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After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passeng…

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

One of the greatest of black art pictures. The conjurer appears before the audience, with his head in its proper place. He then removes his head, and throwing it in the air, it appears on the table opposite another head, and both detached h…

Kansakunnan synty (engl. The Birth of a Nation) on D. W. Griffithin ohjaama, vuonna 1915 valmistunut yhdysvaltalainen mykkäelokuva. Sen aiheena on Yhdysvaltain sisällissota ja sitä seurannut Etelävaltioiden uudelleenrakennus ja toipuminen.

Tri Caligarin kabinetti (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) on vuonna 1920 ensi-iltansa saanut saksalainen mykkäelokuva. Robert Wiene ohjasi sen Carl Mayerin ja Hans Janowitzin käsikirjoituksen pohjalta. Elokuvaa pidetään sekä kauhufiktion että…

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the …

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece A Trip to the Moon (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts o…

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost. Copies of it online are actually the 1900 remake.

In a medieval castle, a dark magician thought to be Mephistopheles conjures up a series of bizarre creatures and events in order to torment a pair of interloping cavaliers.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Mies kohtaa menneisyytensä kokeen aikana, jossa yritetään löytää ratkaisu maailmansodan aiheuttaman postapokalyptisen maailman ongelmiin.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their fa…

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Antti Rahikainen on töissä teurastamossa. Eräänä päivänä hän murhaa varakkaan miehen tämän asunnossa. Pian alkavat Rahikaisen hermot kiristyä ja Rahikaisen perässä nuuskiva poliisi ei auta asiaa yhtään.

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of ima…