Author Archive: Retro

A recently released prisoner struggles to support his family.

One of W.K.L. Dickson’s laboratory workers horses around for the camera.

A battalion of the U.S. Army’s 77th Division penetrates deep into the Argonne Forest of France during the First World War. The battalion becomes surrounded and holds out for six long days, awaiting reinforcement and rescue.

An American tourist has a terrible ordeal on his European vacation.

Mildred loves her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, but her new stepmother wants her to be rid of his influence, because of his drinking.

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

A young lady, who “hates the law” rises from the tenements to society. Financial reverses lead her to commit a series of burglaries as “The Bird”. She becomes involved with the detective investigating the burglaries. After she confesses and pays for her crimes, they marry.

Two girls and their brother live at the little homestead left them by their late father. The brother, having disposed of a portion of the small estate, comes home with the money to show it to his sisters, telling them that they may now enjoy a few of the luxuries of life. As it would be after banking hours before he could get to the village, he places the money in the safe and returns to his office, some distance away. He has hardly departed when the maid, a slattern individual, who has seen him put the money in the safe, attempts to get it. Failing to work the combination, she calls up an erstwhile friend requesting him to come and help her. While these two work, the sisters are locked in the sitting-room, terrorized in a most unique way. The brother, however, arrives after a series of tantalizing delays and apprehends the criminals just [...]