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Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his supe…

The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.

It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…

A charismatic saloon dancer arrives in the town of Sant'Anna with her dance troupe, only to find the community terrorized by the ruthless outlaw El Diablo who holds innocent hostages to control the land f…

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We must say, in respect for the truth, that he earned what critics calls "the estimated success": Onésime, …

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the 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. As the cymbal p…

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with sca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…

Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.

Two charming con artists pose as missionaries to swindle a small-town church congregation, but find themselves reluctantly becoming heroes when they must protect the locals from a ruthless gang of land-gr…

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer…

A pacifist army medic witnesses the brutal massacre of wounded soldiers and transforms into a deadly avenger, hunting down the ruthless captain responsible in a relentless quest for vengeance across the A…

Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He me…

Benitez pretends to be a toreador and his friends decide to pull a prank on him.

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, …

On the terrace of a villa, a violinist, two pianists and a singer are playing, until they are interrupted by a false note.

Composer Enrid Damor knows nothing of the past life of his new wife Eve Dinant : she lived as a debauchee with an adventurer, Fred Ryce. Fred Ryce meets Damor's daughter, Claire, and tries to marries her.…