1907 Movies

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 which...

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 procee...

In a bower of giant tulips a boy and girl practice flower magic. They cause flowers and birds to open and human forms to issue therefrom, and on the b...

"Le Pied de Mouton" is an adaptation of an old French stage play titled "The Talisman" written by Alphonse Martainville and César Ribié. The atmospher...

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 mak...

Short trick film

“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their instruments....

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

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.

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 ol...

A magical woman and her magical eggs.

Actuality documentary film recording the funeral procession of King Oscar II of Sweden on 19 December 1907. Footage includes public mourning in Stockh...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

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.

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 witch,...

The legend of Ali Baba and the forty thieves: Ali Baba discovers a hidden cave where a band of thieves have stored their enormous treasure. Cassim als...

People magically appear and disappear from an oversized musical cigar dispenser.

Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoys the customers and destroys the goods and propert...

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 cigar...