Author Archive: Retro

A dangerous convict has escaped from prison and is skulking through the woods, pursued by prison officers. The officers separate and go in different directions in the hope of heading him off. This works well for the convict, who surprises one of the guards, and, overpowering him, makes him change clothes with him. About this time Edith is accompanying her sweetheart Jack to the railroad station in her auto and leaves in a huff, calling him a coward for not having entered into a street brawl with a drunken tramp, who insulted them on the way down. Jack has some time to wait before train time, and, upon looking after the departing auto, is surprised to see it held up by the disguised convict, who forces the girl to aid him in his escape. Two of the guards, arriving at the station, inform Jack of the true condition, and the three, knowing the railroad track [...]

An amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Clowns ride in on a wagon drawn by a skeletal horse. The clowns proceed to transform from blackface performers to white costumed clowns, and back again, as they perform zany antics.

A woman is working hard at her sewing machine while her daughter plays with a doll. The child, bored, looks out the window and tumbles to her death. A year later, her mother, driven mad, dies.

Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

Joe Rock plays the title character, a sailor named Chop Suey Louie. When he arrives in China, he sees a pretty lady being attacked and comes to her rescue. But in the process, her watch is stolen and her father announces he’ll pay ANYTHING to get the watch back…and Louie jumps into action. He takes on the evil gang of kinda Chinese looking guys and eventually is able to outsmart them. But, his boat is about to sail and Louie needs to think fast to get back on time.

It would be an impossibility even in three reels to give the complete history of this most wonderful man. In presenting this picture we have selected a few only of the best-known and most famous scenes in his life. Commencing the story with a summer evening at Malmaison we see in progress one of the most magnificent fetes of the kind that took place only in France, during the height of Bonaparte’s power, and at which are present Napoleon and Josephine. Following this is the well-known scene when Napoleon on his rounds discovers a sentry asleep behind a haystack, takes up the latter’s gun and continues his duties to the astonishment of the soldier when he awakes. We next come to the Battle of Austerlitz and the incident of the guard who was decorated by Napoleon for refusing to allow him to pass without the watchword. The battle itself is shown very vividly in all [...]