An aria from Daniel Auber's comic opera on phonograph accompanies the images on screen.
Fra Diavolo
The two daughters of the fisherman find husbands.
Kämpfende Herzen
Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man,...
The Minister's Daughter
First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter
Andreas Hofer
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Lehmann's Honeymoon
Problematische Naturen
A nude couple pose in an art studio on a square rug, while the camera does a circular traveling around them; the woman has her right knee on the...
Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist
We see the drunkard's wife, whose home has been destroyed by alcohol. They have two children, a girl of 5 years and an infant at the mother's breast,...
Mütter, verzaget nicht
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
Mrs. Eva
Tragödie eines Streiks
A Tonbild (sound picture), recorded using the Messter Biophon system.
Der Graf von Luxemburg: Mädel klein, Mädel fein
Footage of spectators at the Friedenau velodrome in Berlin, dating from 1904. Several spectators, including a woman, are standing in front of a...
Auf der Radrennbahn in Friedenau
A love doctor successfully produces men on order for needy women, until his system for delivering them – through the mail as puppets in...
Ein neuer Erwerbszweig
a silent movie by Rober Wiene
Der wandernde Blumentopf
Only 3 minutes of this Oskar Messter short film survive.
Ein Matrosenabenteuer in Hamburg
Outlawed
Photage of people at Praterstern square in Vienna, Austria.
At the Praterstern in Vienna
Alexander Girardi sings the cabbage song
Alexander Girardi Sings the Fiakerlied
Foundational early entry in the uniquely German "Mountain Film" (Bergfilm) genre.
The Alpine Hunter
Sigmund Liban sings forty second from the prologue to PAGLIACCI in this early sound film.
Prolog aus Bajazzo