Kick the Cock

The capitalist Morita dreamed of making a full-dress private SM film and asked a SM writer Goro for advice. A lovely university girl was introduced to Morita by the degraded film director Yoshimoto. Orie's family had a lot of debt and was desperately in need of cash. Morita selected his basement room as a shooting studio. This was not what Orie had agreed to and she tried to resist but she was tied up naked and confined with her counterpart university boy in the cage. Orie was forced to give up human pride and become an animal. Morita and others continued to watch through the video camera from a different room. And the bizarre SM film shooting started...

Bigfoot checks into Hotel Transylvania to get some sleep but keeps getting disturbed by a zealous witch maid.

Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy's ex-lover is Roxie, now wife to godfather Tony Falcone. In a huge mix-up/double-cross, Roxie plots with Jack to get rid of Falcone and Quincy, one an abusive husband, the other a demented role playing ex-lover, and run away with Jack. But the double crossings don't end there

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.

A young child is told that if he doesn't go to sleep that Santa won't leave any presents, but the boy can't resist a peak of the generous fat man. Little does he know what is waiting for him under the tree this year!

A small army outpost on an offshore island of the Aegean. Its mission – area surveillance and the collecting of information on the enemy.

A group of kids play in a stream.

A blind man begging for change tries to outsmart a cop.

Cops chase a pair of burglars on the rooftops of the city.

An illusionist makes a woman disappear in thin air.

Soldiers ambush a house.

Some men get into hijinks at a sidewalk cafe.

Gentlemen get into a misunderstanding over absinthe.

A machine churns out sausages on one side and spits out hats on the other.

George Mélies made a version of this a few years later, often titled Une Indigestion, but Guy-Blaché’s earlier film Chirurgie Fin de Siecle (1900) is more widely available. And it’s not one to watch the night before an operation. In this clinic, a sign pleads “On est prie de ne pas crier/Please do not cry”, and the doctors set about the patient with saws, cheerily hacking off limbs, and then slopping them into a bucket, all the while arguing ferociously with each other. They then reattach arms and legs from a bucket of “exchange pieces” (using glue) before re-animating their victim, I mean patient, with bellows. (from http://silentlondon.co.uk/2015/01/23/10-disgusting-moments-in-silent-cinema/)

Columbine resists Pierrette's courting in favour of Harlequin in this hand-coloured short by Alice Guy.

A turn-of-the-last-century hand-tinted short, which features two women, Miss Lally and Miss Julyett, dancing at a ball. By the legendary French filmmaker Alice Guy.

Lina Esbrard performs a serpentine dance.

A fighting couple gets interrupted by the landlady.

A woman shows off her trained dogs.