title: The Unbeliever

overview: A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

title: The Unbeliever

title: The Unbeliever

character: Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz

character: Virginie Harbrok

character: Philip Landicutt

character: Margaret Landicutt

character: “Uncle Jemmy” Landicutt

character: Hoffman, the German gardener

character: “Lefty”

character: Albert Mullins

character: Captain Thomas Sterrett (as Captain Thomas Sterrett)

character: Eugene Harbrok, a Belgium scout

character: Madam Harbrok

character: Pierre Harbrok, their son

character: Emanuel Müller

character: Commanding officer of the Marine Sector

character: Marianne Marnholm

character: Lieut. Terence O’Shaughnessey

original_title: The Unbeliever


title: Dull Care

status: Released

overview: Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.

title: Dull Care

title: Ridolini e gli apaches

character: Larry, a Detective

type: Cast

character: Chief Crook

character: Chief of Police

character: Chief of Police's Wife

character: A Janitor

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Producer

department: Production

original_title: Dull Care

original_language: xx


title: The Villain

type: Backdrop

type: Poster

overview: In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He's still imitating Chaplin, but this time he's playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances (e.g. Mabel at the Wheel), the ones where Charlie himself seemed to be imitating the studio's recently departed Ford Sterling. Throughout this short there is much spoofing of old-time melodramas, a frequent motif of Sterling's comedies.

title: The Villain

title: The Villain

title: Ο κακός

character: The Villain

character: Nell

character: Florence

character: Nell's Sweetheart

character: Unknown role

job: Editor

department: Editing

job: Director of Photography

department: Camera

original_title: The Villain


title: His Day Out

overview: In this film, West escapes a couple of cops and fights for the hand of Leatrice Joy with Oliver Hardy (doing his best Eric Campell). A barber by trade, our tramp serves his boorish clientele with similarly bad manners before the whole crowd attends a swanky Barbers' Ball.

title: His Day Out

title: Его лучший день

overview: В этом фильме Билли Уэст (подражатель Чарли Чаплина) лихо бегает от пары полицейских, работает парикмахером и развлекается на танцевальной вечеринке.

character: Billy

character: Joy

character: Ollie

character: Feminine Customer

original_title: His Day Out

title: Билли парикмахер

country: RU

title: Его выход в свет


title: The Tiger's Coat

overview: The film begins in the southern California home of Alexander MacAllister (Lawson Butt) where he is confronting Andrew Hyde (Miles McCarthy) who is accused of crooked dealings. Alexander threatens to expose Hyde, and Hyde defies him to do his worst. A banker friend tells MacAllister, "Why don't you get married?" They are interrupted by an unexpected caller on that rainy evening, a young lady, Jean Ogilvie, the daughter of a Scotsman family friend from Mexico. He puts her up and later remarks that she has dark skin for a Scottish lass. "Mexican sun," she explains. "I expected to find an old man," Jean remarks to herself.

title: The Tiger's Coat

title: The Tiger's Coat

overview: De film begint in het huis van Alexander MacAllister (Lawson Butt) in Zuid-Californië, waar hij Andrew Hyde (Miles McCarthy) confronteert, die beschuldigd wordt van louche praktijken. Alexander dreigt Hyde te ontmaskeren, waarop Hyde hem uitdaagt en zegt dat hij zijn uiterste best moet doen. Een bevriende bankier zegt tegen MacAllister: "Waarom trouw je niet?" Op die regenachtige avond worden ze onderbroken door een onverwachte bezoeker: een jonge vrouw, Jean Ogilvie, de dochter van een Schotse familievriend uit Mexico. Hij biedt haar onderdak en merkt later op dat ze een donkere huidskleur heeft voor een Schots meisje. "De Mexicaanse zon," legt ze uit. "Ik had verwacht een oude man aan te treffen," zegt Jean in zichzelf.

job: Novel

job: Screenplay

original_title: The Tiger's Coat


title: The Bakery

overview: Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owner to fall into a vat of cake batter Larry finds his job in jeopardy, but he redeems himself by foiling a robbery planned by the bakery foreman.

title: The Bakery

title: Пекарня

overview: Ларри работает в пекарне. Однажды владелец заведения и его дочь посещают заведение и обнаруживают кражу денег управляющим. Ларри бросается на поиск денег и поимку преступника.

character: Larry, a Bakery Clerk

character: Foreman (as Babe Hardy)

character: Bakery Owner

character: Bakery Owner's Daughter

character: Rival worker (as Bill Hauber)

character: Bakery worker

character: Customer

character: Bit Part (uncredited)

original_title: The Bakery


title: The Fall Guy

overview: Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

title: The Fall Guy

title: Козел отпущения

overview: Ларри развозит почту на "диком западе", куда уже проник прогресс - ковбои вместо лошадей ездят на автомобилях и едят мороженое. В небольшом городке его принимают за грабителя, но он поймает настоящего преступника. Пародия на вестерны тех лет.

title: Ridolini ispettore

title: The Fall Guy

overview: Korte film: Larry komt in botsing met de gezochte crimineel Gentleman Joe, die een salon vol stoere jongens en scherpschutters runt.

character: Larry, the Fall Guy

character: Gentleman Joe, alias Black Bart (as Babe Hardy)

character: Prima Donna

character: Sheriff

character: (as Bill Hauber)

job: Assistant Director

job: Story

original_title: The Fall Guy


title: Lichtspiel: Opus I

overview: Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes move into or across the screen in harmony with the musical score.

title: Lichtspiel: Opus I

title: 作品1号

original_title: Lichtspiel: Opus I


title: Marizza

overview: All men are under lovely Maritza's spell.Tired of working for the old woman Yelina, who forces her to cajole customs officials to help the smugglers, she flees and finds work at Mrs. Avricolos' farm. Mostly lost, one reel survives.

title: Marizza

title: Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna

title: 玛丽莎

overview: 故事发生在南斯拉夫边境的走私地带：美丽、野性、自由的年轻女子 Marizza 生活在走私者中间，被人们称作 “走私者的圣母”。她在不同男人之间摇摆：  深爱她的贫穷青年 ，有权势、危险的走私头目，代表秩序与法律的军官，在爱情、欲望、忠诚与法律的冲突下，她的命运被卷入一场充满激情与危险的风暴，最终走向悲剧。  影片充满南欧风情、浓烈的情欲张力、宿命感，是茂瑙作品里少见的异域浪漫悲剧。

title: Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna

overview: Alle mannen zijn in de ban van de mooie Marizza. Ze is het beu om voor de oude vrouw Yelina te werken, die haar dwingt douanebeambten over te halen de smokkelaars te helpen. Ze vlucht en vindt werk op de boerderij van mevrouw Avricolos. Deze laatste doet zaken met een gewetenloze geldschieter, wiens dochter is beloofd aan Leone, de oudste zoon van het gezin. Maar Leone zal snel vallen voor Marizza...

title: Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna

character: Marizza

character: Mrs. Avricolos

character: Grischuk

original_title: Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna

title: Marizza, Called the Smugglers' Madonna

country: US


title: Mixed Nuts

overview: Nuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.

title: Mixed Nuts

title: Mixed Nuts

character: Book salesman

character: Doctor

character: Drunk

character: Asylum Officer

original_title: Mixed Nuts


title: The Counter Jumper

overview: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.

title: The Counter Jumper

character: Larry, the Counter Jumper

character: Glorietta Hope

character: Gaston Gilligan

character: A Clerk

character: Bit Role (uncredited)

job: Cinematography

department: Crew

original_title: The Counter Jumper


title: A Pair of Kings

overview: A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

title: A Pair of Kings

title: Парочка королей

overview: В этом фильме сразу два Ларри: один - король, по некоторым данным, узурпировавший престол, второй - бродяга, случайно приплывший в город на корабле. На короля готовится покушение. Случайно встретив своего двойника, король меняется с ним местами и исчезает... Харди играет главаря заговорщиков.

title: Ridolini granduca

character: King August / Stranger

character: Princess Lucille

character: General Alarm

character: Bit Role

original_title: A Pair of Kings


title: Down to the Sea in Ships

overview: Being the story of the Morgans, a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family, their tightly-knit Quaker community, and the dangerous adventures of an unwilling stowaway aboard one of the elder Morgan's harvest vessels.

title: Down to the Sea in Ships

title: По морю на кораблях

overview: У благочестивого квакера Уильяма Моргана, владельца флотилии китобойных судов, есть красавица-дочь Пейшенс и строптивая внучка Дот, которая обещает превратиться из сорванца-подростка в женственную девушку. Против Моргана плетут интригу некие Финнер и Сиггс. Они хотят угнать корабль Моргана, чтобы перевозить на нем африканское золото, и кроме того похитить его дочь. Финнер наряжает Сиггса квакером и устраивает его на работу к Моргану. Быстро продвигаясь по службе, тот завоевывает доверие хозяина, получает доступ к его дочери и делает Пейшенс предложение.

title: Down to the Sea in Ships

title: Ar kuģi jūrā

character: Patience Morgan

character: Thomas Allan Dexter

character: William W. Morgan

character: 'Dot' Morgan

character: Jimmy

character: 'Scruff' Smith

character: Jake Finner

character: Samuel Siggs

character: The Town Crier

character: 'Henny' Clark

character: Thunderbolt Bill

job: Music

department: Sound

original_title: Down to the Sea in Ships


title: Felix Revolts

name: Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel) - Trailer

site: Vimeo

type: Trailer

overview: After enduring various indignities by the human population in town, including getting beaten up by the fish market owner and forced to eat hot mustard by a customer in a restaurant, Felix finally breaks when he hears the mayor give a speech vowing to drive all cats out of town. Felix gathers his feline friends and stages a revolution to restore cats to their rightful place in society.

title: Felix Revolts

original_title: Felix Revolts

title: Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #?)


title: The Midnight Cabaret

overview: The Midnight Cabaret is a short 1923 American comedy starring Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.

title: The Midnight Cabaret

title: Ridolini al tabarin

character: Larry, a Waiter

character: Oliver, an Impetuous Suitor

character: Kathleen, a Cabaret Performer

job: Presenter

original_title: The Midnight Cabaret


title: No Wedding Bells

overview: Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.

title: No Wedding Bells

character: Larry

character: The Girl

character: The Girl's Father

character: The Butler

character: An Irate Husband

character: Bit Role (uncredited)

original_title: No Wedding Bells


title: Horseshoes

overview: A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups--including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato--winds up in the ring with him but, with the aid of some strategically placed horseshoes, manages to knock the boxer out. When he comes to and finds out what happened, the outraged boxer sets out after Larry.

title: Horseshoes

title: Ridolini pugilista

character: Dynamite Duffy

original_title: Horseshoes


title: Is Money Everything?

overview: A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become successful, but that success brings other, unforeseen problems into their lives.

title: Is Money Everything?

character: John Brand

character: Marion Brand

character: Mrs. Justine Pelham

character: Roy Pelham

character: Sam Slack

character: Rev. John Brooks

character: Phil Graham

original_title: Is Money Everything?


