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The two last silents directed by Walter Forde: What Next? (1928) and The Last Night(1929)_are needing rediscovering
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The two last silents directed by Walter Forde: What Next? (1928) and The Last Night(1929)_are needing rediscovering
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- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeStarsGilbert DommSallie GardnerThe clip shows a jockey, Gilbert Domm, riding a horse, Sallie Gardner. The clip is not filmed; instead, it consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.
- DirectorEadweard MuybridgeEadweard Muybridge's motion photography film depicts a child bringing a bouquet of flowers to a topless woman who kisses his cheek.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceStarsAnnie HartleyAdolphe Le PrinceJoseph WhitleyIn the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
- DirectorLouis Aimé Augustin Le PrinceA shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.
- 18891m5.0 (486)ShortDirectorWilliam Friese-GreeneAlleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London.
- DirectorRobert W. PaulThe Derby is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's Kinetoscopes, featuring the end of the 29 May 1895 Epsom Derby viewed from a raised position close to the finishing line with the main stand in the distance. A stationary camera looks diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield showing the horses as they pass. Once the horses have passed the camera it is clear that the race has come to an end and there is a close finish between three horses. Once the race is over police officers run onto the field. The camera also displays various members of the audience moving around.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithStarsLaura BayleyTom GreenA man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithThe ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithStarsLaura BayleyGeorge Albert SmithA humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.
- DirectorJames WilliamsonStarsMr. JamesMr. LepardFlorence WilliamsonThe 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?
- DirectorWalter R. BoothVesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithAn 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 he 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 now do?
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithStarsHarold SmithA boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
- DirectorRobert W. PaulA satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train
- DirectorJames WilliamsonStarsSam DaltonA man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
- DirectorWalter R. BoothOn the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and when he is about to force her away she sits on her broom and rises to the moon. After disappearing she causes various hob-goblins to haunt the pair, the last of them stealing away the lady while the Knight's back is turned. The Knight, frantic with grief, is suddenly confronted by a Fairy, who presents him with a magical sword, and tells him that he can use it to regain the young woman.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithStarsLaura BayleyTom GreenA child-crossing sweeper dies in the snow.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithA girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
- DirectorRobert W. PaulStarsAlfred CollinsA stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.
- DirectorWalter R. BoothRobert W. PaulA man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk saying good-by to his companion. The horse and cart flatten him and continue on, out of the camera's stationary range. The cop runs after the cab, the woman dashes to the body. The cop brings back the driver; is the victim dead?
- DirectorJames WilliamsonThe adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, still reading, trips over a servant who's on her hands and knees cleaning the walk. He walks through jump-roping girls, runs into a mule, walks into the only other person on an empty street, and then walks into the path of a steamroller. Two cyclists approach his flattened body. Out come their air pumps, and soon our genial hero has set off again, nose in his book.
- DirectorWalter R. BoothA British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
- DirectorGeorge Albert SmithPioneering color guide to various Scottish tartans.
- DirectorJ.H. MartinAn escaped lunatic kills a woman, strangles a railway passenger, climbs a building, and is caught by a sailor.Martin also directed 'The Viion of Opium Smoker'
- DirectorArthur Gilbert
- StarsGodfrey TearleMary MaloneJames AnnandTwo teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- DirectorWalter R. BoothAn inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and the others work inside the mine, the coal is sent to the surface, where others at the mining site are ready to process the coal and to prepare it for shipping.
- DirectorFrank R. BensonStarsJames BerryAlfred BrydoneKathleen YorkeAlthough several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he does become King Richard III of England. But once he becomes king, he soon finds out that the many enemies he has made will make it very difficult for him to remain on the throne for long.
- DirectorLeedham BantockStarsSeymour HicksWilliam LuggLeedham BantockMiserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who tries to help him change his selfish ways and redeem his soul by showing him how much his greed has cost him and will continue to cost him if he doesn't atone. An early silent adaptation of the classic story, this version differs from others in that Marley also acts as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsKenneth WareReginald SheffieldLen BethelA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsJane GailDouglas MunroGerald AmesA typist exposes a group of businessmen as German spies plotting to blow up a bridge.
- DirectorBert HaldaneF. Martin ThorntonStarsBlanche ForsytheRoy TraversRobert PurdieA goldsmith's wife becomes the king's mistress to save her husband's life.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsElisabeth RisdonFred GrovesA.V. BrambleA 1915 British silent historical film about Florence Nightingale, and her innovations in nursing care during the Crimean War.
