Silent

A dastardly woman carries out a con scheme in which she hypnotizes an unsuspecting gentleman, takes off her clothes, and steals his wallet.Read More »

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“One of the first film stars, Annabelle made her debut at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. She was a featured performer on Broadway when she was filmed by Dickson in 1894. Her Serpentine and Butterfly Dances were so popular that Dickson filmed her again for the American Mutoscope in 1896.” – Paul SpehrRead More »

Epic trek of the Boers of South Africa. Silent film. Dramatic feature of the Great Trek and Battle of Blood River

White version of the Great Trek of the Boer people across South Africa – actually, the invasion of Zulu land. This silent film shows the villainy and treachery of the Zulus and the heroism of the whites. But in its renegade Zulu character Sobuza (played by the actor Goba), who aids the whites, it may have created the first African film-star.Read More »

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Four gentlemen are talking in a beer-garden; during a short absence of one of them, who pretends to be an art lover, the others decide to make a prank on him. When he comes back, one them invites the “square” bourgeois to his home, pretexting to show him an art catalog. The men pay their drinks and leave, but the three friends convene later, and they have paid a young female model to be there, too. The three pals position the nude girl in a classic stance, standing on a pedestal covered with a white bed-shit. She has an headdress that hides her hair, and is painted white like marble. The men spend some time touching parts of her body, to achieve the best pose. Read More »

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A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited. They are taking and inscribing in a ledger book the women’s height, breast, thigh and ankle measurements. To do this, they all have to get topless, except one. They enter one by one, but they leave in formation, except one who strays away and remains in the room. After she is alone with one of the officers, he kisses her, and takes her to another room.Read More »

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Two women get undressed to take a bath in a lake. When a fisherman throws out his hook to catch some fish, he accidentally puts his hook in one of the women. A policeman appears to seemingly put the fisherman away.Read More »

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A woman undresses, takes a bath, and relaxes.Read More »

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What is the perfect body – and how do you get it? People were already grappling with these questions 100 years ago. Wilhelm Prager’s and Nicholas Kaufmann’s documentary “Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit” (Ways to Strength and Beauty), filmed in 1925 for the UFA cultural department, first criticises modern society, which weakens and deforms the human body through industrial work and office activities. According to the motto “A healthy mind lives in a healthy body”, the didactically prepared educational film aims in six chapters at a re-appropriation of a physical ideal state according to the model of antiquity and propagates above all physical training for this purpose.Read More »

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In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent’s door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole – on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film’s logo]. The pasha claps hands, and a servant comes to his bid. The lord is going to smoke from his water-pipe while he buys some new slave girls. The servant calls the seller and his two henchmen, who bring forth four girls in patterned burnooses. The first is totally undressed [facing the Arab, not the camera], and sent into the tent; the next girl gets topless, and also sent into the tent; the third is forced to undress by the henchmen, and also sent inside. The fourth, apparently a younger girl, is dismissed by the Arab after showing her small, firm breasts, and she goes back with the henchmen. Follows an argument over the price, and finally the slave master goes away, happy. The servant must help the pasha up, and the lord goes to his tent.Read More »