A short reenactment of a scene from Goethe's Faust.
korte film : Een jonge, donkerharige vrouw voert een dans uit geïnspireerd op George du Mauriers personage Trilby, in een vroegmoderne dansstijl die doet denken aan Isadora Duncan. Ze danst op blote voeten zonder kousen en is gekleed in een lange, vloeiende jurk die in Griekse stijl over de boezem is gebonden, met franje aan de binnenkant en een gedrapeerde cape die aan haar pols is gehaakt. Ze draagt ook wat lijkt op een hoofddeksel met een slinger. De danseres houdt haar jurk de hele tijd met één hand vast en voert een reeks trappen en bochten uit met beentrappen voor en achter, schommelend en rond de jambe.
Georges Méliès adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the first film adaptation of the story. Filmed in black & white, Méliès would then paint the film by hand to colour it. Originally a 15 minute film, twelve and a half minutes of painted film have been found and have been restored.
Professor Barbenfouillis en vijf van zijn collega's van de Academie voor Astronomie reizen naar de maan in een capsule die wordt afgeschoten door een reusachtig kanon. Eenmaal op het maanoppervlak aangekomen, worden de stoutmoedige ontdekkingsreizigers geconfronteerd met de vele gevaren die verborgen liggen in de grotten van de mysterieuze planeet.
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are visions: a fireplace, dinner, a Christmas tree. She sees her dead mother, welcoming her.
A juggler enters upon the scene, picks up a skull, throws it into the air, catches it in his hands, where it is transformed into a handkerchief. The handkerchief, after being twirled about a wand, is changed to a napkin, and afterward to a tablecloth. Out of the table cloth comes a servant.
An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.
A father and son are working in a coal mine. An explosion occurs, which kills the son.
It was the first film version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Directed by Ren Jingfeng.
The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.
The first scene shows part of Flint's old pirate crew, with one-legged John Silver in the lead. They have discovered the hiding place of Billy Bones, the mate of Flint's ship, the "Walrus," and they send Black Dog, one of the crew, to tip Billy Bones to the "black spot" at the Admiral Ben Bow Inn; but Billy Bones drives Black Dog away, and will have nothing to do with him.
A man in a suit and cap stops in front of the display of a bookseller, finds and flips… "Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells! Fascinated by the subject, he buys the book and goes home with the intention to test the invisibility formula described by the author…
This adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic novel briefly presents the story of a poor family who doesn't find means to sustain their home and end up being evicted from it. When the youngest of the seven children overhears his parents conversation about this sad situation, he cries for a while. But barely everyone knew, that he was about to come up with a thoughtful idea that could restore their peace and bring back their home.
A boy helps a convict to escape after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. This film is lost.
An adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel.