Author Archive: Retro

Industrial film depicting the Elgin Watch Factory in Elgin, Illinois, and showing each step in the making of an Elgin watch.

Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.

A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.

Workers in a pottery factory labor in unhealthy, unventilated and dangerous conditions, but the plant’s wealthy owner doesn’t see any need to change things. It’s not long before one of his workers falls ill to tuberculosis, and soon the owner learns the meaning of the old adage, “What goes around comes around”.

Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.