Author Archive: Retro

A tumultuous time in French history affects the life of one particular man, an innocent bystander swept up in the confusion around him.

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.

Animated industrial short

A young couple live in the country several miles from town. Their only maid, dissatisfied with the lonely life, leaves the house without any other notice than a note, telling the mistress she is leaving and will put the back door key under the back door mat. The wife, left alone with her baby, receives a telephone call from her husband saying he will not be home until late and asking if she will be safe. The wife answers that she will be, and later, when she discovers the maid’s note, although fearful of being alone, determines not to alarm her husband. She locks the house securely, but afraid to go around the house to get the key, leaves it outside. A tramp peering through the window sees the wife alone and when she takes the baby upstairs to bed, attempts to get into the house. The wife, hearing the noise, is alarmed and, looking [...]

Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril. Nearing a river trestle under repair, she hurtles into the river; undaunted, she swims to the opposite bank and flags down the excursion train in the nick of time, causing the engineer to run his train onto a siding just a few moments before the runaway dashes by.

A married couple decide to “live separately together.”

Animated educational short