title: Save The Ship

overview: 'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a run of the mill production to pay his bills and as a token by Hal Roach.

title: Save The Ship

title: Save The Ship

character: Husband

character: Wife

character: Father-in-law

character: Mother-in-law

job: Camera Operator

job: Props

department: Art

original_title: Save The Ship


title: The Gown Shop

overview: Here we have 'The Gown Shop', very much in Semon's usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I'm going to be using the word 'grotesque' a lot in this particular review.) This time round, he blunders into a boutique. After causing some damage he can't pay for, Larry is put to work as a general dogsbody. Mayhem ensues.

title: The Gown Shop

title: Ridolini e le modelle

character: Larry, a salesman

character: Store manager

original_title: The Gown Shop


title: Under Two Jags

overview: Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, but there is also a demure lady who wins his affections.

title: Under Two Jags

title: Under Two Jags

original_title: Under Two Jags


title: The Soilers

overview: During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.

title: The Soilers

title: Stan és Pan: Aranyásók

overview: Nálunk csak Stan és Pan-ként ismert Stan Laurel és Oliver Hardy, a kölyökképû, ártatlan mosolyú, csetlõ-botló és a nagydarab, mindig dühös "fõnök" csaknem kétszáz, hosszabb-rövidebb vígjátékban és komikus jelenetben szórakoztatták a nagyérdemût.

title: Le héros de l'Alaska

overview: Au cours de la ruée vers l'or en Alaska, un mineur frappe la mère Lode, mais un shérif corrompu saute sa demande, conduisant à un formidable combat.

title: Старатели

overview: Аляска. Времена золотой лихорадки. Боб Канистра старатель, но в стране полно проходимцев, негодяев и мелких жуликов. С помощью продажного шерифа и судьи адвокат Смакнамара отбирает у Канистры его участок. После недолгих скитаний по городу, так же полному мошенников и не слишком удачной попытки расправиться со своими врагами, Канистра решает отомстить Смакнамаре и вызывает его на честный бой, в просторечии именуемый дракой.

character: Bob Canister

character: Girl

character: Woman In Saloon

character: Smacknamara

character: Prospector

job: Title Graphics

original_title: The Soilers


title: Collars and Cuffs

overview: Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

title: Collars and Cuffs

title: Stanlio lavandaio

overview: Cortometraggio muto dal titolo originale "Collars and Cuffs". Stanlio combina un sacco di guai nella lavanderia dove lavora.

title: Collars and Cuffs

overview: Stomme korte film met de oorspronkelijke titel 'Collars and Cuffs'. Laurel zorgt voor veel overlast in de wasserij waar hij werkt.

character: Laundry Worker

character: Foreman

character: Pedestrian

original_title: Collars and Cuffs


title: Pick and Shovel

overview: Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.

title: Pick and Shovel

title: Pico y pala

overview: Surge un problema cuando un hombre incompetente, interpretado por Stan Laurel, va a trabajar a "una mina sin valor" y se enamora de la hija del jefe.

character: Miner

character: The Foreman

character: The Foreman's Daughter

character: The Boss

original_title: Pick and Shovel


title: The Noon Whistle

overview: Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with Stan trying to sneak into work late--past the violent and rather insane supervisor. Later, however, Stan walks into a plot to steal the company away and frame the owner for a crime he did not commit.

title: The Noon Whistle

title: The Noon Whistle

overview: The Noon Whistle ist eine amerikanische Kurzfilmkomödie von 1923 mit Stan Laurel

original_title: The Noon Whistle


title: A Man About Town

overview: A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.

title: A Man About Town

title: A Man About Town

overview: Een onhandige jongeman die van de ene tram op de andere wil overstappen, krijgt te horen dat hij een aantrekkelijke jongedame moet volgen – en zo volgt hij haar door de hele stad.

character: A Man About Town

character: Humko, Store Detective

character: The Girl

character: Shop Assistant

character: Cross-eyed Barber

character: Cop

character: Minor Role (uncredited)

original_title: A Man About Town


title: White Wings

overview: Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist.

title: White Wings

title: Bílá křídla

overview: Stan je pouliční uklízeč a omylem si vymění vozík s odpadky za kočárek jedné dámy...

character: Street Cleaner

character: Dental Patient

character: Nurse

character: Cross-Eyed Man

original_title: White Wings

title: Stan Laurel doktorem

country: CZ


title: Short Orders

overview: Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and others. However, in two cute scenes, the film shines. The first is a Limburger cheese bit that is low-brow but funny. The second is the final scene with dogs following Stan at the end.

title: Short Orders

title: Short Orders

character: Waiter

character: Cashier

character: Cafe Owner

character: Chef

character: Customer

original_title: Short Orders


title: Kill or Cure

overview: Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this movie dates from 1923, the shank of Prohibition. During Prohibition, quite a lot of Americans purchased patent medicine if it had (ahem!) 'medicinal' properties, so -- if Knox-All contains alcohol.

title: Kill or Cure

title: Kill or Cure

overview: Kill or Cure ist eine amerikanische Kurzfilm - Komödie von 1923 mit Stan Laurel in einer Einzelrolle.

title: Kill or Cure

original_title: Kill or Cure


title: Rupert of Hee-Haw

title: Rupert of Hee-Haw

character: King / Rudolph Razz

character: Rupert of Hee Haw

character: Princess

character: Short Officer

character: Hee Haw's Maid

character: Palace Guard

character: Duke of Aspirin

character: Duke of Bromo

original_title: Rupert of Hee-Haw


title: Her Boy Friend

overview: Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.

title: Her Boy Friend

title: Son petit ami

overview: Méthode Jeune et belle Iva espionne pour la police au Dropem Inn, un club sordide que le suspect de la police est un front pour une opération de contrebande dirigé par gangster Slim Chance. Chance découvre l'identité de Iva et la kidnappe, et le chef de la police envoie son fils un peu maladroit à son secours.

character: Larry, the Chief's son

character: Killer Kid

character: Iva Method, the girl detective

character: The Vamp

character: Dock worker

character: HQ Hank

character: Slim Chance

original_title: Her Boy Friend

title: Los señores de la secreta

country: ES

title: Her Boyfriend


title: Two Stars in the Milky Way

overview: This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) and Ying (Violet Wong). They meet after hearing Ying sing while another movie is being shot. You, of course, don't get to hear the song, but it catches people's attention. Once they meet and work together, they fall in love. Is it forever?

title: Two Stars in the Milky Way

title: Актер и актриса

overview: Ян, известный актер, встречает Ли, симпатичную певицу, которая должна сыграть с ним в экранизации старой китайской пьесы. Фильм пользуется успехом у обоих актеров, которые вскоре становятся идеальной парой и в реальной жизни... Но Ян забыл упомянуть, что он уже женат. Разочарованная Ли покидает мир кино и возвращается в деревню, чтобы жить со своим отцом.

title: 银汉双星

overview:
李旭东（宗惟康 饰）是一位非常富有才华的音乐家，创作出了“楼东怨”，他的女儿李月英常常喜欢唱这首歌。一天，李月英的歌声被银汉公司的工作人员凑巧听到，惊为天人，他们看到了李月英身上隐藏的商业价值和无限潜力，邀请她加入公司。在层层的包装之下，李月英以歌星的身份出现在了大众的视野之中。
 楼东怨一曲成名，之后银汉公司决定趁热打铁拍摄电影版，他们请来了当时最有名的影星杨倚云作为李月英的搭档出演此片，在拍摄电影的过程中，李月英和杨倚云之间碰撞出了暧昧的情愫。然而，杨倚云在老家已经结婚成家，为了保证李月英的清白，他主动选择了离开。

title: 銀漢雙星

overview: Dit is een stomme film uit China, gemaakt in 1931. Het gaat over twee hoofdrollen in een film, Yan (Raymond King) en Ying (Violet Wong). Ze ontmoeten elkaar nadat ze Ying hebben horen zingen terwijl er een andere film wordt opgenomen. Je krijgt het nummer natuurlijk niet te horen, maar het trekt de aandacht van mensen. Zodra ze elkaar ontmoeten en samenwerken, worden ze verliefd.

original_title: 銀漢雙星

title: Song of the Fishermen

title: Yinhe shuangxing

country: CN

title: An Actor and an Actress

title: 银汉双星


title: Inventory of the Motherland

overview: Filmmaker Ben van Lieshout was inspired by the work from Sergei Prokoedin-Gorski (1863-1944), inventor of the color photography in Russia.

title: Inventory of the Motherland

original_title: Inventaris van het moederland


name: A Visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s Biscuit Works (1906) - extract

site: YouTube

type: Clip

overview: A look at typical activities taking place in the Peek Frean factory: First, the workers get up steam, as supplies of milk and flour arrive. Sheets of dough are rolled, then cut, shaped, and readied for baking. The camera then continues to show further events throughout the work day.

title: Látogatás a Peek Frean sütigyárban

country: HU


title: Hungu

overview: Under the African sun, a child walks in the desert with his kin. Death is prowling, but a mother's soul resurrected by music will return strength and life to the child when he becomes a man. Inspired by the grace and raw beauty of African rock paintings, Nicolas Brault paints a story without borders, with the humanity and elegance of a universal narrator.

title: Hungu

title: Hungu

original_title: Hungu


title: Beginning

overview: Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.

title: Beginning

title: Начало

overview: Философское эссе об октябрьской революции 1917 года и ее влиянии на судьбу мира в XX-ом веке.

title: Au début

overview: Essai philosophique sur la révolution d'octobre 1917 en Russie, son influence sur le destin du monde au XXe siècle.

title: Սկիզբը

title: 开始

title: El principio

overview: Filosófico ensayo sobre la Revolución de Octubre de 1917 en Rusia y su influencia sobre el destino del mundo en el siglo XX.

original_title: Սկիզբը

title: Au début

country: FR

title: Nachalo

country: SU

title: L'inizio

country: IT

title: Начало

title: Սկիզբը

country: AM

title: Skizbe


title: Lullaby

overview: At a noisy inn, a young servant woman tries to sing a baby to sleep. The innkeeper and his wife berate and abuse the servant. Later that night, in hunger, misery, and desperation, she leaves and wanders through a Chagal-like landscape. The baby's cries wake up the innkeeper and his wife. Where has the woman gone? For whom is the lullaby?

title: Lullaby

original_title: Lullaby


title: They All Fall

overview: They All Fall is a 1925 American slapstick comedy film featuring Bobby Ray & Oliver Hardy.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

title: They All Fall

character: The assistant janitor

character: The boss

original_title: They All Fall


title: The Mystic

name: The Mystic (1925, Tod Browning - Dir., Aileen Pringle, Drama)

type: Featurette

name: Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film The Mystic - Trailer (featuring Dean Hurley score)

overview: Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes—and proceeds to swindle—American high society.

