Edna Flugrath

Sacked clerk inherits £3000 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.

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 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

South African Film

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 scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.

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.

A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.

The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.

A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.

A man steals a huge diamond and sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy for a Zulu prince.

A Rajah dies saving a captain's wife when the plan to poison her husband goes wrong.

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.