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:
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
A static shot of the sea tide bashing against the rocks.
17 August 1907
A poor artist living in a garret room uses his talent for painting to feed himself by any means necey
01 January 1907
1907, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith.
06 April 1907
Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
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 June 1907
This subject illustrates the pathetic attachment that exists between a dog and his blind master.
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].
31 August 1907
A tailor falls asleep and dreams that the suit he needs to make is magically completed.
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.
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