title: The Mystic

title: La sorcière

overview: Un criminel américain fait venir une bande de gitans hongrois pour prendre le contrôle d'un butin. La victime, Doris Merrick, est persuadée par un faux médium, Zara, de remettre ses bijoux à Nash.

title: 不可思议

overview: 《不可思议》是托德·布朗宁艺术发展中极具氛围感但鲜为人知的缺失环节，背景设定在他钟爱的阴暗旅游表演和狡猾罪犯之间。这部电影给了默片时代女明星艾琳·普林格（Aileen Pringle）一个出色的舞台，她扮演匈牙利嘉年华上假冒通灵者扎拉（Zara），身着一系列令人难忘的离经叛道的造型。在骗子指引下，她闯入并开始欺诈美国上流社会。布朗宁对怪异事物的迷恋完全展现在那些诡异降神场景中，而他颠覆性的道德模棱两可甚至向看似无法挽救的反英雄们表达了意外同情。

title: Zara la mística

overview: Michael Nash, un granuja norteamericano de paso por Hungría, convence a Zara, una pitonisa de feria, y a sus compinches para que le acompañen a los Estados Unidos con el fin de robarle su fortuna a una heredera. Su técnica: una sesión de espiritismo amañada en la que el difunto padre de la chica "le da instrucciones" para que se deshaga de sus acciones y joyas.

title: Amor e Magia

character: Zara

character: Michael Nash

character: Zazarack

character: Anton

character: Carlo

character: James Bradshaw

character: Doris Merrick

character: Director of Police

character: Woman in Seance (uncredited)

character: Sideshow Spectator (uncredited)

job: Costume Designer

department: Costume & Make-Up

job: Assistant Camera

job: Art Direction

job: Adaptation

job: Original Music Composer

original_title: The Mystic


title: Somewhere In Wrong

overview: Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.

title: Somewhere In Wrong

character: A tramp

character: The farmer's daughter

character: A suitor

job: Director

job: Producer

original_title: Somewhere In Wrong


title: The Perfect Clown

overview: A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.

title: The Perfect Clown

character: Bert Larry

character: Mrs. Sally Mulligan

character: The Girl

character: Her Chum

character: The Boss

character: Snowball (as G. Howe Black)

character: Babe Mulligan

character: Tiny Tott

character: Bellhop (uncredited)

character: Cop (uncredited)

original_title: The Perfect Clown


title: Navy Blue Days

overview: Stationed in a Latin American country, sailor Stan is lonely and wants company. He tries to get his Chief to bring him along to a dinner the Chief has been invited to, but the Chief wants nothing to do with Stan.

title: Navy Blue Days

title: Navy Blue Days

character: Stan

character: Grenadine

character: Peter Vermicelli

character: Spanish Vamp flirting with Stan

job: Writer

original_title: Navy Blue Days


title: Crazy Like a Fox

overview: Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

title: Crazy Like a Fox

title: La volpe della risata

overview: I genitori di Martha hanno deciso di farla sposare con un uomo che lei nemmeno conosce; il suo nome è Wilson. Lei è contraria e decide di fuggire a Philadelphia. Wilson e Martha si vedranno per la prima volta alla stazione a causa di uno scambio di valigie, il che fa nascere un grosso equivoco, datosi che i due non si sono mai visti! Quando lei se ne va il maggiordomo personale ricorda a Wilson che sta per sposarsi, ma lui non ne vuole sapere; così decide di fingersi matto per mandare a monte le nozze. Un passante (Hardy) s'imbatte in lui e spaventato corre a chiamare il manicomio. Intanto Wilson è già arrivato ed entrato nella casa della futura sposa, dove sorgeranno altre mille peripezie

title: Crazy Like a Fox

title: Fou comme un renard

overview: Deux riches capitalistes veulent marier leurs enfants, mais ils ne l'aiment l'idée du tout. Elle essaie de fuir, et le rencontre à la gare. Ils tombent amoureux, à l'insu de leur véritable identité, et de décider chacun de leur qu'ils doivent détruire leur plan de parents. Il demande à son valet de chambre, de mettre un petit post-scriptum de sa lettre d'introduction, en déclarant qu'il est fou et a parfois (au moins six fois par jour) sorts fous. Pour essayer cela, il utilise une victime innocente, qui promptement téléphones l'asile d'aliénés, que l'un de leurs patients est sur le lâche. A ses futurs beaux-parents le droit de la maison, il agit fou, jusqu'au moment où il découvre, qui la fiancée est vraiment. Son père complètement choqué demande au médecin de famille sur la façon de se comporter avec un fou et reçoit les conseils d'agir fou elle-même, suit, et est rapidement transporté à l'asile d'aliénés.

character: Wilson

character: The bride

character: George

character: Mother

character: Gov. Harrison

character: Butler

character: Mr. Gloom - the Valet

character: Charley's Victim (uncredited)

character: Man with Badge on Train (uncredited)

character: Hospital Orderly (uncredited)

character: Rotund Conductor (uncredited)

character: Family Doctor (uncredited)

character: Conductor (uncredited)

character: Nurse (uncredited)

job: Title Designer

job: Editor

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Crazy Like a Fox

title: Matto come una volpe


title: The Nickel-Hopper

overview: Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.

title: The Nickel-Hopper

title: Инструктор танцев

overview: Пэдди по ночам за гроши работает инструктором танцев в клубе, а днём моет полы и сидит с чужими детьми. Ещё и её отец выгонят всех парней, которые хотят с ней познакомиться. И вот однажды Пэдди знакомится с ищущим приключений богачом.

character: Paddy

character: Paddy's father

character: Jimmy Jessop

character: Jazz band drummer

character: Dance Hall Masher

character: Rupert

character: Baby

original_title: The Nickel-Hopper


title: Sweat

overview: A beautiful piece of aesthetic work with sweat as a thread. But no one sweats for the same reasons. This ode to sweat, in slow-motion shots with a rhytmic musical accompaniment, presents the daily cycle of a man (and a woman), which is at a certain level also a cycle of life.

title: Sweat

title: 한

character: Man

original_title: 한

title: Svett

country: SE

title: Han

country: KR


title: Compline

overview: "Compline is a night devotion or prayer, the last of the canonical hours, the final act in a cycle. This film is also the last film I will be able to shoot in Kodachrome, a film stock I have shot since I was 10 years old. It is a loving duet with and a fond farewell to this noble emulsion." - Nathaniel Dorsky

title: Compline

original_title: Compline


title: Evolution

overview: A humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.

title: Evolution

title: Эволюция

overview: Образовательное и поучительное кино от аниматора и режиссера Майкла Миллса предлагает юмористическое изображение эволюции как она есть — от одноклеточных водорослей до современного человека. Фильм начинается с того, что клетки живых организмов в океане преобразовываются в более развитые организмы. Без слов и каких-либо комментариев мультфильм показывает, как появились и развивались первые существа на Земле. Эволюция движется вперед, и мир не стоит на месте. Впереди — рассвет цивилизации и появление современных людей. Картина Миллса номинировалась на премию Американской киноакадемии и получила около сорока национальных премий.

job: Sound Editor

original_title: Evolution


title: The Cloud of Unknowing

overview: The boundary between viewer and art dissolves in Ho Tzu Nyen’s sublime work, The Cloud of Unknowing. Step inside and find a comfortable space in the room. On a screen, a narrative unfolds, set in a public housing complex in Singapore, where eight characters in eight apartments individually encounter a cloud, embodied both as a figure and a vaporous mist. The film is rear-projected and looped, integrating a complex soundtrack and synchronized steam machines to create a seamless and sublimely atmospheric sense of film/audience permeability.  (Sundance Film Festival)

title: The Cloud of Unknowing

job: Production Design

original_title: The Cloud of Unknowing


title: Sandow: The Strong Man

overview: Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.

title: Sandow: The Strong Man

title: Sandow: The Strong Man

character: Himself

original_title: Sandow: The Strong Man

title: Sandow, az erős ember

title: Сэндоу, современный Геркулес

title: Sandow, No. 1

title: Sandow, the Modern Hercules

title: Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope


title: It's a Gift

overview: A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives in a home filled with his eccentric inventions. When he gets the message from the oil company, he is excited about the opportunity to demonstrate his innovation.

title: It's a Gift

title: It's a Gift

character: Inventor

character: The Girl

character: Weller Pump, oil executive

character: Customer

character: Swindler

original_title: It's a Gift

title: Es una ganga


title: Short Kilts

overview: As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.

title: Short Kilts

title: Short Kilts

overview: Tra due famiglie scozzesi: i McPherson e i McGregor nasce un'intensa rivalità. Il primogenito della prima famiglia (Laurel) s'innamora della sorella di quello (Finlayson) della seconda, e a quest'altro accade la stessa cosa. Tutto comincia durante una festa a casa dei McPherson, in cui vengono invitati i McGregor...

title: Stan és Pan: A skót szoknya

overview: Némafilm. Nálunk csak Stan és Pan-ként ismert Stan Laurel és Oliver Hardy, a kölyökképű, ártatlan mosolyú, csetlő-botló és a nagydarab, mindig dühös "főnök" csaknem kétszáz, hosszabb-rövidebb vígjátékban és komikus jelenetben szórakoztatták a nagyérdeműt.

title: Kilt courts

overview: Comme une façon de faire la paix entre deux clans écossais vendetta, on invite l'autre à souper, mais les choses ne se passent pas tout à fait comme prévu.

character: McPherson's Son

character: McGregor's Son

character: McPherson's Kid

character: McGregor's Daughter

character: Blacksmith

character: McGregor's Kid

character: McGregor

character: McPherson

character: McHungry's Son

character: McHungry

character: Mrs. McHungry

original_title: Short Kilts


title: Sold for Marriage

overview: A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, to his surprise, that the American police, unlike those of his native country, are not oppressors of the poor, but friends that will aid in securing the release of his beloved Marfa.

title: Sold for Marriage

character: Marfa

character: Jan

character: Col. Gregioff

character: Ivan

character: Anna

character: Dimitri

character: George

character: A Policeman

character: The Undesirable Suitor

character: Nicholas

original_title: Sold for Marriage


title: Cupid's Rival

overview: A bumbling janitor in a fleabag hotel drives the residents crazy, and a poor artist believes that his girlfriend is having an affair with a wealthy artist living across the hall, and takes unorthodox measures to find out what's going on.

title: Cupid's Rival

character: Janitor

character: Janitor's wife

character: Poor Artist

character: Poor Artists' Sweetheart

character: Rich Artist

character: Bell Boy

character: A Model

character: Landlord

character: Dancer

original_title: Cupid's Rival


title: Ö

overview: A creature finds a little island in the middle of the endless sea. He sets up his own empire, builds a wall and drives away intruders.

title: Ö

original_title: Ö


title: Athlete with Wand

overview: An athlete demonstrating various poses.

title: Athlete with Wand

original_title: Athlete with Wand


title: The Fire Brigade

overview: Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.

