Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 18 mins Color
Starring: Sybil Jason, Marcia Ralston, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.
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Running Time: 22 mins Black & White
Starring: Ginger Rogers, Ruth Hamilton, Thelma White |
The adventures of a schoolgirl in a nightclub as related by her to her dormitory sisters.
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Running Time: 25 mins Black & White
Starring: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
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Starring: Billy Bletcher, Monte Collins, Phil Dunham
A train stationmaster tangles with two tramps who have robbed him.
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Running Time: 27 mins Black & White
Starring: Mercedes Quadros
Filmed in England. A little girl is distressed and feeling guilty about losing wings for her costume in a school play. After noticing an angel, she follows it to a dark building. Upstairs in the attic, bathed in heavenly light, is an artist's model, the Angel. The painter ascends a ladder until he is out of shot, implying a trip to heaven, and reappears to bring Amelia a pair of wings.
Running Time: 26 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John |
Roscoe and Buster are working at a vaudeville house. When the crew attacks the strongman for bullying his assistant, the man goes out on strike so the crew puts on a show. When the strongman starts shooting from the balcony, Buster rigs a swing, picks him up, and takes him to the stage where is again subdued.
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Running Time: 20 mins Color
Starring: Andy Clyde, Patsy O'Leary, Steve Pendleton
Running Time: 20 mins Color
Starring: Andy Clyde, Patsy O'Leary, Steve Pendleton
Clyde has selected Stedman as the chosen suitor for daughter O'Leary over her preferred lover Pendleton, but Stedman's true colors are exposed during a beach rowboat expedition with Clyde.
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Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: June Brewster, Carol Tevis, Grady Sutton
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns
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Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Andy Clyde, Patsy O'Leary, Yola d'Avril
Dir. Mack Sennet. College professor finds it "convenient" to hire an actress to assist him to teach his classis, to his own chagrin.
Running Time: 3 mins Color
Running Time: 3 mins Color
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: June Brewster, Carol Tevis, Grady Sutton
An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.
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Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Tom Kennedy, Will Stanton, Helen Starr
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Running Time: 2 mins Black & White
Starring: Émile Cohl
The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.
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Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: Andre Katelbach, Roman Polanski,
Dir. Roman Polanski.A small and frail barefoot slave, portrayed by Polanski, plays the flute and beats the drum to entertain his master who endlessly sits on his rocking chair in his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps wildly, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun and holds a urinal for him.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: June Brewster, Carol Tevis, Grady Sutton |
A day at the park starts out well when two couples enter a boat race, but things start going south when the boys lose their shirts and one of the girls loses her dress.
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Starring: Andy Clyde
When Mr. Martin and everyone else in Mosby Manor hears strange noises during the night, they fear that it might be the ghost of Martin's uncle, who died in the Civil War. But the next day, the local constable investigates, and he finds mice in the attic who are making the odd sounds by crawling across some musical instruments stored there. But their relief does not last long. As they are showing the house to some potential buyers, a new series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events begins.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Bob Hope
Tony LoBianco.
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The funniest truckin' you've ever seen!
Running Time: 96 mins Black & White
Running Time: 96 mins Black & White
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Dir. Mack Sennett.
Running Time: 20 mins Color
Starring: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety |
A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
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Starring: Monte Collins, Vernon Dent, Betty Boyd
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Benny Rubin, Gwen Lee, Lena Malena |
A nice young Jewish boy is mistaken for a notorious gangster.
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Starring: Beth Darlington, Eddie Lyons
A young man wants to elope with his pretty girlfriend, but her father--the local police chief--won't let them leave town.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Harry Sweet, Monte Collins, James Donlan
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Running Time: 30 mins Color
Starring: Steffi Duna, Don Alvarado, Paul Porcasi
Experimental color film, won 1935 Academy Award for Best Comedy Short Subject. Senor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local cafe in Mexico because of its reputation of good food and to audition the renowned dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the cafe owner that if the dancer truly is talented, he will offer a contract to perform in his theater. The cafe's female singer hears about this adn is determined that he won't leave the cafe without her. A fascinating little gem.
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles 'Chic' Sale
A carpenter who specializes in building outhouses becomes successful, but then things take a turn for the worse when his name becomes synonymous with "toilet".
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Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Warner Anderson, John Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman |
What goes in to the phrase, "Let's go to the movies"? An off-screen narrator takes us back to the earliest days of film: clips remind us of early stars and blockbusters. He explains how sound came to motion pictures: we see Jolson singing "Mammy" and John Barrymore playing Richard III. Next is a salute to the 30,000 people working in Hollywood at 272 different crafts. A montage shows us some of those jobs. It ends with a look at the physical production of celluloid (cotton and silver) and the many aspects of movie making. The narrator promises more short films about each step in production
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Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Laura La Plante, Walter Byron, John Sheehan |
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.
Running Time: 2 minutes each
Starring: Marilyn Monroe
An assortment of 16 Marilyn Monroe Trailers.
