Author Archive: Retro

Spoiled Ysabel marries a man of respectability but he later turns out to a criminal. Consequently, her mother breaks down, and on her deathbed, Ysabel wows to become an evangelist.

A fine picture of the celebrated “White Wings” or street-cleaning department of one district of Greater New York, showing over 350 men in line, and over 100 carts that are used to carry the refuse away to the dumping-wharf, marching through the streets of New York.

A rich and miserable motion picture studio owner and veteran of the Great War, has for years lived with sorrow and bitterness after losing his wife to influenza. He is helped by a poor family and learns there is more to life than his sorrow and his money, Frank Georges learns the Truth. A dramatic comedy produced in pantomime.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

The theft of an important document from the ambassador’s residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Undersea adventures in a submarine by a dreaming fisherman who encounters mystical underwater creatures at odds with him. A parody on Jules Verne’s novel.

Ponchinella the servant [called “Harlequin” in the English language version] rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have transformed her into a mechanical doll.

Two youths unharness a man’s donkey, letting the cart tip up, and the pumpkins inside roll down the street. The owner and his donkey then pursue the pumpkins through a variety of obstacles until they catch up with them.