title: The Fire Brigade

character: Helen Corwin

character: Terry O'Neil

character: James Corwin

character: Joe O'Neil

character: Jim O'Neil

character: Capt. O'Neil

character: Bridget

character: Fire Chief Wallace

character: Peg Leg Murphy

character: Thomas Wainright

character: Orphan

character: Bit part (uncredited)

character: Self (uncredited)

character: Butler (uncredited)

original_title: The Fire Brigade


title: Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

overview: Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.

title: Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

title: Луис Мартинетти, конторционист

character: Himself

original_title: Luis Martinetti, Contortionist

title: Луи Мартинетти, человек-змея


title: Fire Rescue Scene

overview: "Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog

title: Fire Rescue Scene

original_title: Fire Rescue Scene

title: Спасение из огня


title: Billy Edwards and the Unknown

overview: Former lightweight boxer Billy Edwards, now a trainer and writer of the sport, takes on a challenger named Warwick in an exhibition match. The match is scheduled for five rounds of 20 seconds each. A large crowd has gathered behind the ring to watch the fight.

title: Billy Edwards and the Unknown

title: Billy Edwards and the Unknown

overview: Voormalig lichtgewicht bokser Billy Edwards, nu trainer en schrijver van de sport, neemt het op tegen een uitdager genaamd Warwick in een oefenwedstrijd. De wedstrijd duurt vijf ronden van elk 20 seconden. Een grote menigte heeft zich achter de ring verzameld om het gevecht te aanschouwen.

title: Билли Эдвардс и неизвестный

original_title: Billy Edwards and the Unknown

title: Billy Edwards Boxing

title: Billy Edwards and Warwick

title: Билли Эдвардс и неизвестный


title: Amy Muller

overview: Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the performance. Later, she also twirls and does cartwheels.

title: Amy Muller

character: Herself

original_title: Amy Muller


title: Shooting the Chutes

overview: The camera shows a water ride at Bergen Beach at Coney Island. A raised track filled with water forms a chute, and a small boat full of park visitors slides down the chute. Alongside, empty boats are hauled back up to the top of the ride.

title: Shooting the Chutes

original_title: Shooting the Chutes

title: Shooting the Chutes at Coney Island


title: Watermelon Contest

overview: Two men have a contest to see which one can be the first to eat a large slice of watermelon.

title: Watermelon Contest

original_title: Watermelon Contest

title: Watermelon Eating Contest


title: Sand

overview: Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.

title: Sand

character: Dan Kurrie

character: Margaret Young

character: Joseph Garber

character: Josie Kirkwood

character: Pete Beckett

character: Superintendent Trapp

character: Kurrie's Horse (uncredited)

job: Story

original_title: Sand

title: Son meilleur ami


title: Son-in-Law

overview: This comedy has a country bumpkin hero Gobardhan visiting his parents-in-law in Calcutta. Mistaking a 'No Nuisance' sign for an address, he gets lost trying to find his friend Amal's room. His subsequent adventures take him to famous locations including Howrah Bridge, the Victoria Memorial and the Maidan. Gobardhan evntually finds his in-laws, feigns illness to prolong his stay, is beaten up when he tries to sneak into his wife's room and gets mistaken for a thief.

title: Son-in-Law

character: Gobardhan

character: Amal (as Pravat Kumar)

character: Upen Babu

character: Niva, Gobardhan's Wife (as Radha Rani)

character: Amal's Friend

character: Chaya

original_title: Jamaibabu

title: Son-in-Law


title: Game of Waves

name: Spiel der wellen (Lotte Lendesdorff & Walter Ruttmann-1926)

overview: Promotional film for "AEG".

title: Game of Waves

original_title: Spiel der Wellen

title: Juego de ondas


title: Be Your Age

overview: Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.

title: Be Your Age

character: Charley - the Bashful Clerk

character: Oswald Schwartzkopple

character: The Widow's Secretary

character: Mrs. Schwartzkopple

character: Mr. Blaylock

character: The Minister (uncredited)

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Be Your Age


title: The Kid Stakes

overview: Fatty Finn is the six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo. They enter Fatty's pet goat Hector in the annual goat derby, but his rival Bruiser Murphy lets the goat loose before the race. After a series of adventures, Fatty finds the runaway goat and persuades a friendly aviator to fly him to the race-track in time for the main event.

title: The Kid Stakes

character: Fatty Finn

character: Tiny King

character: Jimmy Kelly

character: Bruiser Murphy

character: Shooey Shugg

character: Betty Briggs

character: Seasy

character: Constable Claffey

character: Headlights Hogan

character: Self

original_title: The Kid Stakes


title: Going to the Fire

overview: A crowd watches the Newark Fire Department respond to a call.

title: Going to the Fire

original_title: Going to the Fire

title: Going to the Fire

title: New York Fire Brigade

country: GB

title: Starting for the Fire


title: The Morning Alarm

overview: “This shows the Fire Department leaving headquarters for an early morning fire. The scene is remarkable for its natural effect. The opening of the engine house doors, the prancing of the horses, and even the startled expression upon the faces of the spectators are all clearly depicted.” -Edison Films, 1897.  150 ft. strip, filmed December 25, 1896 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

title: The Morning Alarm

original_title: The Morning Alarm

title: Harrisburg Fire Run


title: Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

overview: The kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic animals dressed up like circus animals was very cute--particularly the dachshund dressed as a seal! However, the animals all get loose and terrorize the hotel guests--including a drunk played by Oliver Hardy.

title: Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

character: Joe

character: Jackie

character: Jean

character: Farina

character: Wheezer

character: Jay

character: Harry

character: Pete

character: Little Egypt

character: Our Gang member

original_title: Barnum & Ringling, Inc.


title: Saint Joan the Maid

overview: This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc'. The comparison is unfair: Dreyer was an artist, but director Marco de Gastyne certainly proved himself a distinguished craftsman, and his emphasis on the Maid of Orléans early life in Domrémy serves as a picturesque, matching bookend to Dreyer's impassioned courtroom drama.

title: Saint Joan the Maid

title: 圣女贞德的精彩人生

title: La Merveilleuse Vie de Jeanne d'Arc

overview: Biographie de Jeanne d'Arc depuis son départ de Domremy jusqu'à sa mort à Rouen.

character: Jeanne d'Arc

character: La Hire

character: Nicolas Loyseleur

character: Charles VII

character: Gilles de Rays

character: Lord Glasdall

character: Lord Talbot

original_title: La Merveilleuse Vie de Jeanne d'Arc

title: Saint Joan the Maid

title: La Merveilleuse Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, fille de Lorraine

production_countries: DE FR


title: The Open Road

name: John Brown Shipyard on the Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland (1926)

overview: In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road between Land’s End and John O’Groats. Entitled The Open Road, his remarkable travelogue was conceived as a series of shorts, 26 episodes in all, to be shown weekly at the cinema.  The result is a fascinating portrait of inter-war Britain, in which town and country, people and landscapes are captured as never before, in a truly unique and rich colour palette.

title: The Open Road

character: Himself (uncredited)

original_title: The Open Road


title: Negro Street Dancers

overview: Five black and white minstrels dancing and playing musical instruments in Rupert Street, London.

title: Negro Street Dancers

title: Nègres dansant dans la rue

overview: Londres, Rupert Street, devant le Solferino Restaurant : des nègres dansent une danse de leur pays dans une rue de Londres.

title: Nègres dansant dans la rue

overview: Vijf zwart-witte minstrelen die dansen en muziekinstrumenten bespelen in Rupert Street, Londen.

original_title: Nègres dansant dans la rue

title: London Street Arabs Dancing and Singing

title: Gamins des rues de Londres dansant et chantant

title: Negro Minstrels Dancing in the London Streets


title: Baths in the Sea

overview: Swimmers jump into the water from the docks, as a small boat passes by.

title: Baths in the Sea

title: Bains en mer

overview: France, La Ciotat, port du Clos des Plages : les baigneurs se jettent à l’eau d’un port, une barque croise leur chemin.  Sur la jetée, de gauche à droite : Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière et ses deux brus, Rose et Marguerite Lumière. Le garçon qui saute est certainement Édouard Lumière.

character: Herself

character: Himself

original_title: Bains en mer

title: Bains dans la mer


title: Bassin des Tuileries

overview: Short of the Tuileries.

title: Bassin des Tuileries

title: Bassin des Tuileries

overview: Des enfants jouent à pousser leur voilier sur l’eau du bassin.

original_title: Bassin des Tuileries


title: Manchester Band of Hope Procession

name: Manchester Band of Hope Procession (1901)

overview: A temperance society decries the demon drink on the streets of Edwardian Manchester.

title: Manchester Band of Hope Procession

original_title: Manchester Band of Hope Procession


title: The Boys Think They Have One on Foxy Grandpa, But He Fools Them

overview: The boys dance to Grandpa's banjo playing, then indicate that he can't equal their skill. Grandpa gets up and performs an intricate step while still playing the banjo.

overview: Korte film: De jongens dansen op opa's banjo spel en geven vervolgens aan dat hij hun vaardigheid niet kan evenaren. Opa staat op en voert een ingewikkelde stap uit terwijl hij nog steeds banjo speelt.

character: Foxy Grandpa

job: Cinematography

title: Foxy papa bendzsón játszik

title: Foxy Grandpa Plays Banjo As Well As He Dances


title: Polidor's First Duel

overview: Polidor learns how to handle a sword for a duel.

title: Polidor's First Duel

title: Il primo duello di Polidor

overview: Polidor leert hoe hij een zwaard moet hanteren voor een duel.

original_title: Il primo duello di Polidor

title: Polidor's First Duel


title: Scamps and Scandals

overview: Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.

title: Scamps and Scandals

title: Ridolini prende moglie

character: Larry

character: Larry's Sweetheart

character: Larry's Sweetheart's Suitor

character: Wedding Guest

character: Policeman

job: Scenario Writer

job: Presenter

original_title: Scamps and Scandals


title: Two

overview: This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute).  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

title: Two

title: Two

overview: Curta sobre dois garotos: um rico e um pobre, onde o garoto pobre tenta fazer amizade com o garoto rico, mas esse por sua vez, só quer se exibir para o menino pobre com todos seus brinquedos de alta classe.

title: Two

overview: Un niño de familia adinerada se aburre en su casa hasta que ve a otro niño callejero que está tocando una flauta, lo que llevará a competir con él.

title: Двое

overview: Индийский черно-белый короткометражный фильм 1964 года режиссера Сатьяджита Рэя. Фильм был снят под эгидой театра Esso World по просьбе некоммерческого американского общественного вещательного телевидения PBS. Он был снят как часть трилогии короткометражных фильмов из Индии. В двух других фильмах трилогии фигурировал индийский исполнитель на ситаре Пандит Рави Шанкар и балетная труппа из Мумбаи, тогда известная как "Бомбей". Рэя, который занимал видное место в бенгальском кинематографе, попросили снять фильм на английском языке с бенгальской обстановкой, однако Рэй, будучи поклонником немого кино, решил снять фильм без каких-либо диалогов, отдавая дань уважения жанру.

