Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth and was filmed at Paul's Animatograph Works. It was released in November 1901. As was common in cinema's early days, the filmmakers chose to adapt an already well-known story, in this case A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in the belief that the audience's familiarity with the story would result in the need for fewer intertitles. It was presented in 'Twelve Tableaux' or scenes.
Watch the official Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost 1901 trailer in HD below.
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism.
an anthology of three stories based in different eras - the first story is set in the 1940s where a freedom fighter ends up taking refuge at a woman's place after being chased by the cops.
During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.
Adel has a firm belief that his stepfather killed his father to marry his mother. He makes a strange deal with the unemployed Aziz, who wants to get rid of his wife to cash her life insurance policy.
A young couple, grieving the recent death of their daughter, move to the countryside where they are troubled by their experience of tragedy and the dark past of their new home.
It’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former business partner Jacob Marley.
In the center of the ring the trainer forms a pile of baskets many feet in height. Greyhounds leap in rapid succession, forming a graceful arch and landing on the ground as lightly as so many feathers.
An inventive use of slow-motion filming helps hammer home the gag as an unconvincing 'Indian chief' hopes to dissolve some trapped wind with a popular brand of indigestion powder.
"Taken from the Swiss side of the St. Bernard Pass, 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, giving a magnificent view of the far-famed Hospice, which has survived the buffetings of many a storm, and welcomed many a traveler who otherwise would have lost his life in the blinding snowstorms that so frequently occur.
