Author Archive: Retro

This short 1915 Edison films stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassination by Booth.

Prof. Howe knows more about antiques than he does about love affairs and consequently he declares that Dick, his daughter’s sweetheart, is a nuisance. Howe purchases an ancient Egyptian mummy and Dick observes the delivery of the huge case. A daring scheme occurs to him. With Arvilla’s assistance he takes the place of the mummy and when Howe opens the case he hears a sepulchral voice exclaim: “Let your daughter marry whom she chooses. Rameses demands it.” Arvilla says she chooses Dick, and Howe, grasping his daughter by the hand, hastens to Dick’s house to satisfy the mummy. Dick has the time of his life in making a wild dash to his home before the arrival of the professor.

The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denunciated and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan 4 years later, he is accompanied by his European wife.

An old carpenter starts off for work, leaving at home a wife old and ill. At the shop a new foreman is put in charge, and a weeding of the old hands takes place, as the employer insists upon an infusion of young blood among his employees, hence the old man with others suffers the penalty of being old, discharged. At his age he finds it impossible to obtain employment, and having been active and independent all his life is too proud to seek charity. Later, his savings having been exhausted and his wife now seriously ill, starvation promises to be their lot. He goes out to make a last effort for work, and on his way to make a last effort for work, and on his way passes a residence before which stops an automobile. Two ladies alight, one carrying a dog, for which the couple show great solicitude and care. As he views [...]

A man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man. Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering since her mother died. But when they venture out in search of breakfast, Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling into a cave. There, he hits upon the design for a club: A rock on the end of a stick. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family’s starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland’s mountains.

A mild-mannered man’s problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.