The best movies 1907 Pagina 5

The short story tells of a young man who, after being rejected by the girl of his dreams, hangs himself from the tallest tree in the local park. He...

Fun film from French master Georges Melies has a couple burglar's breaking into a man's home and having to hide when that man returns. Instead of a...

A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows...

After Lucinda do Carmo is abducted from a theatre, the police are on the case. This film is lost.

The story tells of a matador, the leading figure in the Spanish bull ring, whose lady love proves fickle.

This is a mesmerising little short that employs a peculiar bird’s eye view of a mischievous devil who dances around, performing strange tricks...

A professor sprays people with 'galvanic fluid', and unleashes pent-up energy. Displays an early use of over-cranking and under-cranking.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

In the midst of the Civil War, a wife saves the day by swapping places with her captured and soon-to-be-executed husband.

When a little girl goes missing in the woods, her parents are at a loss as to what to do. To their great relief, a boy with a sixth sense shows the...

A number from the original production of Victor Herbert's The Red Mill.

An impecunious chap is unable to pay his rent, whereupon he is ejected, but all his furniture is retained and he is allowed to remove only his...

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill...

Presentation of horses and cows.

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape....

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

Actuality film from 1907, documenting the public celebrations in Stockholm for King Oscar II and Queen Sofia’s 50th wedding anniversary. The...