Silent Movies

Three rock climbing ascents in Val Bregaglia, Italy by Karl Freimann and Philipp Wieland, who made the first ascent of Fiamma in 1936. The film...

The first known film directed by Guido Seeber and the oldest surviving German animated film. A white piece of chalk first draws a clock on a screen....

A Young Skater repeatedly fails to learn a new trick and begins to doubt his skills.

A short version of the film 'A la conquête des cimes' by René Moreau released for the domestic market in two Pathe Baby big reels. In...

Released on March 2nd, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls....

Released in 1901

Bete lives happily with her mother and her 50 cats, but a visit from a distant cousin is bound to reveal dark secrets...

"While The Salvation Army on the Job is listed in film databases without a full plot summary, it is closely associated with the 1919 short comedy A...

On September 11, 1929, the first Termez-Dushanbe train arrived at the newly built station in the Tajik capital. However, not only the train was the...

After being brutally murdered, the spirit of a traumatized mother embarks on a desperate quest to protect the child she left behind, only to discover...

A man wakes up in a forest with a mysterious mask stuck to his face and a note with a girl's face depicted.

Produced by Burton Holmes. Released on June 8th, 1919.

A monster and his emperor scorpion are confined to a room.

This hand-painted and elaborately step-printed work begins with a flourish of reds and yellows and purples in palpable fruit-like shapes interspersed...

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

A boy sits alone in his room, but he hears a noise. What is this noise, who is making it?

A silent journey through the mysterious, dark heart of the city center.

Dark, fast-paced symmetry in mixed weave of tones moving from oranges & yellows to blue-greens, then retreating (dissolves of zooming away) to both...

Young Artie Hamilton gets expelled from college, and his angered father--a wealthy railroad baron--throws him out of the house. Artie tells his...