Automobile Parade (1900)

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

Madame Ondine performs a serpentine dance surrounded by big cats.

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the skirt with her hands, lifting and twirling, sometimes exposing her bloomers and a dark garter on one leg. Her style combines ballet with the exuberant kicks and twirls of a burlesque dance hall. With churning waves behind her, the water seems to wash beneath her feet. The film of the dancer, "M'lle. Cathrina Bartho" (1899), is superimposed on that of the water, "Upper Rapids, from Bridge" (1896).

Possibly the first film to utilize the technique of focus pulling. A man kisses a beautiful and lively woman, then the image blurs and dissolves into a clear image of the man waking up to his nagging wife.

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Mephistopheles draws the sword across the throat of the lady and she suddenly disappears and Faust is seated in her place.

The entire story of Christmastide is here depicted. The scene opens in a large boudoir of an apparently wealthy man's home. His children, assisted by their governess, are about to retire. Before lying down they hang up their stockings on the edge of the bed. The picture changes and night appears. We see the housetops of the town and angels are flying about depositing packages in each of the chimneys. (Edison Catalog)

An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance away. Her husband catches the gent looking. What will the two men do now?

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)

A combination of the picture entitled "The Ballet of the Ghosts," and a surf scene; the resulting effect being that the ghostly figures rise up out of the surf and come to the shore, cast their draperies aside and dance a few steps of the ballet, after which they again take up their draperies, and having covered themselves, retreat into the waves.

A family sits down to enjoy a meal that ends up being fraught with complications.

"This funny individual will make you laugh until your sides ache. He is funny in all his actions, yet when he puts on his shoes you can imagine the noise he can make when he dances an ordinary clog. The shoes referred to are made of some elastic material which enables Little Tich to bow almost to the floor without bending his legs, the spring in the shoes carrying him down and up again. He places his hat on the floor and, leaning over on the toes of his wonderful shoes, dips his head into the hat and comes up without having to move from the spot or to bend his legs. He is a comical looking sight at best, being made up to suit the part, and he will make you laugh whether you want to or not."

"Nothing new, but an old thing done over again and done well. Some one has attempted to describe a kiss as "something made of nothing," but this is not one of that kind, but one of those old fashioned "home made" kind that sets the whole audience into merriment and motion, and has always proven a popular subject. It is very fine photographically and an exhibit is not complete without it." -Edison film catalog.

2005년 교황 요한 바오로 2세의 죽음으로 가톨릭 추기경들은 콘클라베를 위해 바티칸으로 모인다. 세번의 투표 끝에 보수적인 입장에서 가톨릭 신앙을 추구하는 강경파 라칭거가 교황 직위를 얻게 된다. 하지만 재임 기간 중 성직자들이 재단 소년들을 괴롭히고 바티칸의 기밀 유서가 유출되는 등 전무후무한 교회 스캔들에 휩싸인 라칭거는 자진해서 교황직을 내려놓고자 한다. 비슷한 시기, 스스로가 가진 마음의 짐 때문에 추기경직을 사퇴하려는 베르고글리오가 라칭거를 찾는다.

아내와 함께 휴가를 보내던 특수 부대원 ‘레이’(빈 디젤)는 정체불명의 적에게 납치되어 살해당한다. 혈액 속에 수많은 나노봇을 주입하는 최첨단 프로젝트 블러드샷을 통해 부활한 레이. 놀라운 치유력과 가공할 만한 파워의 슈퍼 히어로로 업그레이드된 레이는 아내를 죽인 놈을 찾아 무차별적인 복수의 질주를 시작한다. 하지만, 자신이 진짜라고 생각했던 것들이 거짓임을 깨닫게 되는데… 복수의 시작, 액션의 끝! 2020년 액션 블록버스터의 최종 진화를 확인하라!

A film in which limbless Nikolai Kobelkoff demonstrates a series of tasks, from aiming a pistol to performing gymnastics. Kobelkoff was born without arms and legs but persevered, becoming an international star in the early 20th century as a "Human Torso".

As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?

A series of fantastical wrestling matches.

The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?