Movies: Deutsche Mutoskop Und Biograph

A military parade through Berlin....

Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

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Filmed on a mountain railway from Caux to Rochers de Naye, Switzerland. Originally filmed in 68mm. The film was advertised as being available in 'standard Edison gauge' (35mm) at a total length of 620ft, which included both ascent and descent. The su...

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A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass....

What Belongs to Darkness (German: Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum) is a 1922 German silent drama film directed by Martin Hartwig and starring Karl Etlinger, Erra Bognar, and Fritz Kortner. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Colu...

The Flying Train depicts a ride on a suspended railway. The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures. For many years our curators believed our Mutoscope rolls were slightly shrunken 70mm film, but they were actually shot...

A dancer obtains the pardon of a conspirator....

Prison break. A murderer seeks refuge inside a barn....

At the age of 50, the surgeon Privy Councillor Professor Imhoff marries the young, beautiful but poor orphan Annie von Arenberg. On the wedding day, the professor's students put on a ceremonial procession. Annie falls in love with the student speaker...

Actuality scenes of Berlin circa 1910....

A splendid view of the color companies of the Gardes Regiments passing in review before Emperor William and his royal guests in front of the Zeughaus, Berlin, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Kingdom of Prussia....

A very amusing picture, showing a crowd of children and old folks disporting on a sand hill in one of the big public parks of Berlin. This picture is one of the "hits" of the Biograph....

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German Tonbild....

A woman's inattention results in her daughter's being run over and killed. Grief and guilt drive her mad....

Policemen singing a song....

Only the visual elements are known to survive from this 1908 recording of a duet from Franz von Suppe's early one-act operetta. As is usual with these recordings, the principal performers take center stage, face the camera directly, and let fly. Ther...