1907 Movies

The first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, running 90 minutes. Directed by Michel Carré, from his own three-act stage pantomime, The...

Actuality film from 1907, documenting the public celebrations in Stockholm for King Oscar II and Queen Sofia’s 50th wedding anniversary. The footage c...

The town-crier summons the inhabitants of the town and they read a manifesto which is posted on a wall announcing the fact that at 4 o'clock on that d...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

William Shakespeare, struggling to write the assassination scene for his play Julius Caesar, settles into an armchair and begins to daydream the scene...

A lady uses a series of newspaper spreads to create various objects including a man, a clock and a dog.

Vitagraph short from 1907

This film from George Melies is sadly one that's only available in fragments. The film starts off with a title card stating that a drunk man has just...

A grenadier had come to see his lover, a servant in the homes of wealthy bourgeois people. Hearing a noise, he is afraid of the masters and allows him...

A piano entices anyone who comes near.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

A rich man rewards a tramp for defending him from muggers with a large sum of money in the form of a single bank note. Nobody can cash the big bill th...

1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.

Actuality footage of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II during their August 1907 meeting at Swinemünde (today Świnoujście),showing the monarchs c...

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.

A static shot of the sea tide bashing against the rocks.

Various scenes of daily working life at a sugar plantation in Hawaii.

Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his unsuspecting...

Viggo Larsen’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale about the soldier who gets hold of a magic tinderbox capable of calling forth...