title: Deux

overview: L'opposition entre les après-midis de deux enfants, l'un riche et t l'autre pauvre.

title: 两个小孩

overview: 这部短片通过一系列游戏，展现了一个来自棚户区的街头孩子与一个富家孩子之间的相遇——后者始终站在自家窗前。影片没有对白，情节推进全靠两个孩子轮流展示玩具、试图压倒对方的较量。他们的竞争（比如玩具步枪击落风筝的场景）最终演化为两个世界的对立：一方是屋内的喧嚣玩具世界，另一方是街头少年的悠扬笛声。本片于2006年被美国电影艺术与科学学院电影档案馆收录保存。

character: Rich Boy

job: Sound Designer

original_title: দুই

title: Parable of Two


title: Assiettes tournantes

overview: Félicien Trewey, performing his spinning plates routine.

title: Assiettes tournantes

title: 转盘子

job: Camera Operator

original_title: Assiettes tournantes


title: Les Métamorphoses Comiques

name: Комічні метаморфози / Les métamorphoses comiques (Emile Cohl, 1912)

overview: An animation where real life objects turn into animations.

title: Les Métamorphoses Comiques

title: Комічні метаморфози

overview: Одна з найбільш авангардних робіт Еміля Коля. Живі зображення змінюються на анімовані і навпаки.

original_title: Les Métamorphoses Comiques


title: Verdun: Visions of History

overview: A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

title: Verdun: Visions of History

title: Verdun, visions d'histoire

overview: En 1928, Poirier termine son film « Verdun : Visions de l'histoire », un documentaire de fiction sur la bataille de Verdun. Le film a été tourné sur le lieu du carnage. Léon Poirier utilise, pour son film, 10 ans après le conflit, le champ de bataille et les ruines des forts de Vaux et de Douaumont. Les interprètes sont des anciens combattants français et allemands et quelques acteurs professionnels.

title: 凡尔登，历史的幻影

title: Verdun, visions d'histoire

overview: Een gedramatiseerde re-enactment en documentaire van de Slag om Verdun zoals gezien door zowel Franse als Duitse soldaten, opgenomen op de locatie van de daadwerkelijke strijd.

character: The French soldier

character: The German officer

character: The mother

character: The wife

character: The German soldier

character: Marshal of the Empire

character: The boy

character: The young man

character: The husband

character: The intellectual

character: The chaplain

character: The farmer

character: General Petain

character: Self (archive footage)

job: Matte Painter

department: Visual Effects

original_title: Verdun, visions d'histoire

title: 300 Dias no Inferno

country: BR

title: Verdun

country: DK

title: ヴェルダン 歴史の幻想

country: JP

title: Verdun, Visões da História

country: PT

title: Helvetet vid Verdun

title: Verdun: Looking at History


title: Spartacus

overview: The second adaptation of Raffaello Giovagnoli's novel comes at a time when Italy really started pumping out their epic films with the longer running times, expensive sets and lavish production values. This film really doesn't stray too far from the source as we have our hero Spartacus being sold as a slave only to rise up and battle the evil Crassus.

title: Spartacus

title: Спартак

title: Spartacus

original_title: Spartaco

title: Spartacus


title: Two Zeeland Girls in Zandvoort

overview: The adventures of two girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort.

title: Two Zeeland Girls in Zandvoort

title: Twee zeeuwsche meisjes in Zandvoort

original_title: Twee zeeuwsche meisjes in Zandvoort

title: Two Girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort


title: Lourdes, Transporting the Sick, II

overview: Patients on stretchers are lifted off a cart and carried toward the shrine at Lourdes.

title: Lourdes, Transporting the Sick, II

title: Lourdes, transport de malades II

original_title: Lourdes, transport de malades II

title: Transport de malades, II

title: Lourdes, transport de malades, 2

title: Lourdes--malades


title: Danse Tyrolienne

overview: A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

title: Danse Tyrolienne

title: Danse Tyrolienne

overview: Cologne : accompagné par un musicien, un couple en costume tyrolien exécute une danse dans un parc.

original_title: Danse Tyrolienne

title: Schuhplattler-Tanz

country: DE

title: Danse de paysans tyroliens


title: Les chats boxeurs

overview: Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

title: Les chats boxeurs

original_title: Les chats boxeurs


title: Custer's Last Fight

overview: Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

title: Custer's Last Fight

character: General George A. Custer

character: Sitting Bull

character: James McLaughlin

character: Trooper

original_title: Custer's Last Fight


title: The Independence of Romania

overview: The movie depicts the Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878).

title: The Independence of Romania

title: Independența României

overview: Reconstituire, cu ocazia împlinirii a 35 de ani de la evenimente, a principalelor etape ale Războiului de Independență de la 1877, combinată cu scene inspirate din literatura. În finalul filmului apare parada din 10 mai 1912 (filmare de actualitate). Este primul lungmetraj de ficțiune românesc.

title: Независимость Румынии

character: Carol I

character: Principesa Elisabeta

character: Osman Pasa

character: Tarul Alexandru II

character: Penes Curcanul

character: Rodica

job: Screenplay

original_title: Independența României


title: Soap Bubbles

name: Le bolle di sapone - 1911 - Soap Bubbles

overview: While making fun of the frailty of an old lady in the street, a little devil is immediately taken home by the offended policeman who catches him carrying out his nasty prank. Arriving at the child’s home, the keeper of order vehemently lists the facts. However the scallywag doesn’t bow to authority and stands up to the policeman, even mocking his mother who he leaves in despair. But soap bubbles with a strange divinatory power help him to make amends. A film from the catalogues of the company founded by Arturo Ambrosio in Turin in 1904.

title: Soap Bubbles

job: Director

original_title: Le bolle di sapone

title: Air Bubbles

country: US


title: The Jester's Joke

overview: A cheeky female jester uses the smoke of her cigarette to make things appear and disappear. After showing her talents by playing with a chair or a dog, she lets clowns appear; one female, and two male. The male clowns fight each other over the girl who gets changed over and over again by the jester.

title: The Jester's Joke

title: The Jester's Joke

overview: Een brutale vrouwelijke nar gebruikt de rook van haar sigaret om dingen te laten verschijnen en verdwijnen. Nadat ze haar talenten heeft getoond door met een stoel of een hond te spelen, laat ze clowns verschijnen; één vrouwtje en twee mannetjes. De mannelijke clowns bevechten elkaar om het meisje dat steeds opnieuw door de nar wordt verkleed.

original_title: The Jester's Joke

title: Jesters Jokes

title: The Jester

title: Narrengrappen

country: NL

title: Narren-grappen.

title: The Merry Jester

title: Narren-Grappen


title: Mazeppa

overview: Mazepa, the Ukrainian governor is in love with his goddaughter Maria. He quickly wins her heart. But her old father treats the wooer harshly… Maria runs away. The furious father won’t submit. This intrigue makes the most of the ingredients of historical drama. Maria is confronted to the arbitrary; the young woman is in a dilemma between her love and her family. The tragic outcome is equal to her destiny.

title: Mazeppa

title: Мазепа

overview: Гетьман Мазепа просит руки Марии, дочери Кочубея, и получает отказ. Мария, ослушавшись воли отца, убегает с Мазепой. Кочубей посылает царю Петру донос на Мазепу, однако царь не верит навету и выдаёт Мазепе и донос, и доставившего его посланца. Кочубея хватают и сажают в темницу. Мать Марии просит дочь спасти отца от смерти, но Кочубея всё-таки казнят.

character: Kochubey

character: Mazeppa

character: Maria

character: Maria's mother

job: Book

original_title: Мазепа


title: The Mill

overview: Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna when he is away. When the miller finds out, he takes revenge.

title: The Mill

title: Le Moulin maudit

overview: La jolie Johanna préfère au jeune Wilhem, qui l’adore, le riche meunier Pieter et lui accorde sa main. Le couple vient s’installer au moulin de Pieter. Une année s’écoule. Wilhem n’a pas oublié celle qu’il aimait. Tandis que le mari roule, dans un de ces attelages à chiens, particuliers au pays, vers le marché voisin, l’amoureux profite de son absence pour venir courtiser la jolie meunière.

title: Die verfluchte Mühle

overview: Koloriertes Melodram von Alfred Machin, in dem ein Müller den Liebhaber seiner Frau einer spektakulären Bestrafung zuführt.

original_title: Le Moulin maudit

title: The Cursed Windmill

title: El molino maldito

country: ES

title: Het sprookje van den vervloekten molen

production_countries: BE FR


title: Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

overview: Scene represents section of the interior of a Chinese Opium Den.

title: Robetta and Doretto, No. 1

original_title: Robetta and Doretto, No. 1


title: Animals – The Movie

overview: The film is divided into fifteen chapters. Each chapter has a topic of its own and develops a unique visual style.  All parts are connected by a certain theme: the conjunctive concept of the film is the idea of universal transformation and movement, which is represented in the animals. The artists follow the surrealist credo that everything is linked with everything else in a hidden way. The only way to uncover these links is art. With its irresistible synthetic dynamics, the film reveals these secret connections.

title: Animals – The Movie

title: Animals – The Movie

overview: Der Film ist in fünfzehn Kapitel unterteilt. Jedes Kapitel stellt einen eigenen Themenschwerpunkt dar und entwickelt einen eigenen visuellen Stil. Alle Teile sind durch ein spezielles Thema verbunden: das verbindende Konzept des Films ist die Idee von universeller Transformation und Bewegung, die von den Tieren repräsentiert wird. Die Künstler verfolgen das surrealistische Credo, dass alles mit allem in einer verborgenen Weise verbunden ist. Der einzige Weg, diese Verbindungen offenzulegen, ist die Kunst. Mit seiner unwiderstehlichen künstlichen Dynamik macht der Film diese versteckten Verbindungen sichtbar.

original_title: Animals – The Movie

title: Minilogue: Animals - The Movie


title: New York, Whitehall Street

overview: Pedestrians, carts and trams traffic, on Whitehall Street in New York.

title: New York, Whitehall Street

title: New York, Whitehall Street

overview: New York, Whitehall Street : circulation de piétons, charrettes et tramways sur la rue.

job: Producer

original_title: New York, Whitehall Street

title: New York : White Hall-Street


title: Voitures automobiles

overview: Motor cars of different models, drivers, passengers and observers, all filmed from the starting line of the Paris-Meulan race.

title: Voitures automobiles

title: Voitures automobiles

overview: Paris, porte Maillot : départ de voitures automobiles de différents modèles pour l’excursion Paris-Meulan.

original_title: Voitures automobiles

title: Départ des voitures automobiles à Paris


title: Ballet Libella

overview: A woman wearing dragonfly wings performs a romantic dreamlike dance.

title: Ballet Libella

title: Ballet Libella

original_title: Ballet Libella


title: Douche après le bain

overview: Four young people throwing buckets of water at each other.

