The Flight of Socrates

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewis...

Dennis O'Hara is a poverty-stricken Irishman who believes that if he comes to America he will immediately land a job as a policeman. So he manages to...

A barber's customer is not accustomed to the blade. Luckily, the coiffeur has a modern solution.

This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the unique ou...

A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.

A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the pl...

A mischievous witch uses her dark magic on an innocent cyclist until he is all confused. He is forced to pedal backwards and at the same time, his bik...

Shy Rigadin decides to visit some friends of the family, but they are called away and when out the servants play high society, dressing up and partyin...

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising...

Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.

A female impersonator giggles and flirts. By the following decade, many female impersonators would be shown doing their acts on the stage and in the m...

Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn't succumbed to the city's vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his u...

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a...

Two boxers climb into barrels and proceed to pummel each other in this novelty film from the Lumières.