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poster
65
42
6.6
/1416/
62
/42/
64
/60/
3.5
/3949/

The '?' Motorist (1906)
A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.
poster
57
30
5.7
/830/
57
/30/
54
/44/
3.0
/1488/

The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
poster
52
28
5.2
/987/
52
/20/
49
/43/
2.8
/1455/

Rough Sea at Dover (1896)
The surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at least 100 feet into the water. A large wave rolls picturesquely along the wall toward the shore. Smaller waves follow. Then the scene changes to river water flowing. We see both shores: in the foreground a log and tree branch are visible; on the far shore, there appears to be a low wall with trees beyond it. The camera is stationary in both shots.
poster
58
26
5.8
/769/
55
/22/
58
/38/
3.1
/924/

A Chess Dispute (1903)
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.
poster
57
23
5.8
/577/
59
/21/
53
/26/
2.9
/1270/

The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)
An old proprietor is startled and haunted by the strange happenings inside his curiosity shop.
poster
59
20
6.1
/595/
54
/17/
57
/23/
3.2
/805/

An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's stationary range. The cop runs after the cab, the woman dashes to the body. The cop brings back the driver; is the victim dead?
poster
51
16
4.8
/623/
52
/11/
47
/26/
3.0
/611/

Come Along, Do! (1898)
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The film features an elderly man at an art gallery who takes a great interest in a nude statue to the irritation of his wife. The film has cinematographic significance as the first example of film continuity. It was, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "one of the first films to feature more than one shot." In the first shot, an elderly couple is outside an art exhibition having lunch and then follow other people inside through the door. The second shot shows what they do inside.
poster
49
13
4.8
/436/
46
/11/
50
/16/
2.8
/691/

The Derby (1896)
N/A
poster
61
12
6.4
/234/
53
/9/
60
/12/
3.4
/499/

Artistic Creation (1901)
An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body part after the other.
poster
55
10
6.0
/437/
45
/6/
54
/15/
3.2
/275/

The Vanishing Lady (1897)
Robert W. Paul production, "The Vanishing Lady", 1897. A magician sits a lady under a rug and makes her disapppear, before she reappearing in a field, alongside an ass, and several other women.
poster
54
10
6.0
/222/
41
/6/
53
/13/
3.2
/389/

Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (1899)
A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.
poster
50
9
5.2
/451/
42
/7/
46
/12/
3.0
/324/

Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)
A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms penniless and without provisions into his ill-furnished house where his wife and two children, ill-clad and ill-fed, cower. Is there any hope for him and for his family? If he does realize how low he's sunk, what help is there to lift him up? Will the family ever know the taste of cherries?
poster
52
8
5.6
/158/
42
/7/
46
/7/
3.2
/551/

Is Spiritualism a Fraud? – The Medium Exposed (1906)
Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.
poster
55
8
5.8
/185/
52
/9/
49
/11/
3.1
/318/

An Over-Incubated Baby (1901)
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the incubator. An alcohol lamp is lighted under the apparatus, but the professor evidently gets his machine too hot, for in a few seconds the top is opened and the baby taken out. To the great anger of its mother it has grown about two feet in height and has long hair and a full beard. (Edison Catalog)
poster
49
7
5.4
/204/
40
/5/
43
/10/
3.1
/343/

A Railway Collision (1900)
The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sight of a second train rushing out of the tunnel. Both trains are on the same track and traveling toward each other at a high rate of speed. They collide. Cars and engines are smashed into fragments and thrown down the steep incline. (Edison Catalog)
poster
?
3.2
/15/
40
/1/

Phantom Ride, Chamonix (1900)
A train snaking around Chamonix, Switzerland, with a steep Alpine slope inches away from the tracks.
poster
?
4.4
/33/
55
/2/
40
/1/

The Last Days of Pompeii (1900)
Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.
poster
?
5.5
/55/
63
/3/
63
/3/

Pocket Boxers (1903)
Two sports are seen drinking beer and arguing as to the qualities of certain prize fighters. They make a bet, and to prove it, each pulls his favorite pugilist from his pocket, and they set them on the table. A hot battle ensues, in which one of the midgets is knocked out. The sport whose favorite won the fight takes the money with a look of satisfaction, and replaces his man in his pocket. The loser looks very much disgusted as he picks up his man and puts him back in his pocket. Very mystifying.
poster
?
3.2
/25/
10
/1/

Trilby Burlesque (1896)
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
40
/1/

Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II (1895)
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing a large profile caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The loss of the rest of the film has bequeathed us 6 seconds that are of Mechem standing next to the completed portrait and sadly, that is all there is. An early film made by Birt Acres for R.W. Paul. (see release information for further detail).
poster
?
50
/1/

Race for the Grand National (1903)
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
3.6
/27/
30
/1/

