Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Edwin August, Alfred Paget
A dangerous convict has escaped from prison and is skulking through the woods, pursued by prison officers. The officers separate and go in different directions in the hope of heading him off. This works well for the convict, who surprises one of the guards, and, overpowering him, makes him change clothes with him. About this time Edith is accompanying her sweetheart Jack to the railroad station in her auto and leaves in a huff, calling him a coward for not having entered into a street brawl with a drunken tramp, who insulted them on the way down. Jack has some time to wait before train time, and, upon looking after the departing auto, is surprised to see it held up by the disguised convict, who forces the girl to aid him in his escape. Two of the guards, arriving at the station, inform Jack of the true condition, and the three, knowing the railroad track to run parallel with the road, induce the train dispatcher to let them have an engine to pursue the fugitive and the girl. Here follows the most thrilling pursuit ever witnessed, a race between an engine, a touring car, and a racing auto. Jack now has an opportunity to prove his mettle and takes advantage of it.
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Phyllis Allen
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird
Wife plots to cure her husband of his inveterate poker playing.
Running Time: 33 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson
The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Running Time: 8 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Cooley, Minta Durfee
A woman's husband runs into trouble when he flirts with the wrong "girl."
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: James Russell
Sam Jones is a laborer, a wielder of the white-wash brush. He is in love with Lindy Williams. Having saved up quite a little money, Sam buys some swell second-hand clothes and goes to Lindy's home. Lindy's people are quite prosperous, her father having retired from his job as "Public Porter." Lindy is a coquettish ebony beauty and trifles with Sam's affections. She plays Sam against Bill Johnson and finally in despair Sam retires from the field. Walking along the road beaten and despondent, Sain finds a lot of money. Now, he vows, he will show them! He buys full dress clothes and other swell duds, an automobile and jewelry. Like a peacock he begins parading himself before Lindy and his rival, and, as can be expected, coquettish Lindy transfers her affections to him. Sam makes hay while the sun shines and proposes to Lindy and basks in her smiles. After his acceptance he sends out invitations to a reception, on which occasion he plans to announce his engagement. During the reception Bill Johnson and his pal, Slick Mr. Tighe, concoct a scheme to break Sam. They invite him to a poker game and by cleverly stacking the cards and passing aces under the table with their naked toes, Sam is relieved of his fortune. When Lindy is apprised of this she gives Sam the cold shoulder and offers her arm to Slick Mr. Tighe, the possessor of all of Sam's wealth.
Running Time: 67 mins Black & White
Starring: Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear, Edward José
A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon, June Elvidge
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
Running Time: 7 mins Black & White
Starring: Ford Sterling, James C. Morton, Gus Pixley
The grocery clerk's sympathies are aroused by the sight of hard-working Mrs. Brown, whose shiftless husband sits around and smokes, and spends his time at the saloon. The clerk wins Mrs. Brown's gratitude by doing the washing for her, and taking care of the chores around the house. Brown saunters out to the woods and comes upon three conspirators, who accuse him of being a spy and decide to kill him. Brown is tied to a tree stump, a charge of dynamite is placed under him, a fuse attached and lit, and Brown is saying his prayers when his little son finds him. The boy rushes home with the news, and the clerk does all in his power to prevent the rescue party reaching Brown in time. In his frantic struggles Brown frees himself and makes his escape just as the explosion takes place and the rescuers arrive. All believe him dead, and the grocery clerk immediately proposes to Mrs. Brown and she accepts him. They lose no time in getting a minister and the ceremony is about to proceed when Brown, who has gone to the village saloon to steady his shattered nerves, is informed that his wife is marrying the grocery clerk. He dashes to the scene and prevents the wedding, chases the clerk away and takes his unwilling spouse home to work again.
Running Time: 62 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, Katherine Griffith
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Running Time: 68 mins Black & White
Starring: Mae Murray, Frank Borzage, Hobart Bosworth
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.
