Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Tom Green, Laura Bayley
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Short, Silent
Country: UK
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.
Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Bleuette Bernon, Georges Méliès, Jehanne d’Alcy
Genre: Drama, History, Short, Silent
Country: France
A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: Harold Smith
Genre: Drama, Short, Silent
Country: UK
A child borrows his grandmother’s magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what he is doing. The child looks next at grandma’s eye, then at a kitten.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton
Stars: J. Stuart Blackton
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: USA
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
Director: George Albert Smith
Stars: N/A
Genre: Comedy, Short, Silent
Country: UK
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?
Director: Georges Méliès
Stars: Georges Méliès
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy Short, Silent
Country: France
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair.
Director: Arthur Marvin
Stars: N/A
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Short, Silent
Country: USA
Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.