A Modern Marriage

A Modern Marriage 1907

4.20

Another boring evening at the Baron's home; he sits and reads a magazine, while his wife sits across the reading table, reading a newspaper. The housemaid enters, bringing a message from Franz, who convenes the Baron to an urgent meeting at the Club. Excusing himself, and thoroughly kissing his wife good-evening, the Baron leaves - to meet some lady of the night in the club's private room, with champagne and a sofa for two. At home, the Baroness gets bored, until she has an idea, soon put to practice. She sends a man a letter, signed Divine Lola, giving him rendez-vous at a discreet pension. The modern Eve is not taking her husband's infidelities sitting down. She lays in her undershirt on a bed inviting her lover in, in a long embrace.

1907

Exciting Reading

Exciting Reading 1910

4.20

A lady undresses with some assistance of her maid, and picks up an exiting book as soon as she is alone again.

1910

The Slave Market

The Slave Market 1907

4.00

In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The pasha claps hands, and a servant comes to his bid. The lord is going to smoke from his water-pipe while he buys some new slave girls. The servant calls the seller and his two henchmen, who bring forth four girls in patterned burnooses.

1907

In the Bath

In the Bath 1910

5.00

A woman undresses, takes a bath, gets a massage, and relaxes.

1910

The Abduction of the Slave Women

The Abduction of the Slave Women 1907

5.50

Four Arab men in white burnouses, two women in grey, and one female cook in striped burnous, are sitting in front of a cave in a forest path.

1907

A Funny Story at the Window

A Funny Story at the Window 1908

3.70

Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.

1908

The Sand Bath

The Sand Bath 1907

4.70

A middle-aged man bare chest and wearing trousers, clears a shallow trench in the sand while a young woman draped in a long, flimsy veil looks on. The man leaves, but stays in the nearby wood at a watching distance, glancing at the girl divesting of her robe, sitting in the trench as if to sunbathe. She shifts positions a couple of times, but then the man returns, and starts covering her with sand. Unhappy, the girl gets up, picks a flask of lotion from the trench, and leaves with the man.

1907

The Vain Parlor Maid

The Vain Parlor Maid 1908

4.90

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, thus revealing her own naked body, and she compares the various parts of her body with those of the statue. The master of the house enters the studio. When he sees his housemaid naked, he tells her to go into the next room, and then goes into that room himself.

1908

Bathing Forbidden

Bathing Forbidden 1906

5.30

Three young women are smiling and playing in a lake, their nude bodies reflecting in the water, when a forest watcher appears from the wood, and chases them away. They get out of the water, pick their clothes from tree branches, and move away before putting them on. The bearded man seems to be shy, but he is chasing after them through the wood, anyway.

1906

Diana Bathing

Diana Bathing 1907

3.50

A modern days Diana comes to the border of a wood, near a water creek with canes, undresses, and places each clothing item on a tree branch. The camera shows her every movement, but also her reflection and those of the woods on the clear, moving waters. When she is going to lift up her white undershirt - the film teasingly ends.

1907

Female Conscripts

Female Conscripts 1908

5.40

A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.

1908

Games of Youth

Games of Youth 1907

4.20

Compilation of two shorts also distributed independently: Cricket und Reifenspiel [Croquet and the Arc and Hook Game], and Springschnur und Amazonen [Jump Roping and the Amazons]. In a sunny day, on a lawn in the woods, three nude, young brunettes with little flower arrangements on their hair are playing a succession of three dexterity games: throwing and catching three arcs with the use of a thin long hook, jumping the rope (soon replaced by a long piece of light cloth), and using the arcs as hoops for a bit of croquet with appropriate mallets and balls.

1907

Living Marble

Living Marble 1910

5.50

Four gentlemen are talking in a beer-garden; during a short absence of one of them, who pretends to be an art lover, the others decide to make a prank on him. When he comes back, one them invites the "square" bourgeois to his home, pretexting to show him an art catalog. The men pay their drinks and leave, but the three friends convene later, and they have paid a young female model to be there, too.

1910