"An obese cooks' lover succeeds in escaping the police after an incident involving her masters." 17 March 1907 Comedy 8 mins
Very much a slapstick chase in the mode of the period, as Victorine's boyfriend escapes from the kitchen and is pursued on rooftop by his unsuspecting fellow officers.
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Georges Méliès Director
How Bridget's Lover Escaped Trailer
France 17 March 1907
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1907:
01 February 1907
A static shot of the sea tide bashing against the rocks.
01 January 1907
People and buildings in Falkenberg, Sweden in the early twentieth century.
01 April 1907
A short comical ghost story from the era of affordable nickelodeon movie theaters.
01 August 1907
Lost silent film, known to be the very first film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's tragedy of the same name, dealing with the last years of the Tsar's reign and the pretender Grigory (the false Dmitriy).
16 November 1907
The opening shows a colored nursemaid in the park with baby carriage, and seated on a bench receives the attention of several smart colored men who admire her greatly and endeavor to make her acquaintance.
01 February 1907
Various scenes of daily working life at a sugar plantation in Hawaii.
17 February 1907
The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures, including a chorus of naiads played by dancers from the Théâtre du Châtelet.
10 December 1907
Shot by Kichizo Chiba and featuring the Nobuchika Nakano kubuki troupe is one of the earliest Japanese film of the supernatural, and the first to specifically reference to the world of yurei ("ghosts").
01 January 1907
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion.
07 August 1907
An impecunious chap is unable to pay his rent, whereupon he is ejected, but all his furniture is retained and he is allowed to remove only his rolling bed.
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