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Mrs. McNitt is a social climber, intent on her daughter Phyllis marrying Larry Lodge, a handsome rich kid. She's engaged a drama teacher, the punctilious Clifford Figfield, to cast Phyllis and Larry in a kissing scene. Her second husband, McNitt, gets a visit from his modest daughter, Sally, whom Mrs. McNitt wants out of sight. Larry meets Sally, she stands in during the kissing rehearsal, and Larry is now in love. It's a rocky courtship when, Larry thinks she's a maid who's Mr. McNitt's fluff on the side and when Mrs. McNitt tells Sally that Larry is a flirt engaged to Phyllis. Can it all be straightened out by the next day's dress rehearsal? And what of Figfield?
Running Time: 11 mins Black & White
Starring: Peter Smith, William Bailey, Heinie Conklin
This Pete Smith specialty looks at the annoying types of people we have all come into contact with when going to the movies. They include those who sit down, then take off their coats and scarves; people with aisle seats who stick their feet in the aisle; people who put their knees on the back of the seat in front of them; loud snackers. Smith also fantasizes various punishments for such movie pests. A humorous look at pesky movie-goers.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Les Hite, June Richmond
Starring: June Havoc
Running Time: 118 mins Black & White
Starring: June Havoc
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Running Time: 109 mins Black & White
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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Starring: Alfred Hitchcock
Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Sammy Davis Jr, Ethel Waters, Hamtree Harrington
Seven-year old Sammy Davis, Jr. plays Rufus Jones, elected president of the United States. Includes song and dance numbers performed by the talent himself.
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Directed by Hilary Harris.
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A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
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Starring: George Reeves
Clark Kent and Lois Lane, out for a stroll, discover a jewelry robbery in progress. Lois gets a good look at one of the burglars. Later Clark and Jimmy Olsen visit Jimmy's old school to discuss Superman's visit there to promote the U.S. Treasury Department's Savings Stamp program. In the meantime, Lois is captured by Blinky, the jewelry burglar she spotted. When Lois doesn't show up to join Clark and Jimmy, Clark realizes she's in trouble and arranges for Superman to save the day and still make his appearance at the school's Stamp Day.
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Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Ray, Sam Hardy, William Farnum |
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Eugen Sandow
Eugen Sandow, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, appears in the Edison Company's film studio.
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Running Time: 11 mins Color
Starring: Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
Starring: Frank Sinatra
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Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Carr, Russell Simpson, Lucile Browne |
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John
Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Ned Sparks, Antonio Moreno, Dorothy Sebastian |
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood
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Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Leon Errol
Professor Leon Errol, an authority on how to be charming, has a few too many drinks at the Ocean View Hotel and forgets all he knows on the subject. Among those he doesn't charm are his wife, his lawyer and his lawyer's wife, a blonde cutie he thinks he has bigamously married.
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Starring: Leon Errol
Running Time: 115 mins Color
A standard screen B&W prologue during which Lowell Thomas shows how, from the dawn of history, mankind has attempted to create the illusion of depth & movement by artistic, mechanical and photographic means. Cinerama format opens with Rockaway Playland Roller Coaster, then Temple Dance from "Aida", views of Niagra Falls, Long Island Choir - an early test of CineramaSound in B&W -, Canals of Venice, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, bullfight and musical performance in Spain, Act II finale of "AIDA" at La Scala Opera House, Milan. "Intermission 15 minutes" Act II commences with a sound demonstration - "we call it stereophonic sound" says LT. Then to Cypress Gardens, Florida, for trick water skiing and boating scenes. The last half of Act II- "America the Beautiful"- is viewed from the nose of a low flying B-25 aeroplane. Finally, credits.
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Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Eddie Borden, James Finlayson, Dorothy Granger |
Famed white hunter Trader Cohen leads the Chuzzlebottom expedition into darkest Africa.
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Running Time: 90 mins Black & White
Starring: George Moran, Charles Mack, Joan Peers |
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Jakub Goldberg, Henryk Kluba, Andrzej Kondratiuk
Short, very early film by the master of early film making, Roman Polanski. Two guys on a beach, and struggle to carry this enormous wardrobe.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Salvador Dali
by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali.
"Sitting comfortably in a dark room, dazzled by the light and the movement which exert a quasi-hypnotic power... fascinated by the interest of human faces and the rapid changes of place, [a] cultivated individual placidly accepts the most appalling themes...and all this naturally sanctioned by habitual morality, government, and international censorship, religion, dominated by good taste and enlivened by white humor and other prosaic imperatives of reality." - Luis Bunuel
Un Chien Andalou exists to shock the viewer of this stupor that Bunuel elucidates above. Freudian dream imagery, amorphous space/time, and absurdist humor combine in this drawn out mating ritual between a confused cyclist and the female he pursues. May be the most inventive fifteen minutes of film anywhere.
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Starring: Charlie Chase
Charlie hires three "party girls" to help him land a business deal.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Dorothy Granger, Carol Tevis, Grady Sutton
When Dorothy jilts her fiancee, he tries to make her jealous by getting a friend of his to dress like a woman and pose as his new girlfriend.
Running Time: 11 mins Black & White
Starring: James Cagney, Margaret O'Brien
John Jones' daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and contemplates how lucky he is in America, where no bombing occurs. He imagines "his baby" (Margaret O'Brien) suffering in the war-torn nations of England, Greece, China, Yugoslavia, France, and Russia, and thanks god that no harm has come to her. When he returns home, his daughter resumes her recitation of the Gettysburg Address with her parents as audience