Mafi Duba Daga Robert W. Paul

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

A parade of Gordon Highlanders in dress uniform march through the centre of Aberdeen on their way to the Boer War. Small children run around in...

The festive start and disastrous aftermath of the launch of the H.M.S. Albion.

A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.

A barber cuts heads off Negro and white customers, who then dismember him.

An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of...

An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the...

An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real...

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman...

A man strolling in a city street is attacked by three assailants. A policeman comes to the rescue and the men struggle with each other.

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's...

A miser dies of shock when the ghost of a poor woman appears.

A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturist performing his act for the camera and producing...

A short documentary about industrial whaling. The surviving footage runs for approximately 12 minutes.

Japanese pose as coolies, blow up a train, are caught and shot.

Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.

The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded,...

On 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 surf pounds against a breakwater on which are visible several people standing. The wall looks to be about 20 feet above sea level and extend at...