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:
01 January 1907
An early documentary by Tunisian film pioneer Albert Samama Chikly who lovingly documented Tunisian culture, and filmed over Tunis from a balloon in 1907.
03 January 1907
This is a compact telling of the Cinderella fairy tale and the film is elaborately staged.
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.
23 May 1907
A middle-aged woman in rural dress and a young woman in a smarter dress are picking up herbs in a forest.
11 September 1907
Many demonstrations of the art of Jiu Jitsu are given, and as evidence that this is not a passing fad intended only for the amusement of the public there is illustrated in very thrilling manner how several footpads follow two girls and then in a deserted section of the road make an attack, which is successfully foiled and the perpetrators taken into custody.
01 January 1907
Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons].
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).
01 May 1907
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial celebration on April 26, its opening day, and later on Georgia Day, June 10.
17 December 1907
The Tommy Burns vs James 'Gunner' Moir boxing match.
01 January 1907
Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path.
01 February 1907
Scenes of men and women parading horses.
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