
01 Jan 2011

The Five Stages of Grief
Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.
01 Jan 2011
Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
01 Aug 1900
A man attempts to shave with a blunt razor.
18 May 1965
The teenage Tobe Hooper’s first film was a slapstick comedy. This farcical low-budget short is about three thieves who are wanted dead or alive. A bit Three Stooges, a bit Chaplin and a bit Keaton!
30 Dec 2000
A mockumentary about a man who survives exclusively on TV shopping, but always returning every product before the 15-day free trial period expires.
23 Apr 1923
Charlie is a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the back room.
16 Feb 1922
The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
09 Mar 1921
A lost silent short comedy.
18 Nov 1928
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
19 Dec 1927
A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
07 Jun 2012
Abraham Cadabra, an unconfident young man buys a magic book and top hat in the hope of using magic to impress the girl of his dreams, Penelope Predicament. However, when he meets her for a date, he discovers that his rival, Jock Strong has beaten him to it. Abraham tries to use magic to win Penelope over, but magic may not be the solution.
16 Feb 1912
When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.
02 Mar 1919
Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
02 Feb 1989
An alien falls down from the sky in front of a wolf cub. His big ear allows him to listen to everything that happens in the universe. Yet somehow he fails to hear forest creatures calling for help.
30 Dec 1917
A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
02 Nov 2012
A retiring man in rioting Athens faces ghosts and memories from the past to make choices about the present.
11 Jun 2003
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.
18 Feb 1929
Silent military propaganda film by Erkki Karu, later followed by the musical revue film Meidän poikamme merellä ("Our Boys at Sea", 1933) and Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa ("Our Boys in the Air – and We on Land", 1934), both of them also directed by Karu. The film comes with a orchestral accompaniment arranged by Raine Ampuja in 2005, based on the original score by Lauri Näre and Emil Kauppi, which in turn was based on traditional Finnish military tunes.
14 Dec 1908
And here is an early success as he puts the viewer in the mood of a little boy, playing with his toys, running them through the paces of his little circus.
02 Nov 1936
Cartoon rabbit Oswald puts on a live-action puppet show.
10 Sep 2002
In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week. One and two reels in length, these works showed the filmmaker inventing, borrowing, and perfecting techniques he later used to memorable effect in "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm." Including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Walthall, and Mae Marsh. Among the 22 titles included on this landmark release are such widely recognized masterworks as "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch," "The New York Hat," and "A Corner in Wheat."