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39 films in this collection
Collection no. #14091 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A conjurer performs an illusion that sends members of his audience onto the ceiling. The familiar relationship between bodies, gravity and the room…
Collection no. #14152 minF. Percy Smith
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Close-up photography shows a housefly balancing and moving small objects with its feet. The insect has been secured to a match head, turning the…
Collection no. #14193 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A tired traveller tries to get undressed and go to bed. Clothes and objects refuse to behave normally, turning the simplest part of his evening into…
Collection no. #14231 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A mother tries an inventor's machine promising a year's growth in a single hour. The accelerated treatment produces a startling result that turns a…
Collection no. #14496 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Airships attack England while an inventor prepares a defensive missile. When a bomb strikes his sweetheart's home, he must interrupt the experiment…
Collection no. #14612 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A couple fleeing a policeman drives up a building and into the sky. Their car circles celestial bodies before returning to earth, where one more…
Collection no. #14681 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An elderly dealer's curiosity shop becomes a place of disturbing apparitions. Objects and figures no longer behave as expected, leaving the…
Collection no. #14711 minRobert W. Paul
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A drunken husband comes home late and faces his irritated wife. She tries to reprimand him while getting him undressed and into bed, turning a…
Collection no. #14842 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist draws a woman whose image begins coming to life in separate parts. The act of creation moves beyond a flat drawing and confronts the…
Collection no. #14911 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A boy asks a magician to help his sick sister. The performer takes his abilities beyond the stage, bringing a moment of extraordinary assistance into…
Collection no. #15422 minF. Martin Duncan
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A man examines his cheese and discovers a microscopic world that spoils his appetite. The camera brings the movements of mites into view, changing an…
Collection no. #15433 minNo spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A young painter tips paint over a policeman and runs. The pursuit moves through real outdoor locations, turning a practical mishap into a prolonged…
Collection no. #15507 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A séance promises supernatural contact until the medium's methods are exposed. The apparent marvels give way to the human arrangements that produced…
Collection no. #15870 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A train stops on a narrow railway above the water and begins to reverse. An express emerges from a tunnel ahead, leaving no room to escape. Their…
Collection no. #16160 minRobert W. Paul
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Passengers ride the rises and dips of a fairground railway at Alexandra Palace. Robert W. Paul's camera follows the movement within a fixed…
Collection no. #16471 minWilliam Kennedy Dickson
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Alberto Santos-Dumont gestures while speaking with Charles Rolls during a visit to London. The silent sequence preserves a meeting between the…
Collection no. #5185 minH. Bruce Humberstone
85 min · Subtitles: English
A chorus dancer accepts a lift in a millionaire's car and is suddenly rumoured to be his fiancée. Her financially desperate producer sees the…
Collection no. #9761 minAlfred Zeisler
61 min · Subtitles: English
A wealthy Londoner accepts a doctor's challenge to live for a year on his own earnings without drawing on his inheritance. Ordinary work introduces…