Social & External
Broonzy
Roxanne
Dee
Kane
Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.
An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.
Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.
Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.
A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.
George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)
A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.
A woman shows off her trained dogs.
A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.
Hilarious moments from American-style football games.
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
Juraj Herz adapts Bohumil Hrabal's story about a man who works in a junk shop.
A boy recalls the story of how his family lost its cow. Based on a short story by Andrei Platonov.
A bunch of people run an obstacle course all around town.
A pregnant woman steals things from others on account of her cravings.
A lady uses her maid to lick her stamps, when an overtly excited man notices the maid, forcibly kisses her, and they wind up stuck to each other.
A runaway barrel wreaks havoc all over the city.
An alcoholic is inadvertently sewn into a mattress.
A gentleman visits a hair consultant for his baldness problems. The latter recommends a new lotion. The gentleman lets himself be convinced and a bellboy is immediately dispatched for the delivery which arrives at the concierge's lodge. The concierge, curious, and believing it to be good wine drinks a good part of it. He then tops up the bottle with water from the carafe. His wife goes to take his package to the gentleman. The concierge who does not feel well goes to bed quickly. When he wakes up he is perked up. But dismay, he is completely covered in hair. At first frightened, his wife and he come up with an idea. They get hired by an impresario in a music hall number, to a big success.
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