- DirectorCharles CalvertPercy NashStarsDennis EadieMary JerroldCyril RaymondThe Prime Minister's wife helps acquire shares in the Suez Canal.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsHenry AinleyJane GailGerald AmesAn English tourist poses as his royal double to foil revolutionary kidnappers
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsHenry AinleyJane GailGerald AmesWhen the king is killed by his rival, his English double takes his place and is shot.Lost
- DirectorLaurence TrimbleStarsFlorence TurnerHenry EdwardsMalcolm CherryA girl farmer weds a faithless sergeant who is killed by her suitor, and realises she loves the bailiff.
- DirectorBertram BrackenStarsTheda BaraBen DeeleyStuart HolmesA woman leaves her husband and children for mistaken reasons. After being thought killed in a train crash, she returns in disguise to be the children's governess.
- DirectorRex WilsonStarsJoyce TempletonJack ColemanMiss MarleyA squire's mischievous son becomes a boarder at Rugby.
- DirectorArthur BertheletStarsWilliam GilletteMarjorie KayErnest MaupainWhen a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.Rediscovered
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsFlorence TurnerHenry EdwardsRuth MackayIn the East London tenements lives one Alexandra Vickers, better known as "Viccy." She is rough-tongued, quick-tempered, and generous as far as her slender means allow. Her parents died when the girl was very young and left her to shift for herself. Later she takes up her abode with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith and their nephew, Albert Grummett. In the month of August the family decides to go to the hop fields and earn their living picking the sticky vegetable from which is made the national beverage, beer. About this time in America a wealthy contractor dies and leaves his immense fortune to Victoria Alexandra Vickers, the only daughter of his brother. A search is made for the girl and she is finally located in the hop fields. She is placed under the care of a Mrs. Carrington, to become polished. After "Viccy" leaves, Grummett, with five hundred pounds given him by the girl, sets himself up in business and is soon prosperous. Mrs. Carrington's son asks "Viccy" to marry him, as he needs money to pay his debts, and the girl accepts him. She later sees Grummett, however, and after discovering that Carrington wants only her money she goes back to Grummett, and East returns to East.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsIsobel ElsomOwen NaresCampbell GullanA radical shipbuilder revolts against his father in 1860, yet seems reactionary to his son in 1912.
- DirectorWilfred NoyStarsBasil GillViolet GrahamJ. Hastings BatsonA bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.
- DirectorRex WilsonStarsJoyce TempletonJack ColemanMiss MarleyA squire's mischievous son becomes a boarder at Rugby.
- DirectorFred PaulStarsJohn HareLaura CowieBen WebsterA squire jails a vicar for debt and fakes a marriage to his daughter.
- DirectorGeoffrey MalinsStarsBeauvoir De LisleDocumentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army's participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsCharles RockDouglas MunroEdward O'NeillA pompous father magically changes places with his schoolboy son.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsElisabeth RisdonHenry AinleyFred GrovesPete Quilliam, a fisherman on the Isle of Man, and his best friend, a lawyer named Philip Christian, are each in love with Kate Cregeen, an innkeeper's daughter. Pete is rejected by the girl's father and leaves for South Africa to seek his fortune. When Pete is reported dead, Kate is saddened yet relieved, for she really loves Philip. But Pete returns with enough wealth to overcome the father's objections. Obedient to her father, Kate weds Pete, hoping for the best.Lost?
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsGerald AmesManora ThewKenelm FossAn inspector tries to catch a gentleman thief.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsElisabeth RisdonCharles RockCyril RaymondA squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerG.B. SamuelsonStarsMabel LoveRuby MillerLionel BelcherParents assume a girl with amnesia is married to their soldier son.
- DirectorRex WilsonStarsHenry VictorHarding ThomasElizabeth CalkinAn organist dreams he kills the Lord who eloped with his adopted daughter.
- DirectorDane StantonRex WilsonBiography of Lord Kitchener (1850-1916).
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsElisabeth RisdonBertram BurleighEnid BellA man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsNorman PageAlma RevilleErnest ThesigerBio-pic of Britain's World War 1 Prime Minister.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsMaudie DunhamHebden FosterFred MorganA beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
- DirectorBruce GordonJ.L.V. LeighStarsBruce GordonHeather ThatcherHector AbbasThe inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.Is it Found?
- DirectorHorace Lisle LucoqueStarsAlbert LawrenceH.J. HamlinRaymond BrownAdventurer Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for King Solomon's gold mines.
- DirectorCharles RaymondStarsDavid DevantLady Doris StapletonCharles RaymondA magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.Raymond also directed Dick Turpin's serie.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsR. Henderson BlandLilian BraithwaiteJoyce DearsleyAn aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.
