...

A dealer in statues hustles a drunkard who retaliates by breaking all the statues, the Dealer rushes off for the police but upon his return with ...

The camera was placed to encompass a set of the backstage dressing room of a burlesque show. There are three chorus girls and one featured dancer ...

A film about workers leaving a factory.

An elderly woman is determined to board an omnibus that does not want to stop for her.

A group of policemen marching up and down in front of a static camera for a couple of minutes.

Six scenes: A child knocks clothes into fire; alarm at station; engines emerge; engines rush down street; arrival; fireman breaks through wall ...

A man in a plaid suit with a lantern hung around his neck comes out on stage, followed by another man who also carries a lantern. They turn as if ...

Two men in a cave perform magic.

A boy is led into the frame by two nursemaids who give him a big ball to play with. For the remainder of the film heads appear and disappear, ...

Buster Brown plays a practical joke on his mother, persuading her to to put her hands into a pan of lobsters, then puts a bunch of them in his ...

The mistress of a country home is going about inspecting the work done by her servant, when she discovers dust on the railing surrounding the ...

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that’s fallen overboard.

Alphonse and Gaston are in an American barber shop. They interrupt business with their exaggerated politeness, and the waiting customers throw ...

The U.S.S. “Indiana” in action. Filmed by American Mutoscope & Biograph on November 11, 1903 in Glen Island, NY.

With godly entrapments, Zeus appears on the horizon, engages Hermes as an audience, and tries to throw some thunderbolts. They fizzle. Hephaestus ...

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

A woman riding a train must contend with the unwelcome advances of a male passenger.

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the ...