Running Time: 24 mins Black & White
Starring: Mack Swain, Louella Maxam, Mai Wells
Just as the local movie theater is about to begin showing a picture, the star of the film arrives and comes to see the movie himself. On screen, the star must rescue his girl from danger. In the theater, the star finds that not all of the audience admires his acting as much as he does.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall
A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
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Running Time: 41 mins Black & White
Starring: Ben Turpin, Gypsy Abbott, Edward J. Laurie
Ben falls in love with Dora Darling, the star in a motion picture. He "finds" some money and starts for the studios. He is followed by the crooks, whose money he has appropriated. He is put to work in the studio as assistant property man, after giving them some of his money. Ben cannot make any progress with Dora because she and Demon Desmonde are already in love with each other. After many funny situations Ben is blown up by the crooks, but manages to escape alive; the crooks are arrested.
Running Time: 24 mins Black & White
Starring: Syd Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Glen Cavender
An inventor and his accomplice plan to rob a ship carrying gold bullion by using a submarine. A waiter overhears their plans, buys himself an admiral's uniform, tricks his way into command of the sub and plots to take the ship himself.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Charley Chase, Louise Fazenda, Harry Bernard
After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.
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Running Time: 38 mins Black & White
Starring: Asta Nielsen, Robert Dinesen, Poul Reumert
This story affords the renowned European actress, Asta Nielsen, an opportunity of displaying her wonderful ability as a great artist. It depicts the life of a young woman, who tiring of her husband and her life in attractive surroundings conceives a sudden admiration for a picturesque circus man. He also is attracted by her, and when he appears and demands that she cast in her lot with the circus folks, she yields and leaves her beautiful home for the wandering life of a circus. Under the tuition of her admirer, she becomes a gifted member of the "haute ecole." The new life fascinates her. Months pass, she becomes disillusioned, for her hero, Rudolph, proves fickle; he transfers his affections to another girl of the circus. There is a quarrel between the two women and Asta and Rudolph are discharged. Down they sink in the social scale; he becomes a dissolute ne'er do well, and she the pianist at a popular beer garden. Her husband during these months has never ceased to care for Asta and in a chance meeting persuades her to return to home and duty. She consents and while in the act of leaving, Rudolph appears and, exerting the old power over her, she remains with him. Still the husband is undaunted, and makes yet another effort to regain his wife, but Rudolph refuses to give her up. This time, the man and woman quarrel, and in the struggle which follows, Asta stabs him to death. She is arrested and taken away to prison, whilst her helpless husband looks on.
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings, Alec B. Francis
After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
Running Time: 11 mins Black & White
Starring: Augustus Carney, Harry Todd, Margaret Joslin
Both "Alkali" and "Mustang" Pete loved Betty Brown, and the lady had her hands full in keeping the lovers from shooting each other. One day "Alkali" called on Betty with a pair of handsome saddle horses and asked her to go riding with him. She agreed, but the resourceful "Mustang," driving up with a handsome horse and carriage, carried off the lady. "Alkali" goes to the village inn, inclined to drink himself to death, but finally trades for an old junk automobile his two horses, and clambering in the seat, starts in pursuit of his rival and the lady. Overtaking them, he has no difficulty in persuading Betty to ride with him. But the auto breaks down and "Alkali," endeavoring to fix it, turns on the juice and the rattle-trap car starts down the trail at lightning speed, leaving "Alkali" behind. After a thrilling and exciting ride the car is ditched and poor Betty is thrown headlong into the road.
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Gus Leonard
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward . . . and the girl.
