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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...
An Extraordinary Cab Accident
Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.
The Soldier's Courtship
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...
Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II
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 Magic Sword
Husband comes home late and wakes the wife. Based on a popular stage play.
Two AM; or, The Husband's Return
Mephistopholes causes an artist's model to disappear.
The Devil in the Studio
A magician performs tricks. First with a top hat, then with his audience.
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies
A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.
The Arrest of a Bookmaker
A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.
Fun on the Clothesline
A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.
The Miser's Doom
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...
Come Along, Do!
A Swiss tourist knocks the head off a negro waiter.
The Extraordinary Waiter
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
The King and Queen's Visit to Berlin
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...
Pocket Boxers
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...
The Countryman and the Cinematograph
Sirdar's Reception at Guildhall
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
Drama by Walter R. Booth. Survival status unknown.
Plucked From The Burning
Four men of different ranks play a game of tetherball on a ship's deck.
Tetherball, or Do-Do
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...
A Railway Collision