Author Archive: Retro

A dancer on Broadway and her boyfriend take a trip back home only to find that their fathers are in the middle of an angry feud.

Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

A series of images from one of Spain’s oldest cities and now part of UNESCO’s World Heritage, the great Toledo. Segundo de Chomón’s short film explores the place’s old constructions, bridges, magnificent walls and other important monuments, most of them dating back from several centuries ago.

An elegant dandy – he of suit, vest, tie, and top hat – ignores his wife at dinner in favor of his newspaper, so she tearfully leaves him and returns home to mother. He is ecstatic, dancing a jig at the prospect of new-found freedom, but after a series of disasters as he washes up the dishes, shops and cooks, makes his bed and tries to get a night’s sleep, then looks unsuccessfully for his tie in the morning, he’s at his wit’s end and the place is in shambles. Will his better half return?

With a brand-new deck of playing cards in his hand, an elegantly-attired thaumaturge, by fire and the pure power of illusion, transforms a plain nine of spades card into a full-size Queen of Hearts.

Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.