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Nursery Favourites (1913) is an Edison Kinetophone short featuring performers miming to a pre-recorded nursery song, synchronized with a commercial phonograph record. It stands as an early example of Edison’s experiments with sound-film technology.
Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sister, Connie from a trying situation.
A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.
A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.
A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.
A man steals a huge diamond and sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy for a Zulu prince.
A dancer has an accident, becomes a cleaner, and dies after dancing for her child.
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
A Rajah dies saving a captain's wife when the plan to poison her husband goes wrong.