title: Douche après le bain

title: Douche après le bain

overview: Quatre jeunes gens jouent à se lancer des seaux d’eau.  La Ciotat, terrasse de la maison Lumière du Clos des Plages : le garçon en maillot de bain rayé est probablement Édouard Lumière.

character: Himself

original_title: Douche après le bain


title: The Kremos: Perilous Jumps

overview: A group of highly skilled acrobats perform.

title: The Kremos: Perilous Jumps

title: Les krémos : Sauts perilleux

title: Les krémos : Sauts perilleux

character: themselves

job: Executive Producer

original_title: Les krémos : Sauts perilleux

title: II. Double saut périlleux


title: Panorama of Calcutta

name: Panorama of Calcutta, India, From the River Ganges (1899) - filmed in Varanasi

overview: One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

title: Panorama of Calcutta

original_title: Panorama of Calcutta

title: Panorama of Calcutta, India

title: Local Scenes Calcutta

country: IN

production_countries: GB IN


title: Cattle Market in Derry

name: Cattle Market in Derry (1902) | Britain on Film

overview: Bustling scenes show Edwardian Derry-Londonderry before industrialisation took hold.

title: Cattle Market in Derry

original_title: Cattle Market in Derry


title: A Day in the Hayfields

overview: Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

title: A Day in the Hayfields

original_title: A Day in the Hayfields


title: The Robber Brothers

overview: Based on the poem by Pushkin. A thief and his gang are at their camp next to the Volga River. He tells them of how his father died in a river, and how his brother and he were thrown out of the house as children by their step-mother…

title: The Robber Brothers

character: Older brother

character: Younger brother

character: Landlord

character: Landlord's daughter

character: Prisoner

job: Writer

original_title: Братья Разбойники

title: Bratya Razboiniki

country: RU


title: Flying the Foam and Some Fancy Diving

name: Flying the Foam and Some Fancy Diving (1906) | Britain on Film

overview: Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

title: Flying the Foam and Some Fancy Diving

original_title: Flying the Foam and Some Fancy Diving


title: Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham

overview: A film from the UK based Mitchell & Kenyon.

title: Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham

original_title: Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham


title: An Exciting Hunt

name: 1906  - Eine aufregende Jagd AKA An Exciting Hunt

overview: A young woman and her maid go for a stroll in the park. The maid goes away, and the girl, siting alone in her folding bank, starts feeling the effects of the heat. After a look around to make sure that she is alone, she strips naked, and has a refreshing bath. While she is at it, a middle-aged couple approaches and decides to rob the girl's clothes. The woman strips her own, poor peasant's clothes, and dons on quickly the girl's dress; they leave in a hurry. The girl is distressed when she finds that she has only her undershirt to cover herself. A policeman wearing a white casket appears before the girl can dress, and she runs away, hunted by the policeman. Nearby, a man in a white suit and Panama hat is having a picnic with his family, greets a passing friend, and offers him some refreshment. Before they can toast, they're trample on by the fugitive girl, and the policeman close by. They all stand up and join the chase. A bearded man in a dark suit is out for a stroll in the park, ...

title: An Exciting Hunt

title: Eine Aufregende Jagd

original_title: Eine Aufregende Jagd

title: An Exciting Hunt


title: The Yawner

The Yawner (1907) Segundo de Chomón

key: cChavhKHDXk

overview: 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 proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keeper, passers-by, and a small group of soldiers.

title: The Yawner

original_title: Le Bailleur

title: What a Yawn Did


title: Preparation for the Rendezvous

overview: A Saturn film directed by Johann Schwarzer.

title: Preparation for the Rendezvous

title: Vorbereitung auf das Rendezvous

original_title: Vorbereitung auf das Rendezvous


title: St. Kilda, Its People and Birds

name: St. Kilda, Its People and Birds (1908) Williamson Kinematograph

overview: Scenes of islanders and seabirds on the remote island of St. Kilda.

title: St. Kilda, Its People and Birds

original_title: St. Kilda, Its People and Birds


title: Horendi

overview: A seven-day initiation ceremony is documented in which two women undergo ritual healing following a diagnosis of spirit possession, presented without narration, intertitles, or explanatory commentary.

title: Horendi

title: Horendi

overview: A Niamey, pendant sept jours se déroule le Horendi, au cours duquel sont recrutés les « chevaux des génies » (danseurs de possession), dans la cour de la concession du prêtre Zima Sambo.

job: Editor

job: Sound

original_title: Horendi

production_countries: FR NE


title: Tau Seru

overview: In the vastness of the Himalayas, a young nomad’s curiosity lies beyond the horizon.

title: Tau Seru

character: Boy

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Tau Seru


title: Eyewash

overview: A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

title: Eyewash

original_title: Eyewash


title: The Son of Tarzan

overview: Tarzan's son Jack is kidnapped from England by his old enemy Paulovich. Jack escapes into the African jungle where he meets Meriem, a European girl held captive. Freeing her, he falls in love but she's sought by Paulovich. Then Tarzan arrives with Jane to save the day!

title: The Son of Tarzan

title: The Son of Tarzan

title: The Son of Tarzan

title: The Son of Tarzan

overview: Tarzans Sohn Jack wird von seinem alten Feind Paulovich aus England entführt. Jack flieht in den afrikanischen Dschungel, wo er Meriem, ein gefangenes europäisches Mädchen, kennenlernt. Er befreit sie und verliebt sich in sie, doch Paulovich ist hinter ihr her. Da tauchen Tarzan und Jane auf, um sie zu retten!

character: Lady Greystoke / Jane

character: Jack

character: Meriem

character: Korak, Son of Tarzan grown up

character: Lord Greystoke / Tarzan

character: Meriem as a young woman

character: Ivan Paulovich

character: Sheik Amor Ben Khatour

character: Arab Slave Trader

character: Malbihn

job: Novel

original_title: The Son of Tarzan

title: Jungle Trail of the Son of Tarzan

title: To paidi tou Tarzan

country: GR

title: Daughter of Tarzan


title: The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West

name: The Curse of Quon Gwon (Mandarin Film Company US 1916) (a/p/d)

type: Teaser

overview: The Curse of Quon Gwon is the oldest known Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American silent features made by a woman. Only two reels of the film survive, and no intertitles are known to exist, making it difficult to parse out the exact plot. An article in the July 17, 1917 issue of The Moving Picture World states that the film "deals with the curse of a Chinese god that follows his people because of the influence of western civilization." The film also touches on themes of Chinese assimilation into American society. Formally premiering in 1917, no distributor was willing to purchase a Chinese-American film without racial stereotypes. Considered a devastating financial failure, the film was only screened two more times until its rediscovery in 2004.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

title: 关武帝

character: The Bride (uncredited)

character: The Unkind Woman (uncredited)

character: The Groom (uncredited)

character: Elderly Woman (uncredited)

title: The Curse of Quon Gwon

title: The Curse of Kua Koon


title: Ten Minutes Older

overview: In this ten-minute documentary experiment, director Herz Frank films a group of children watching a puppet show, keeping the camera fixed on their faces in a single continuous shot. The performance itself remains unseen, while the children’s shifting expressions—fear, laughter, curiosity, and suspense—suggest the story unfolding before them as ten minutes of their lives quietly pass.

title: Ten Minutes Older

title: Dek minutojn pli aĝa

overview: Per unu fragmento, sen ajna muntado, la reĝisoro fiksis sur la filmbendo malgrandan laŭ tempo kaj grandegan laŭ enhavo parton da animaj travivaĵoj de infano. La tuta nia atento estas koncentrita sur la vizaĝo de knabeto, observanta nevideblan por ni spektaklon en pupa teatro. Kiom da emocioj en liaj okuloj! Komence indiferenco, poste scivolemo, io serioze tuŝis lin, kunsentado, gajo, poste angoro, timo, teruro, kaj, fine, ĝoja faciliĝo la bono venkis La knabeto travivis tiom da emocioj sur ekrano, ke antaŭ okuloj de spektantoj li fariĝis nova personeco.

title: 十分钟年华老去

overview:
　　昏暗的电影院，一群天真无邪的儿童。导演用短短十分钟的特写长镜头，记录下了这群孩子们无比真实生动的表情。镜头以一个小男孩的面部特写切入，记录下他在一分钟里从平静冷漠到后来的恐惧愤怒。戏剧化的背影音乐是小男孩心理变化的最好诠释，再无需语言。镜头继续推进给后排的小女孩，她也同样被屏幕上的情节所吸引。孩子们毫无做作地流露着他们的丰富情感，时而紧张焦虑，时而喜悦欢乐。
 　　24年之后，这个电影的灵感创意深深触动了德国导演维姆·文德斯，在2002年与诸多国际知名导演共同拍摄出了《十分钟年华老去大提琴篇》与《十分钟年华老去小号篇》，向本片致敬。

title: Старше на десять минут

overview: 10-минутное путешествие эмоций, с которыми сталкиваются детские лица. Страх, любопытство; улыбка. Все сидят в темном театре. То, что они видят, мы не видим; мы можем только догадываться по их лицам.

title: Vecāks par 10 minūtēm

title: Vecāks par 10 minūtēm

overview: Een 10 minuten durende reis vol emoties waarmee kinderen geconfronteerd worden. Angst, nieuwsgierigheid; een glimlach. Ze zitten allemaal in een donker theater. Wat zij zien, zien wij niet; we kunnen alleen maar raden aan de hand van hun gezichten.

title: 十分鐘年華老去

overview:
昏暗的電影院，一羣天真無邪的兒童。導演用短短十分鐘的特寫長鏡頭，記錄下了這羣孩子們無比真實生動的表情。鏡頭以一個小男孩的面部特寫切入，記錄下他在一分鐘裏從平靜冷漠到後來的恐懼憤怒。戲劇化的背影音樂是小男孩心理變化的最好詮釋，再無需語言。鏡頭繼續推進給後排的小女孩，她也同樣被屏幕上的情節所吸引。孩子們毫無做作地流露著他們的豐富情感，時而緊張焦慮，時而喜悦歡樂。
 24 年之後，這個電影的靈感創意深深觸動了德國導演維姆·文德斯，在 2002 年與諸多國際知名導演共同拍攝出了《十分鐘年華老去大提琴篇》與《十分鐘年華老去小號篇》，向本片致敬。

title: Dix minutes de vie

overview: Un éblouissant chef d’œuvre uniquement composé de visages d’enfants assistant à un spectacle de marionnettes.

original_title: Vecāks par 10 minūtēm

title: Par desmit minutem vecaks

country: LV

title: Старше на 10 минут


title: Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

overview: In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.

title: Motion Picture (La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière à Lyon)

overview: Na câmara escura, 50 tiras de filme não expostas foram colocadas em uma superfície, sobre a qual foi projetada uma moldura de A Saída dos Operários da Fábrica Lumière para criar um novo tipo de filme…

title: Wyjście robotników z fabryki

overview: Robotnicy wychodzą z pracy – z fabryki w Lyonie we Francji.

