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An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart...

Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel...

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

An enthusiastic young couple is astounded with modern technology's giant leaps in the fascinating field of electricity.

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the...

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography,...

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that...

A group of people take roller skating too far.

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a...

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show...

There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip. Then there's this wizard in...

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?