A couple of tramps, down on their luck and hungry, decide to fake an exhibition boxing match for a promoter. Meanwhile, Pug, a good-hearted but boisterous fellow, takes on a gang of mashers who make unwanted advances to his girlfriend. Impressed by his abilities, the mashers decide to pass Pug off as Cyclone Flynn, the champion, and enter him in the boxing match. But the real C...
A short film by Frank E. Kleinschmidt, who led an expedition to Alaska in 1913 to gather specimens for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. With music and intertitles. B&W.
The latest discovery from the Filipino archives, an ethnographic documentary from 1913, rewrites the history of cinema. It was created nine years before the Robert Flaherty film, Nanook of the North, which, thus, makes it the world’s first-ever, feature-length documentary film. In a series of five scenes, the film depicts various aspects of the lives of indigenous peoples. It p...
Reportaje de la corrida de toros de final de temporada de la plaza de toros de Valencia, celebrada el 17 de octubre de 1914, con seis toros del ganadero Sr. Contreras a cargo del diestro José Gómez Ortega, llamado Gallito III y Joselito. Restaurada por CulturArts IVAC en 1999. Más información: ivac.gva.es/restauraciones
Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice.
The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen. The man in the moon tells them that their messenger should give it to the first miserable person she sees. Two children, Fluff and her younger brother "Bud" (a child's attempt at "brother," which stuck), have just lost their fat...
A famous short film that plays with elements of the Futurist art movement: A love story is told completely from the perspective of the feet, shot entirely from the knees down. The new print from the Cineteca Italiana restores the film’s period color tinting.
