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En ny Hat til Madammen
Viggo Larsen, 1906
A young woman is out shopping and buys a new hat in the latest fashion. Unfortunately, the hat is so huge that it leaves a trail of destruction wherever she goes. A quite ordinary stroll suddenly becomes deeply problematic.
Tullemands Frieri
Ubekendt, 1910
Alois Nieswurz is eager to get out the door to propose to his beloved. But much to his chagrin, everything seems to be getting in the way! First, the ring disappears and then, goodness me, his underpants are sticking out the back of his trousers. Will the awkward suitor ever manage to get there and down on one knee? At the beginning of the 20th century, a cinema experience offered three or four short films – first a report, then a drama, and finally a farce before going home.
Manden med Kappen
Robert Dinesen, 1913
FRAGMENT | An apparition appears when the threat of foreclosure looms over the family estate. Solicitor Bang is a rich man with financial power over a dowager baroness and her estate. However, Bang also wants power over the baroness’ daughter Lucy, whose heart belongs to the family doctor Sperling.
Uden Nattegn
Christian Schrøder, 1912
Jens wants to take his girlfriend out, and when his request for the evening off is refused, he sneaks out anyway. Unfortunately, the sergeant finds out about Jens' plans and follows him.
Dobbeltgængeren
Holger Rasmussen, 1910
A burglar dresses up as a count in order to steal a valuable necklace from the count’s house.
Blind Alarm
When his mother-in-law announces her arrival, Fabian gets busy running away. He crawls up through the chimney, much to the surprise of the chimney sweeper, and then continues his hasty and destructive journey through the city. He ends up having a whole entourage of aggrieved people home with him in the living room, where a new letter from the mother-in-law is awaiting him.
Den sorte Domino
FRAGMENT | A young man finds himself at loggerheads with his friend after he has tried to kiss his wife and at the same time turns out to be a common thief. When they meet again several years later, the villain has become a member of the crime gang called The Black Domino. By a nefarious trick, the villain gains access to his old friends’ villa and pretends to reconcile with them, while his hooded, cloaked and masked cronies prepare to kidnap the man as soon as he steps out the door.
Kosakfyrsten
INCOMPLETE | Anna, the beautiful daughter of a general, and the young lieutenant Cernieff are in love. However, the general refuses to give his only daughter to a man without fortune. Heartbroken, Anna confides in the duchess, who agrees to deliver a letter to Cernieff.
En Opfinders Skæbne
August Blom, 1912
The creative yet debt-ridden inventor Fred must sell his beloved prototype of an aeroplane. Fred’s wife is ill and needs expensive medicine. The buyer is the usurer Frank, who doesn’t understand technology other than a status symbol.
Sherlock Holmes i Bondefangerklør
Jens Larsen has worked hard to become a wealthy man in America, and when he travels home to visit Denmark, the people he meets are extremely acommodating. A little too acommodating, as it turns out.
Dyrekøbt Ære
William Augustinus, 1911
Doctor Thaw cheats on his wife, Rose, with her friend, Nina. One evening, while he’s out enjoying his secret happiness, Rose is murdered by a burglar, and he finds her limp and cold body in their marital bed the next morning. Out of respect for Nina, he refuses to say where he was at the time of the murder and ends up being charged with the murder of his wife.
Bagtalelsens Gift
Valdemar Hansen, 1912
The artistic cyclist Gaumont, his girlfriend Baptista, and their partner Rosa arrive in town with their travelling circus. Rosa is secretly in love with Gaumont, and to her great delight, she gets the opportunity to travel alone with him when Baptista gets injured and is bedridden. The two of them grow closer in secret, but the clown Pierre, who has set his sights on Baptista, gossips about the lovebirds for his own gain, thus igniting a fatal thirst for revenge in the betrayed.