Author Archive: Retro

Several chairs rest against a blank wall; three men, then a fourth and soon seven in all, divide into various pairs and wrestle for the camera. No more than two pairs wrestle at any one time. Some have robes and remove them to wrestle, shirtless. One keeps on a singlet. An older, beefy man seems to be the leader, offering instruction once, and out wrestling a younger, smaller man near the end of the reel. Everyone keeps their good humor.

Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.

New York beat cronies slumbering through Harry Smith, Burroughs and Ginsberg, University Columbia, Colombia, or the crazy is just what we need, not to “explain” tears in the fabric but to widen them with signs of solidarity that engage with the spiritual every day.

A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.

A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.

1900 French film adaptation of an excerpt from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet.