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- DirectorSiegmund LubinStarsEmily LowryUnauthorized shot-for-shot remake by the Lubin Manufacturing Company of Edwin S. Porter's 1903 film of the same name. Two bandits break into a telegraph station to board and rob a train before being shot down in a standalone final.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsFernande AlbanyJehanne d'AlcyUsing 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.
- DirectorVincent Lorant-HeilbronnStarsVincenzo DenizotEarly period piece showing a brief and Euro-centric view of Christopher Columbis' landing in the New World, his triumphant return to Spain with Native Americans and wildlife, and his eventual disgrace.
- DirectorFrank S. MottershawRussians ambush a Japaneses convoy but are defeated.
- DirectorGaston VelleA prestidigitator, one of the best, is about to perform a number of illusions and brings to his aid a pack of playing cards. He selects the King of Spades, endows him with life and seats him at the table with himself, and they proceed to play a game of cards. The King of Spades shows a disposition to be ugly and is immediately squelched. This is a remarkably good picture, interesting from start to finish.
- DirectorAlf CollinsStarsWilliam CarringtonAlfred CollinsBoys blame a PC for stealing apples and he is arrested.
- DirectorCharles RaymondA thrilling story of a party of rough Smugglers running a contraband cargo on their rocky coast. Scene 1.--Shows the face of the chief of the smuggler's gang. Scene 2.--An old fashioned village inn, in which are seated three old tars studying a chart of the coast and deciding where it would be best to attempt a "run." Scene 3.--A boat coming through the surf laden with kegs, which are lifted on the men's shoulders immediately the boat has grounded, and conveyed across the sands to a cave, where the horses and assistants are waiting to convey them across the country. Scene 4.--A look-out on the Coastguard station is seen sweeping the horizon with his telescope, and suddenly becomes aware that his old enemy the smuggler is actively engaged in trying to get the better of him. Scene 5.--Here the look-out is seen rushing to the Coastguard station to inform his superior officer what he has witnessed through his telescope. All the men are hastily summoned, and rush off to try and prevent the "run" being successful. Scene 6.--Shows the smugglers coming through a galley between two precipitous cliffs, picking their way through the rocks, and urging their horses as fast as possible, so as to get their valuable goods into security. Scene 7.--The Coastguardmen, being unable to get down to the beach quickly, have recourse to a long rope ladder, and are seen coming hand over hand down this ladder to the shore, where they form up and rush in pursuit of the gang. Scene 8.--Shows the smugglers working down amongst the rocks and trees, closely followed by the Coastguards. Scene 9.--Here the smugglers are seen hastily removing the kegs from the backs of the animals, and entering the old smuggling haunt. At this critical moment the Coastguards rush their foes and burst into the house in hot pursuit. Scene 10.--Shows a tremendous struggle between the smugglers and the Coastguards. The smugglers resist violently all attempts to capture, until compelled to throw up their hands and submit to being handcuffed at the muzzle of a revolver. Scene 11.--The final scene shows the smugglers being escorted to the lock-up, handcuffed two and two, and carefully guarded on either side by the Coastguards.
- DirectorLucien BullPioneering chronophotograph of a bullet piercing a soap bubble in slow motion.
- DirectorAlbert MullensWilly MullensStarsMuis HamelWilly Mullens
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsRachel GilletGeorges MélièsA family has a sick woman at home. Her girl goes out in the snow to beg.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThe king of France receives a marvelous fan. The fan opens to reveal plain lace. This lace becomes pictures of women which then come to life an move in unison as their clothing changes.
- DirectorWallace McCutcheonA 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.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterA brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.
- DirectorJames WilliamsonThe adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty street, and then walks into the path of a steamroller. Two cyclists approach his flattened body. Out come their air pumps, and soon our genial hero has set off again, nose in his book.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA cook has his hands full with three mischievous devils, who pop in and out of his kitchen.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsThrough a rapid succession of drawings, ingenious disguises and soft dissolves, the director portrays a quick-sketch artist who transforms to various characters according to the static outlines on his chalkboard.
- DirectorRobert W. PaulA 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?
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAs we are treated with a rare appearance from a true master of the miraculous Asian thaumaturgy, a fine display of multiplication commences, and a serene young geisha completes the enchantment. What does the Chinese conjurer have in mind?
- DirectorA.E. WeedA woman stands in front of a building, a chair to her left, dressed in black, full skirt, quarter sleeves, and a scooped bodice. Her hair is piled high. She bows slightly, and, with castanets, begins to dance. She twirls (showing petticoats and dark-stockinged legs). She dips, swirls, then shimmies and shakes her hips, working the castanets continuously. Half way through the dance she stops and, with her teeth, picks up the chair by the top of its back and swings it above her head, balancing it in her teeth as she resumes dancing. She reclines, the chair still above her, never touching it with her hands, until, after a Dervish's twirls, finishes, bows, and exits.
- DirectorGaston VelleA caterpillar climbs up a plant and is encased in a cocoon. It morphs into a butterfly, which then morphs into a dancer.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magician divides himself into two people. The doubles perform tricks before transforming back into one person.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsA magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsIn a public place in Constantinople at the corner of a bazaar, the executioner is seated upon a stone and is resting from his daily labors while eating a crust of bread. Suddenly there come running into the place a lot of Turkish men and women preceding some Turkish policemen, who drag along four prisoners in chains. The policemen shut up the four prisoners in the pillory. Their four heads stick up through the huge plank, which is provided with four openings. One of the policemen urges the executioner to decapitate the prisoners. He accordingly seizes a mighty sabre and cuts off by a single stroke the four heads, which roll upon the ground. After having placed the heads in a cask, he resumes eating his meal. Immediately the four heads pop out of the cask one at a time to see what the executioner is doing, and in due order each one seeks its body. The four executed prisoners thus reunited throw themselves upon the headsman and in spite of his resistance one of them picks up the sabre lying upon the ground and cuts his body into two pieces. The four prisoners take flight. The two legs and lower part of the body run frantically, while the bust upon the ground calls to them with gestures of despair. Finally, when the legs, in their flight, come close to the bust, it seizes them and thus the pieces of the executioner are united. Then he calls the policemen, who, followed by the crowd, enter into the pursuit of the escaping men.
- Collection of 21 American short silent films. The films were taken from April 18, 1904 to May 16, 1904 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and document various Westinghouse manufacturing plants.
- 19048mNot Rated5.2 (298)ShortDirectorEdwin S. PorterA French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper. In the ad, he invites any well-to-do young woman who is interested in marriage to meet him near Grant's Tomb. When he goes to the meeting place, he is quickly met by an increasingly large number of women. He soon becomes flustered and runs off. When he does so, the women decide to pursue him.