The Execution (1903)
Жанр : криминал, драма
Время выполнения : 2М
Директор : Peter Elfelt
Краткое содержание
A child murderess is led to her execution.
The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
Когда юная девушка находит в лесу красивую мертвую лилию, она просит дедушку рассказать ей об этом. Лилия в великолепии стоит у ручья, ею восхищаются лесные существа. Но армия жуков, стремящаяся завоевать новые территории, хочет пересечь ручей - и лилия преграждает им путь. Наглая аллегория немецкого изнасилования Бельгии.
An illustrator draws some sketches at lightning speed. He first illustrates how he can turn a written word into a sketch of that word.
A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.
Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars.
Жизнь матери-одиночки делится пополам - ночью на шумных улицах Шанхая она работает проституткой чтобы заработать на жизнь, днем - заботится о своем сыне, которого любит больше всего на свете. С изменением социальных ролей меняется и телесная пластика героини - от раскованной обаяния куртизанки, богини ночного города, к сдержанной женственности и нежности богини-матери. Она пытается покончить с «древнейшей профессией», но ее сутенёр, которого местные воришки называют «Босс», не позволяет это сделать. Заветная мечта женщины - чтобы её сын получил хорошее образование и вырос порядочным человеком. Однако общество враждебно принимает ребёнка из «плохой» семьи.
The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
A man flies his plane "Fend l'Air" over Paris.
After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.
The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.
Paul Revere Forbes, an ancestor of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for its historical, rather than entertainment value.
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent.
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds out about her husband's affair. In order to make him jealous, she leads him to believe she has fallen for a jazz musician. However, instead of making him jealous it drives him into depression and he takes refuge in booze and even more affairs.
When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the test after years of alleged corruption.