Author Archive: Retro

In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair’s breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.

“Panoramic view taken from a tug, showing the Statue of Liberty and its environments in New York Harbor.”

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?