Movies 1907

In this film, Méliès concocts a combination fairy- and morality tale about the foolishness of trying to look too deeply into the workings of an...

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

This film by Georges Mendel uses a primitive synchronization system for the projector and phonograph. Original sound lost but recently restored.

A woman enters her sitting room and begins to undress, as she feels a Pulicomorpha crawling under her clothes. Pathé Frères production Nº 1641.

A group of travellers go into a house for protection. Little do they know, it is filled with ghosts who make unusual things happen to them.

The artist is presented, with his board: his only appearance. The hand rapidly outlines a human head, into the chalky jaws of which it inserts a...

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he...

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine...

Rising from a stage are two vases which separate to reveal a female dancer behind each of the vases. They create magical circles of flowers from...

An adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy.

The plot follows King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel.

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks and...

Short trick film

Norway's first film, a silent film about a fisherman and his son. The son falls in the water while they are working and disappears in the depths.

This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.

This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane...

No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original screenplay has also been lost. However, some plot...

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

The artist is presented, with his board: his only appearance. The hand rapidly outlines a human head, into the chalky jaws of which it inserts a...

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

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

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.

Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love with each other, but when the trainer discovers them together, he makes it clear that Jack is...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

A girl who works in a textile mill suffers unwanted advances from her boss. Her boyfriend, who also works there, sees it and knocks the boss down. In...

A series of static shots of the buildings of the California Mission system, as they existed in 1907. Because many of the Mission buildings were in...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.