From Experiment Perilous (1944).
Fantastic news for Sherlock Holmes fans! A nitrate print of the 1916 film Sherlock Holmes, long presumed lost, was discovered at the Cinémathèque Française! Starring matinee idol William Gillette and based on the play he wrote, the movie portrayed Holmes as both a great genius and a distinctly romantic figure, shaping today's popular image of the great detective. A restoration is in progress and will premiere in Paris this upcoming January.
From George Albert Smith's "A Visit to the Seaside" (1908), the first film exhibited in Kinemacolor.
From Alice Guy's "Madame a des envies" (1907).
From Clive Brook's On Approval (1944).
Georges Méliès demonstrates his gallantry in "Les Cartes Vivantes" (1904).
Max Linder and Stacia Napierkowska in "Amour tenace" (1912).
From Georges Méliès's "Le Cake-Walk Infernal" (1903).
"Ladies, please remove your hats." A recreation of an early movie theater in Let's Go to the Movies (1949).
Alternate-reality Mary Pickford blows her husband a kiss before going out drinking in "The Dream" (1911). I just saw this film, along with a recently discovered Pickford short, on a big screen in Keene, New Hampshire. I also wrote up a screening report on the evening.
Another gif from Edward Turner's footage, the first color film ever captured. This home movie shows his children playing in his backyard, c.1902. If you look closely, you can see goldfish moving in the bowl on the table.
From Segundo de Chomón's charming Méliès ripoff, Le Voyage sur Jupiter (1909).
George Sanders reading Baudelaire in Albert Lewin's 1945 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. This is basically the intersection of everything I love.