Movies 1907 Page 5

A magician's son plays tricks with his father's magic wand.

A boy is put to bed by his mother, but when she leaves the room, he pulls out a book. Dropping off to sleep, he begins to dream. The wall behind him...

The interior of a trolley car. A menagerie of passengers notices a foul odour, and pinpoint the source of the stench at a cheese saleswoman. The...

During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade. The film is now attributed to Alice Guy-Blaché by the Gaumont company,...

A Breton enters the cave where the witch performs her magic and asks for advise. At the witch's command, he kisses her and becomes transformed into a...

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

Two dance numbers are performed.

A small dog thwarts burglars in this British short film.

The first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, running 90 minutes. Directed by Michel Carré, from his own three-act stage pantomime,...

An old woman begs a young men to carry her heavy bundle of firewood. The man refuses: he rather goes to sleep. The woman, who turns out to be a...

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake.

Viggo Larsen’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale about the soldier who gets hold of a magic tinderbox capable of calling...

A lady uses a series of newspaper spreads to create various objects including a man, a clock and a dog.

Chaos erupts when a dog steals a string of sausages from a butcher shop.

An impecunious chap is unable to pay his rent, whereupon he is ejected, but all his furniture is retained and he is allowed to remove only his...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Leonhard Haskel & Anna Müller-Lincke sing a song.

In the midst of the Civil War, a wife saves the day by swapping places with her captured and soon-to-be-executed husband.

This fragment comprises just over half of the original film and features a parade of partially-submerged submarines and destroyers launching...

Devilish looking man dances with a dress in his arms. The dress stands up by itself and a woman magician appears in it. She conjures six women and...

Dock workers offloading bags of sugar in Hawaii

More than a dozen shots, some less than a second, of people wearing roller skates in various settings: a young man in skates sits on a low guardrail...

Various scenes of daily working life at a sugar plantation in Hawaii.

A view of Pearl Harbor via railway.

Christy Mathewson showing his ball skills.

An early look at surfers off the coast of Honolulu

An anarchist throws a bomb at a rival. His dog retrieves it, chases him to a hut, and it explodes.

As a result of a stagecoach hold-up and other crimes, Buck Brady has become known locally as the "King of Bandits". The sheriff posts a $1000 reward...

A number from the original production of Victor Herbert's The Red Mill.

A panoramic view of Waikiki Beach.

An energetic man steals kisses from passing ladies, until bystanders give chase.

The surviving seven-minute fragment (original length unknown) shows street scenes of Ballarat is believed to be part of the 1907 film, the second...

Crooks hide inside a dummy pillar box.

Two men box in a comedic manner, with the film opening as one man in a cap punches the other and then ducks behind him.

Various scenes of local color in Hawaii.

A 360 degree view of Haleakala.

The film is of a man who, judging from his face and the part of his costume that is visible, is made up as a clown. The shortness of the film permits...

This subject illustrates the pathetic attachment that exists between a dog and his blind master.

Two old men are talking about the pranks of their youth, which are shown in flashbacks.

It starts off with Roman soldiers in chariots battling fur-clad savages with pointy sticks, moves on to the Eighth Century, then leaps to King John.