- DirectorHugh FordStarsArthur BourchierMary PalfreyMarjorie HumeThe 'dead' wife of a steel process inventor returns, as does her 'dead' husband, a war amnesiac.
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthStarsLeslie HensonAlma TaylorGerald AmesA soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.
- DirectorA.V. BrambleStarsMilton RosmerColette BrettelWarwick WardThe first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star-crossed lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsHenry EdwardsChrissie WhiteGerald AmesA millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthStarsAlma TaylorJames CarewGerald AmesA madman adopts the daughter of the dead woman who rejected him and forces her to marry a crook.
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsBetty BalfourHugh E. WrightFred GrovesA cockney flower-girl is in love with a policeman, but her father is a bookie and her sister loves a crook.
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthStarsAlma TaylorGerald AmesJames CarewFarming brothers give a home to an orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.
- DirectorGraham CuttsStarsHilda BayleyFlora le BretonWard McAllisterA drug king kills a criminal for giving cocaine to his teenage daughter.
- DirectorHarley KnolesStarsGladys CooperIvor NovelloC. Aubrey SmithA Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsJames KirkwoodAnna Q. NilssonGeoffrey KerrAn American heiress's fiancé saves a fisherman accused of stabbing his wife.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsAnn ForrestBunty FosseDavid PowellIn France a man frames his daughter for poisoning her rich husband.
- DirectorNat G. DeverichHarry K. FairallStarsElliott SparlingBarbara BedfordNoah BeeryBecause of his financial trouble, Don Almeda (Noah Beery) promises his daughter, Maria (Barbara Bedford), to Don Alvarez (Albert Prisco). But Maria does not love Don Alvarez, and, in fact, she falls in love with Terry O'Neil (Elliott Sparling), a stranger who has been wounded by robbers associated with Alvarez. O'Neil takes Alvarez's place at a masked ball. Alvarez, in turn, robs the old Padre (John Herdman) of some pearls and stabs him to deal with O'Neil's knife. He then accuses O'Neil of the murder and tries to shoot him, but wounds Maria instead, because she has thrown herself in front of him. Maria recovers, and, after proving that Alvarez is a thief and a killer, weds O'Neil.
- DirectorW.P. KellinoStarsDavid HawthorneGladys JenningsSimeon StuartA clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsCarlyle BlackwellEvelyn GreeleyDorothy FaneA captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonStarsDiana MannersGerald LawrenceCecil HumphreysAn Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorGeorge RidgwellStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisJoseph R. TozerAn unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.
- DirectorHerbert G. PontingStarsRobert Falcon ScottHerbert G. PontingHenry R. BowersIn 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
- DirectorCharles CalvertStarsGladys CooperIvor NovelloHugh MillerIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.Lost?
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsEdna BestRex DavisGeorge FoleyAn ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMatheson LangNellie Hutin BrittonMalvina LongfellowA cursed Jew lived through the Crusades, Mediaeval Italy, and dies in the Spanish Inquisition.
- DirectorBertram PhillipsStarsQueenie ThomasFrank StanmoreBasil RathboneAn uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsLillian Hall-DavisRex DavisSydney FairbrotherA fireman's fiancée, ejected by her father, becomes a maid and finds small families happier than large ones.
- DirectorHugh CroiseSeymour HicksAlfred HitchcockStarsSeymour HicksStanley LoganGertrude McCoyTwo couples, the Hawkeses and the Chessons, engage in an affair.remake. Original movie 1914
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsBetty BalfourHarry JonasFrank StanmoreA chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.
- DirectorGraham CuttsStarsBetty CompsonClive BrookJosephine EarleDavid Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMatheson LangNina VannaHugh BucklerPapists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthStarsAlma TaylorG.H. MulcasterJames CarewAn ex-nun weds an amnesia victim and is framed for killing her usurping uncle who posed as her father.
- DirectorCecil M. HepworthStarsAlma TaylorShayle GardnerEileen DennesA jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.remake. Original movie 1916
- DirectorW.P. KellinoStarsMary OdetteIan HunterGladys HamerAn Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMatheson LangGladys JenningsHenry VictorIn France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an extermination plan.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsLionel BarrymoreIvy DukeWerner KraussA Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
- DirectorGraham CuttsStarsIvor NovelloMae MarshIsabel JeansWhen bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter forever.
- DirectorFrank HurleyStarsEric Bransby WilliamsGrace SavieriJameson ThomasIn New Guinea a man escapes from natives and saves a girl from marrying her crooked partner.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsDorothy GishRandle AyrtonJuliette ComptonAn actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a servicemen's home.
- DirectorFrances H. FlahertyRobert J. FlahertyStarsTa'avaleFa'amgaseT'ugaitaFilmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.