job: Film Processor

country: FR

title: Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory

title: Exiting the Factory

title: Wyjście robotników z fabryki Lumière w Lyonie

country: PL

title: Wyjście robotnic z fabryki

production_countries: AT FR


title: Catharsis

overview: Short horror film from the directors of Amer.

title: Catharsis

title: Catharsis

original_title: Catharsis


title: Antiphon

overview: Antiphon is constituted by the same 4 basic elements of cinema, light and darkness, sound and silence, as is my film Arnulf Rainer but it has the opposite form. Negative becomes positive, positive becomes negative, silence becomes sound, sound becomes silence. - Peter Kubelka

title: Antiphon

original_title: Antiphon


title: Leo es pardo

overview: A beautiful girl has an intense trip during which she transforms.

title: Leo es pardo

title: Leo es pardo

job: Music

job: Cinematography

original_title: Leo es pardo


title: The Strange Portrait of the Lady in Yellow

overview: A woman takes a shower when she suddenly hears something. What is causing the sound and what is it that we see?

job: Sound Mixer

job: Visual Effects

original_title: L'étrange portrait de la dame en jaune


title: 9214

overview: Suzuki's camera documents a passing freight train from below, transforming the massive machine into an abstract animation of graphic forms and streaming light.

title: 9214


title: Mac 'n' Cheese: Supermarket

overview: Mac 'n Cheese try to realize their dream vacation by working in a local supermarket. Things go awry when new opportunities arise to make a buck. This short was shown theatrically before World War Z in the Netherlands.

title: Mac 'n' Cheese: Supermarket

title: Mac 'n' Cheese: Supermarket

overview: Mac 'n Cheese probeert hun droomvakantie te verwezenlijken door in een plaatselijke supermarkt te werken. Het gaat mis als er nieuwe kansen ontstaan om geld te verdienen. Deze korte film werd vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Nederland in de bioscoop vertoond.

original_title: Mac 'n' Cheese: Supermarket


title: The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall

name: Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall (1898)

overview: The film documents the launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall on the 21st of June, 1898—an event that was witnessed by 30,000 onlookers, 37 of whom lost their lives when the jetty upon which they were standing became washed away by the resultant swell.

title: The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall

original_title: The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall

title: Launch of HMS Albion

title: Launch of the Albion

title: Launch of H.M.S. Albion at Blackwall


title: Breathing

overview: Breer’s animation explores the theme and variation of the drawn line: a line in constant movement and transformation. With a very sketchy style, he demonstrates how a simple, abstract image can fill and satisfy the imagination of the film viewer. - MoMA

title: Breathing

original_title: Breathing


title: Kick Me

overview: An Oscar Nominated short film about the adventures of a red pair of legs.  Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

title: Kick Me

title: Пни меня

overview: Номинированный на «Оскар» короткометражный фильм о паре красных ног.

original_title: Kick Me


title: Minotaur and Little Nerkin

overview: What could possibly tempt the tastebuds of an anthropomorphized bull and his tiny duck-like friend? A severed hand! Dee-lish! But be careful - we've heard that baked hand causes heartburn!

title: Minotaur and Little Nerkin

original_title: Minotaur and Little Nerkin

title: Bait

title: Minotaur and Little Nerkin in Bait


title: Owzat

overview: It's Ghosts vs. Skeletons one night in a churchyard cricket match. At the outset, it appears that the Ghosts' pitcher will best all of the Skeleton's batters. That is until one dandy steps up to bat and practically lays waste to the entire churchyard.

title: Owzat

title: Owzat

job: Modeling

job: Sound Designer

original_title: Owzat

title: Spöken vs. skelett

country: SE


title: Pop

overview: A bored youth, a bored fish, a can of pop - the results are explosive!

title: Pop

job: Animation

job: Set Dresser

original_title: Pop


title: Still

overview: "This collapse of separate times into one image creates another push/pull with the experience of depth.  The superimpositions seem to lie on top of the image, yet they move into depth, creating what Gehr describes as a 'teasing play with planes.'  But the play with space and position here involves more than tension between layers. The variations on light and shadow on the two levels cause the double-exposures to pop in and out of depth. A shadow on the first level can give the superimposition a sudden burst of solidity. Gehr calls our attention to the multiplicity of depth cues that operate in a film in addition to perspective recession.  The cue of overlap creates much of the amusement of the film, as the vehicles on one level plow through the phantoms on the other. Gehr was particularly fascinated by the way depth cues provided by color (with warm colors coming forward) interact with the logic of space..." – Tom Gunning

title: Still

title: 静止

title: 靜止

job: Director

original_title: Still


title: Ursus

overview: A charcoal on paper animation about a motorcycling circus bear who decides to leave the daily routine and takes off to the forest where his true happiness seems to dwell.

title: Ursus

title: Ursus

job: Original Music Composer

job: Sound mixer

job: Photoscience Manager

job: Compositors

job: Creative Producer

job: Producer

original_title: Ursus


name: The Smallest Car in the Largest City in the World (1913)

overview: The Crown Prince Olav of Norway rides through the streets of London in a baby Cadillac. Later, three "royal testers" get in trouble with a burly policeman.


title: Ensemble for Somnambulists

overview: Ensemble for Somnambulists is an unfinished experimental silent film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society.

title: Ensemble for Somnambulists

title: Ensemble for Somnambulists

overview: Trabajo coreográfico inacabado y no publicado de Maya Deren, rodado en 1951 mientras trabajaba para la Toronto Film Society. Más tarde se recuperó y publicó como extra en el DVD del documental "In the Mirror of Maya Deren" (Martina Kudlacek, 2004).

title: 梦游者的共眠

character: Ensemble Dancer 1

character: Ensemble Dancer 2

character: Ensemble Dancer 3

character: Male Dancer

job: Writer

original_title: Ensemble for Somnambulists


title: The Death of an Insect

name: The Death of an Insect - Erään hyönteisen tuho

overview: In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die.

title: The Death of an Insect

job: Editor

original_title: Erään hyönteisen tuho

title: Erään hyönteisen tuho

country: FI

title: En insekts död


title: Constellations

overview: Constellations, a recent grouping of 16mm colour silent blow-ups by Super 8 artist Helga Fanderl, returns us to the natural world, whose beauty has been observed and rendered with a profound curiosity, a patient gaze and an extraordinary ability to capture visual patterns and textures. Whether following at close range the semi-circular motion of a handsome, pacing leopard, its spots evoking rhythmic patterns through Fanderl's intuitive shooting process, or closely studying a tray of glassware on a ship as the sea reflects and refracts through the crystalline shapes, the artist fully gives herself over to the present moment and allows us to bask in it. This iteration contains the following films (in order):  Blätter fliegen (2001)  Gasometer I (2010)  New Hope I (1992)  Aquarium (2009)  Geburtstagsfeier (2004)  Feuerturm (2009)  Leopard (2012)  Laub (2010)  Rost (2010)  Container (2011)  Gläser (2011)  Gelbe Blätter (2011)  Große Wasser (2012)

title: Constellations

original_title: Konstellationen

title: Konstellationen


title: Manhattan Medley

overview: A camera conception of New York, the city of inconceivable contrasts.

title: Manhattan Medley

title: Manhattan Medley

title: Manhattan Medley

overview: Een cameraconceptie van New York, de stad van onvoorstelbare contrasten.

original_title: Manhattan Medley


title: The Young Girl and the Clouds

overview: The story of Cinderella is modernised. Cinderella dreams of clouds and ends up fleeing by plane with her Prince Charming. The image is animated simultaneously at various speeds (decor, moving elements, characters) in connection with the sound tape played by Georges Schwizgebel on the piano. It is an intelligent variation on a well-known story with which the viewer can identify

title: The Young Girl and the Clouds

job: Music

original_title: La jeune fille et les nuages

production_countries: FR CH


title: Villa Antropoff

overview: A condom found on an African beach is an impulse for a black man to set off on a dangerous sea journey to Europe, in search of a better life. Meanwhile, Villa Antropoff hosts a typical international wedding party which, with every drink and every drug fix, is becoming increasingly pretentious.  An ironic story about dreams and losing dreams. Inspired by a real event, when both directors found themselves at a strange wedding celebration in the villa of former USSR leader Yuri Andropov near Pärnu in Estonia.

title: Villa Antropoff

character: (voice)

original_title: Villa Antropoff

production_countries: EE LV


title: Rosas Danst Rosas

overview: Thierry De Mey filmed Rosas danst Rosas in the former technical school of architect Henry Van de Velde in Leuven. The film version is much shorter than the show itself. In his film Thierry De Mey opts for a heavily ‘inter-cut’ version in which, apart from the cast of four dancers from 1995 and 1996, he also has all the other performers from the long history of the show dance along. He makes maximum use of the geometrical and spatial qualities of the Van de Veldes building. Incidentally, the building was thoroughly renovated straight after the film was made, making it one of the last testimonials to the original architecture. The film was shown on all of the major European television channels and also had a cinema career in the ‘art house circuit’.

title: Rosas Danst Rosas

character: Herself

original_title: Rosas Danst Rosas


title: Frozen Hearts

overview: In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful lover, the son of a humble pool shark (Stan) right under the very nose of her father.  When the man proposes marriage to her the father is happy to let her go, seeing as he has nine other children to worry about.  As the couple celebrate their love for one another they are approached by a military officer who threatens to take the woman away to use as a court dancer.

title: Frozen Hearts

character: Olaf - A peasant

character: General Sappovitch

character: Madame XXX

character: Sonia, the peasant girl

character: Count Alexis Pifflevitch

character: Soldier

character: The general's second

original_title: Frozen Hearts


title: The Whole Truth

overview: A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who shows up very infrequently.  For the defence (James Finlayson), he never did anything to be proud of - and was proud of it.  He sits there smirking and sipping a glass of water before being momentarily distracted.  He goes to take another sip of his drink but instead picks up a different glass containing something very different.

title: The Whole Truth

character: The husband

character: Defense lawyer

character: Florist

character: The wife

character: Clerk

character: Chemist

character: Jewish tailor

original_title: The Whole Truth


title: Cheatin'

name: Bill Plympton Film Library - "Cheatin'" (2013) Trailer (HD)

overview: In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.

title: Cheatin'

title: Cheatin'

overview: יצירת אנימציה אחוזת תזזית נוספת, ממכחולו המופרע של הגאון ביל פלימפטון (מוטציה חייזרית). ג'ייק ואלה מאוהבים נואשות עד שמגיעה אישה אחרת ומשבשת הכל. אלה תפנה לעזרתו של קוסם מפוקפק ולמכונת ה-"נשמה" שלו, על מנת שתוכל ללבוש את צורתן של אהבותיו האחרות, בניסיון נואש להחזיר לשניהם את האהבה הגדולה.

