03 October 1907 Fantasy 11 mins
Viggo Larsen’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale about the soldier who gets hold of a magic tinderbox capable of calling forth three dogs with big eyes that can fulfill all his wishes. When the soldier has one of the dogs transport a sleeping princess to his room, he is arrested and sentenced to death. But his adventure, as we know, does not end here.
Watch the official The Tinderbox 1907 trailer in HD below.
Viggo Larsen as Soldaten
Oda Alstrup as Prinsessen
Robert Storm Petersen as Tjener
Petrine Sonne as Heksen
Waldemar Petersen as Anden tjener
Gustav Lund as Kongen
Viggo Larsen Director
Axel Graatkjær Director of Photography
Hans Christian Andersen Original Concept
Denmark 03 October 1907
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1907:
06 February 1907
Opening with sledge loads of holiday makers leaving the hotel shown afterwards careering along the roadway through beautiful winter landscape.
27 November 1907
An electrician uses electrodes attached to a metal cap to animate a cook's body.
01 January 1907
1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
01 January 1907
1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
31 August 1907
A tailor falls asleep and dreams that the suit he needs to make is magically completed.
12 September 1907
The Devil visits Earth on a magic elevator. He surprises two sewer workers, disguises himself, and spreads chaos: a quarrel with a coachman, an altercation with a police sergeant, the confusion for a barman and others.
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.
01 January 1907
1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
28 April 1907
This short burlesque film presents an anthropomorphic pig in elegant dress flirting and dancing with a woman, before being humiliated and compelled to perform for her amusement.
29 May 1907
No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original screenplay has also been lost.
09 January 1907
Behind-the-scenes footage showing Alice Guy directing an early sound film.
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