Gordon Highlanders Leaving for the Boer War (1899)
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
3.3
/19/
30
/2/

Fun on the Clothesline (1897)
A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
10
/1/

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race 1901 (1901)
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Football Final (1901)
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
2.9
/17/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Arab Knife Grinder at Work (1897)
Short released in 1897.
poster
37
?
3.9
/145/
22
/4/
32
/8/
2.8
/327/

Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy (1895)
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
poster
?
4.9
/39/

The Devil in the Studio (1901)
Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.
poster
?
4.5
/40/
50
/1/
20
/1/

Clog Dancing Contest for the Championship of England (1898)
Clog dancing contest winner dances on dinner plate.
poster
?
4.5
/34/
40
/1/

Santa Claus and the Children (1898)
N/A
poster
?
4.4
/57/
50
/3/
45
/2/

The Delhi Durbar (1903)
N/A
poster
?
5.5
/25/
40
/1/
40
/1/

The Fatal Hand (1907)
There's a killer on the loose in Muswell Hill. Escaped from an asylum, he can be identified by the missing forefinger on his left hand.
poster
?
4.2
/28/
60
/1/
10
/1/

Sunderland (1896)
Poor pedestrian, horse drawn carts, wagons and bus travel across bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.
poster
?
3.6
/36/
20
/1/
40
/2/

The Miser's Doom (1899)
A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.
poster
?
3.2
/13/
30
/2/

The Derby 1900 (1900)
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
poster
?
3.5
/17/
30
/1/

The Robber and the Jew (1908)
Robbers wait by the roadside ready to spring upon a series of passing travellers, gleefully hiding their stolen plunder in a hollow tree. When a Jewish man comes along with a bag full of gold, the villains treat him worse than the others and tie him to the tree.
poster
?
3.0
/28/
30
/1/
30
/3/

Landing at Low Tide (1896)
Brighton. Landing of party from small boat with comic incidents.
poster
34
?
4.4
/132/
30
/2/
40
/4/

The Soldier's Courtship (1896)
Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.
poster
?
3.8
/27/
50
/1/
10
/1/

Surprising a Picket (1899)
Boers kill a dozing sentry, attack the camp and rob dead soldiers.
poster
?
4.4
/77/
35
/4/
45
/2/

Attack on a Piquet (1899)
No Overview
poster
53
?
6.0
/107/
37
/4/
60
/2/

Whaling Afloat and Ashore (1908)
A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.
poster
50
?
5.7
/143/
42
/4/
52
/6/

A Lively Quarter Day (1906)
A conjurer makes furniture return from the bailiff's.
poster
?
5.0
/87/
40
/4/
50
/2/

The Kiddies' Cakewalk (1903)
No Overview
poster
?
4.6
/76/
35
/4/
40
/1/

Coronation Durbar at Delhi (1903)
No Overview
poster
?
4.3
/94/
37
/4/
37
/3/

His Only Pair (1902)
Old woman sews patch on grandson’s trousers while friends jeer.
poster
61
?
6.2
/237/
53
/6/
64
/7/
3.4
/430/

The Magic Sword (1901)
On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and rises to the moon. After disappearing she causes various hob-goblins to haunt the pair, the last of them stealing away the lady while the Knight's back is turned. The Knight, frantic with grief, is suddenly confronted by a Fairy, who presents him with a magical sword, and tells him that he can use it to regain the young woman.
poster
?
5.3
/89/
41
/5/
50
/4/

The Deonzo Brothers (1901)
The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded, stand on opposite sides of the stage, and jump from one barrel into the other until they both land in the same barrel at the same time. They then jump backwards onto the stage over the two barrels. One table is then mounted upon another and the center barrel is placed on top. The brothers still blindfolded jump one each into a barrel and from them to the first to the second table and from the second table into the barrel on top of the second table. They then jump backwards onto the stage. This is pronounced by show people to be the most marvellous acrobatic feat that has ever been introduced. (Edison Catalog)
poster
54
?
6.0
/172/
50
/7/
53
/6/

Undressing Extraordinary (1901)
Here we present a picture that simply convulses an audience with laughter. The scene opens in the bedroom of a hotel. A traveler appears, evidently a "little worse for wear." After stretching and yawning, he proceeds to disrobe. He throws off his coat and vest, but to his surprise and anguish, he suddenly finds himself clothed in a continental uniform. He throws this off in anger, but immediately a policeman's costume flies on him. This is in turn thrown aside in great rage and he finds himself clothed in a soldier's uniform. At last, thinking himself successful, he makes for the bed and finds a skeleton complacently resting on his pillow. The bed suddenly disappears, leaving him seated on the floor, and great quantities of bed clothes rain down from the ceiling. The picture ends leaving the audience simply convulsed in laughter. (Edison Catalog)


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