Genre: Musical

Direction Max Skladanowsky

Synopsis Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance

Direction Alice Guy

Cast Armand Dranem

Direction Alice Guy

Cast Félix Mayol

Direction Alice Guy

Cast Polin

Direction Alice Guy

Direction Alice Guy

Cast Armand Dranem

Synopsis Armand Ménard (alias Dranem, a reversal of his last name) performs a little number entitled "Five O'Clock Tea" (although it is in French and it isn't subtitled, unfortunately). If you ever wondered about the vaudeville origins of performers like Maurice...

Direction Alice Guy

Cast Félix Mayol

Synopsis Felix Mayol performs White Lilacs (Lilas Blanc, by Theodore Botrel) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy, the world's first female filmmaker. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording Felix Mayol, who was then filmed "lip...

Direction Alice Guy

Cast Félix Mayol

Synopsis Felix Mayol performs Indiscreet Questions "Questions indiscrètes", by A. Trebitsch & G. de Nola / G. Maquis) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy, the world's first female filmmaker. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording...

Direction Georges Mendel

Cast Jean Noté

Synopsis By 1907, sound experimenter Georges Mendel had devised a system to assure synchronization by mechanically interlocking phonograph and projector. Again, the film was shot to playback, but amplification of the acoustic recording remained a significant limitation. Here, M. Noté of...

Direction Segundo de Chomón

Cast Max Linder · Loie Fuller

Direction Allen Ramsey

Cast Edna Flugrath · Robert Lett · Shirley Mason · Robert Milasch

Direction Yakov Protazanov

Cast Yekaterina Geltser · Vassiliy Tikhomirov

Direction Dudley Murphy

Cast Adolph Bolm · Olin Howland · Ruth Page

Synopsis At the stroke of midnight, the two young lovers, Youth and Love, enter an ancient castle. At their heels is the spectre of Death, who stalks them from the shadows as they dance, playing an eerie tune on his violin....

Direction Mario Roncoroni

Cast Daniel Alberich · Pepita Alcácer · Juanita Amorós · José María Garrido

Direction Mikhail Fokine

Cast Anna Pavlova

Synopsis The last moments in the life of a swan.

Direction Philip Roscoe

Cast Al Jolson

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Thelma Biracree · Constance Finkel · Betty MacDonald · Robert Ross

Synopsis Early Colour Film made by Eastman Kodak itself. Martha Graham's dance "The Flute of Krishna" is performed in front of the camera by students from the Eastman School of Music.

Direction Arturo Carballo

Cast Ramper · José López Alonso · Juan Belmonte · María Caballé

Direction Joe Francis

Cast Josephine Baker · André Luguet · Hélène Hallier · Pépa Bonafé

Synopsis Gabrielle, an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and...

Direction Nikolai Khodataev

Synopsis Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Curzon, tries to sabotage development of the fledgling Soviet Union with a trade embargo. Defiant Soviets buy government bonds (obligazia) and a new industrial nation is born. Note: We found nothing in western history books to...