Oct 15, 1901
1 min
Full-HD

The Big Swallow (1901)

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.

Category

Comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Williamson Kinematograph Company

Sam Dalton

Recommended For You

Drama
1900
Movie

Grandma's Reading Glass

Grandma's Reading Glass

6.4
1900

A child borrows his grandmother's magnifying glass to look at a newspaper ad for Bovril, at a watch, and then at a bird. The child shows grandma what he is doing. The child looks next at grandma's eye, then at a kitten.

Comedy
1899
Movie

The Kiss in the Tunnel

The Kiss in the Tunnel

5.8
1899

Produced and directed by George Albert Smith, the film shows a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel. The Kiss in the Tunnel is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing.

Drama
1901
Movie

History of a Crime

History of a Crime

5.9
1901

A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.

Comedy
1899
Movie

Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence

Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence

4.7
1899

Two women in long skirts, wearing hats, and carrying umbrellas, gossip beside a fence. Two men on the other side of the fence reach through from underneath and nail the women's skirts to the boards. Off the men run leaving the women to discover their fate. What will they do?

Documentary
1900
Movie

Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

6.2
1900

The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train.

Genre : Documentary

Action
1903
Movie

Life of an American Fireman

Life of an American Fireman

6.1
1903

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Comedy
1901
Movie

The Man with the Rubber Head

The Man with the Rubber Head

7.2
1901

A chemist carries out a bizarre experiment with his own head.

Documentary
2019
Movie

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead

6.6
2019

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

Genre : Documentary

Crime
1922
Movie

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

7.6
1922

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Drama
2022
Movie

Aftersun

Aftersun

7.7
2022

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Thriller
2007
Movie

Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider

5.6
2007

In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a go-getting reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery 'Ghost Rider'.

Genre : Thriller

Family
2016
Movie

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

6.9
2016

A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

Drama
1945
Movie

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

7.6
1945

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Drama
2022
Movie

The Quiet Girl

The Quiet Girl

7.5
2022

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Horror
1989
Movie

Puppet Master

Puppet Master

5.8
1989

Alex Whitaker and three other gifted psychics investigate rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer, Andre Toulon, in the form of five killer puppets uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem.

Science Fiction
2020
Movie

Come True

Come True

6
2020

Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.

Genre : Science Fiction

Western
1985
Movie

Pale Rider

Pale Rider

7.1
1985

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Genre : Western

Animation
1970
Movie

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

7.1
1970

A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grows up, he wants to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Mayor is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, the Winter Warlock lives between the Kringles and Sombertown.

Genre : Animation