Acting
Sacked clerk inherits ÂŁ3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.
Nursery Favourites (1913) is an Edison Kinetophone short featuring performers miming to a pre-recorded nursery song, synchronized with a commercial phonograph record. It stands as an early example of Edison’s experiments with sound-film technology.
A short comedy about the romance between Margaret and John. At a masked ball at the home of John's mother, Margaret is suspected of stealing jewellery. When the misunderstanding is cleared up, nothing more stands in the way of their romance.
South African Film
A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.
Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sister, Connie from a trying situation.
A man steals a huge diamond and sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy for a Zulu prince.
This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A dancer has an accident, becomes a cleaner, and dies after dancing for her child.
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
A Rajah dies saving a captain's wife when the plan to poison her husband goes wrong.
A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.
Bob and Dick both secretly love Dorothy but are too timid to propose. Bob rehearses his proposal to Dorothy, accidentally proposing to the maid, who accepts. Dick arrives, leading to a comical standoff. The maid reveals Bob's "proposal" to the chef, who, jealous, bursts in with a knife. Dorothy, finally arriving, clarifies the misunderstanding, and Bob proposes to her, leaving Dick as best man.