title: Cheatin'

overview: Séptimo largometraje animado de Bill Plympton, inconfundible e incombustible animador norteamericano de estética y personalidad inmediatamente reconocibles, que demuestra seguir en plenitud de facultadas tras casi cincuenta años de profesión. Esta vez se inspira en una obra del escritor James M. Cain para traernos la historia de Jake y Ella, que tras un accidente de coche terminan por convertirse en la pareja más unida que os podáis imaginar. Un universo de dos en perfecta armonía que comienza a desmoronarse cuando la aparición de una misteriosa mujer hace que surjan los celos y las inseguridades... (FILMAFFINITY)

title: Les amants électriques

overview: Jake et Ella se rencontrent dans un accident d'auto-tamponneuse et s'éprennent follement l'un de l'autre. Mais c'est sans compter le machiavélisme d'une garce qui sème le trouble chez les amoureux transis. Jusqu'où la jalousie la mènera-t-elle ? Entre envie de meurtres, tromperies en tout genre et un peu de magie, Jake et Ella sauront-ils surmonter leur rancœur ?

title: Cheatin'

overview: Em uma fatídica colisão de carros bate-bate, Jake e Ella se encontram e se tornam o casal mais amoroso da longa história do romance. Mas quando uma "outra" mulher intrigante coloca uma ponta de ciúme em seu namoro perfeito, a insegurança e o ódio determinam um destino prematuro. Com apenas a ajuda de um mágico desgraçado e sua proibida "máquina de alma", Ella assume a forma dos numerosos amantes de Jake, lutando desesperadamente contra o mau funcionamento e o engano enquanto tentam recuperar seu destino...

title: 不忠

overview: 两次奥斯卡最佳动画短片奖入围者、美国动画家比尔·普林顿将在今年为我们带来他的第7部动画电影《CHEATIN'》（不忠，暂译），一部关于爱、自私、复仇与凶杀的成人动画。普林顿那变幻莫测的动画人物将如何与这样深刻的题材完美融合，就像他在以往影片中所完成的那样，是值得每个动画爱好者期待的。值得一提的是，这部影片在Kickstarter网站上获得了10万美元的捐款，大大超过其收集7.5万美元赞助捐款的目标，显示出粉丝们对普林顿电影的极大热情。

title: 不忠

overview: 兩次奧斯卡最佳動畫短片獎入圍者、美國動畫家比爾·普林頓將在今年為我們帶來他的第 7 部動畫電影《CHEATIN'》（不忠，暫譯），一部關於愛、自私、復仇與兇殺的成人動畫。普林頓那變幻莫測的動畫人物將如何與這樣深刻的題材完美融合，就像他在以往影片中所完成的那樣，是值得每個動畫愛好者期待的。值得一提的是，這部影片在 Kickstarter 網站上獲得了 10 萬美元的捐款，大大超過其收集 7.5 萬美元贊助捐款的目標，顯示出粉絲們對普林頓電影的極大熱情。

character: Ella

character: Jake / Carnival Barker

character: Assassin

character: Floozy / Vanna

character: El Merto / Police Chief

character: Additional voices

original_title: Cheatin'


title: Jerry the Troublesome Tyke

overview: Jerry the Tyke also known as Jerry the Troublesome Tyke is a cartoon dog created during the silent film era. Created by Cardiff-based animator Sid Griffiths, and shown throughout British cinemas as part of Pathé Pictorial's screen news-magazines, Jerry the Tyke was the first animated series to be made in Wales.

title: Jerry the Troublesome Tyke

original_title: Jerry the Troublesome Tyke

title: Jerry the Tyke

country: GB


title: Venice Showing Gondolas

overview: Shot of Venice from the Canal.

title: Venice Showing Gondolas

title: Venise, tramway sur le Grand Canal

overview: Vista del Canal Grande (Venecia), probablemente, del verano de 1896.

title: Venise, tramway sur le Grand Canal

overview: Venise : tramway et gondole se croisent sur le Grand Canal devant le ponte Rialto.

original_title: Venise, tramway sur le Grand Canal

title: Gondola Party


title: Sortie de la Quadrille et commencement de la course (Vue de trois quarts)

overview: Beginning of a race.


title: Procession of the Sacred Carpet

overview: Procession of the sacred carpet.

title: Procession of the Sacred Carpet

title: Procession du tapis sacré

overview: Le Caire : défilé d’une escorte transportant le tapis sacré, suivie d’une colonne de musiciens montés sur des dromadaires.

original_title: Procession du tapis sacré

production_countries: EG FR


title: Aquarium

overview: Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.

title: Aquarium

title: Aquarium

overview: Des poissons de différentes espèces et des grenouilles évoluent dans un aquarium.

original_title: Aquarium

title: L'Aquarium

title: Аквариум


title: Poursuite sur les toits

overview: Agents chase down rooftop criminals, and after a series of grotesque twists and turns, they finally get their hands on them.

title: Poursuite sur les toits

original_title: Poursuite sur les toits


title: Roi et reine de Roumanie et leur escorte

overview: Queen Elisabeth of Wied, in a carriage escorted by cavalry, followed by King Carol I and Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on horseback, greeted by the crowd.

character: Herself

character: Himself

job: Camera Operator

title: LL. MM. la Reine, en voiture, le Roi, à cheval, escortés de l'état-major royal et des attachés militaires étrangers, rentrant au palais après la revue du 10 mai

title: Le roi et la reine de Roumanie


title: Panorama Taken from a Tethered Balloon

overview: Street scene shot from a balloon.

title: Panorama Taken from a Tethered Balloon

title: Panorama pris d'un ballon captif

overview: Panorama da multidão em uma praça, em seguida, dos telhados das casas vizinhas capturados durante a subida de um balão.

original_title: Panorama pris d'un ballon captif


title: Victor Hugo et les principaux personnages des 'Misérables'

overview: A man puts on several different faces.


title: Départ en gondole de Leurs Majestés

overview: Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and boarding two gondolas.

title: Départ en gondole de Leurs Majestés

character: Self

original_title: Départ en gondole de Leurs Majestés


title: Défilé des vétérans en costumes anciens : II. Vue de près

overview: Soldiers parade to the sound of military marches during the inauguration ceremony of Victor Emanuel II's monument in Turin.


title: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

name: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (1897) - extract

overview: A series of actuality films showing the procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

title: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

title: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

title: Jubileu de Diamante da Rainha Vitória

overview: Em 1897, a Rainha Vitória celebrou o seu 60º ano como monarca. Um evento espetacular foi realizado em Londres com uma rota processional repleta de tropas de todos os cantos do Império e milhões de súditos da Rainha. Foi o evento mediático da década e os cineastas pioneiros lutaram pelas melhores posições. Um grande número de seus filmes sobreviveu e está preservado no Arquivo Nacional do BFI, incluindo esta sequência que foi restaurada com sua coloração original. Fique atento à própria Rainha Vitória, sentada sob uma sombrinha branca na última carruagem, puxada por nada menos que oito cavalos.

original_title: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

title: Viktória királyné hatvanéves évfordulója

country: HU


title: A Holiday Pageant at Home

overview: A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the play, and the children practice it. When they are ready, they enact first a prologue and then the play.

title: A Holiday Pageant at Home

title: A Holiday Pageant at Home

original_title: A Holiday Pageant at Home


title: The Six Sisters Dainef

overview: The Six Dainef Sisters come onto stage and perform several acrobatic tricks before taking a bow and leaving stage together.

title: The Six Sisters Dainef

title: Les Six Sœurs Dainef

original_title: Les Six Sœurs Dainef

title: Acrobatic Sisters Dainef

title: The Six Sisters Dainef

title: Les Six soeurs Dainef


title: Chicago-Michigan Football Game

overview: Footage of the 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan, showing uniformed players in action along with views of the spectators in the stadium and surrounding stands. A rare early motion-picture record of American college football. Although Thomas Edison has sometimes been mistakenly named as director, he was never credited as director on any films; the actual director of this short is unknown.

title: Chicago-Michigan Football Game

job: Cinematography

original_title: Chicago-Michigan Football Game


title: Personal

Personal (Wallace McCutcheon, 1904)

key: kWmisXItkKI

overview: A man who has placed a personal advertisement for a prospective wife goes to wait at the meeting place that he designated. Soon a woman comes in response to the advertisement. Before the two have a chance to converse, several more women arrive on the scene. Now completely flustered, the man flees, initiating a lengthy chase.

title: Personal

title: Personal

job: Director of Photography

original_title: Personal

title: Rendez-vous par annonce


title: Grandma Despina

name: Баба Деспина (1905) Baba Despina (Manaki Brothers)

overview: This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.

title: Grandma Despina

title: Баба Деспина

title: Γιαγιά Δέσποινα

original_title: Баба Деспина

title: Grandmother Despina

title: Baba Despina

country: MK

title: Γιαγιά Δέσποινα

title: The Weavers


title: Funeral of Hiram Cronk

Funeral of Hiram Cronk

key: eMlKtfBHiAQ

overview: View of funeral procession and military parade at funeral for Hiram Cronk, who at the time of his death was the oldest surviving veteran of the War of 1812.

title: Funeral of Hiram Cronk

original_title: Funeral of Hiram Cronk


title: Hartmanns begravelse

overview: The funeral of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmanns in Vor Frue Kirke.

title: Hartmanns begravelse

original_title: Hartmanns begravelse


title: The First Film of Palestine

overview: A short travelogue created by Murray Rosenberg, who served as Honorable Secretary of the English Zionist Federation. Filmed in the area of Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, it is the earliest surviving full-length film made there and one of the earliest Zionist films.

title: The First Film of Palestine

original_title: The First Film of Palestine


title: Kristian Zahrtmann

overview: Painter Kristian Zahrtmann working in his studio.

title: Kristian Zahrtmann

original_title: Kristian Zahrtmann


title: The Three Nordic Kings Meet in Malmo

overview: The three Nordic/Scandinavian Kings meet in Malmø, Sweden. King Gustav V of Sweden, King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway.

title: The Three Nordic Kings Meet in Malmo

original_title: De tre nordiske Kongers Møde i Malmø

title: Trekongermødet i Malmø 1914

country: DK

title: Möte för de tre nordiska kungarna i Malmö


title: Say It with Babies

overview: Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.

title: Say It with Babies

character: Casper Crum

character: Mrs. Crum

character: Hector - the Floorwalker

character: Hector's Wife

character: The Waif

character: Policeman

character: Child

character: Child (uncredited)

job: Assistant Director

original_title: Say It with Babies


title: A Bankrupt Honeymoon

overview: A Bankrupt Honeymoon is a 1926 American silent comedy film starring Harold Goodwin and featuring Oliver Hardy.

title: A Bankrupt Honeymoon

character: Harold Pembroke

character: Shirley Lee

character: The Taxi Driver

character: Shirley's Father

character: Harold's Lalwyer

character: The Butler

original_title: A Bankrupt Honeymoon