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Starring: Kate Price, Billy Ruge
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, C.A. de Lima
A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, George Nichols
Priscilla, after a long and weary search, secures work at a farmhouse. She is at once ordered to do the washing, and is just ensconced at the tubs by the well when a young Italian peddler appears and is directed by her to the mistress. His wares appeal to the farm wife and he succeeds in disposing of quite a bill of goods. Leaving the mistress, the peddler passes on to Priscilla to thank her for bringing him to her mistress and to show his gratitude presents her with a cheap finger ring, at the same time bestowing upon her words of flattery. The poor innocent little girl is quite overwhelmed and believes every word he utters, treasuring the ring highly, which was not worth more than a nickel. The peddler's principal weakness is gambling, and he not only loses his money, but becomes involved in debt. His creditors press him for payment and he is at a loss as to how to raise the necessary sum, when the thought of the little country maid occurs to him. He knows he has gained her confidence, and that she loves him, hence he considers his plan easy. She, of course, has no money of her own, but she knows her master keeps his money in a sock under his pillow. The peddler persuades her to secure this money pretending that he will take her away with him and marry her. This suggestion fairly hypnotizes her and so she commits the theft. The peddler pockets the money and promises to meet her at their usual trysting-place by the roadside. Here she repairs only to learn that the scoundrel has just left on the night train. Wildly she dashes towards the railroad only to see the train on its way. Crushed in spirit she wanders off, but the reckoning is inevitable. Fate now takes a hand and on the train the peddler engages in a brawl, during which he tumbles from the flying train. Struggling to his feet he drags himself to the woods. Here the maid meets him, and he in a burst of rage attempts to strike her, but injured more seriously than he realizes, he falls dead at the foot of a tree. With this comes a vivid realization of her deed and, securing the money she had taken from the farmer she hastens to make reparation by putting the money back from where she took it, the master being none the wiser. The affair has taught her a powerful lesson.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth
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 as their scheme seems to have succeeded.
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Running Time: 73 mins Black & White
Starring: Nell Shipman, Charles Arling, Wheeler Oakman
A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.
Running Time: 11 mins Black & White
Starring: Larry Semon, Madge Kirby, Frank Alexander
A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
Running Time: 29 mins Black & White
Starring: Mae Marsh, Leslie Loveridge, Alfred Paget
The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action packed battle in a western town.
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes
In the days of '61 how many of the brave soldiers were urged to deeds of valor and heroism by thoughts of "the girl he left behind." This story tells of the transforming of a pusillanimous coward into a lion-hearted hero by the derision of the girl he loved. The battle takes place outside her home, and he, panic-stricken, rushes in, trembling with fear, to hide. She laughs in scorn at his cowardice and commands him to go back and fight. Her fortitude inspires him and he manages to rejoin his company before his absence is noticed. Ammunition is low and somebody must take the hazardous journey to procure more from another regiment, which he volunteers to do. This undertaking cannot be adequately described, for the young man faces death at every turn. The most thrilling part of his experience is where the opposing forces build bonfires along the road to menace the powder-wagon.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Juliette Day, Charles Marriott, Joe King
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty. The young man, named Dick, becomes acquainted with Betty, whose father Timothy Bakewell is looking for a treasure island, together with Captain Crook and his pirates. The father is beaten up by the robbers, and is left behind on the island. Dick decides to go after Tobias Crook. Meanwhile, the pirates arrive at the home of Betty, where she is harassed. But her rescue is close at hand, and Dick embraces her in his arms.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard
A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his 'title.'
Running Time: 23 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Murray, Louise Fazenda, Mary Thurman
When a new reformist mayor refuses to cave to corruption, his opponents plot terroristic reprisal. Their efforts go awry in very goofy ways (including some wild stunts). This rambunctious comedy from Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios features his stars Charles Murray as a scheming campaign manager and Louise Fazenda as the the fiancee he unwisely scorns in favor of the mayor's daughter. Initially released as BOMBS!, it is presented here in a retitled 1920 reissue print.
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Starring: Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Rosemary Theby
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Virginia True Boardman, Ernest Van Pelt
Broncho Billy, an outlaw, after robbing a stagecoach, goes to the cabin of an old man who lives with his daughter and demands food. While here the posse comes along and Broncho orders the girl out to tell them that he has not been seen, while he holds the old man at the point of a gun threatening him with death if he opens his mouth. The posse believe the girl, so go on. When Broncho leaves, the girl, mad with anger, brings out a Winchester and shoots him in the head. He drags himself to a hollow stump, where he hides the money he stole. He then makes his way to a small town, where he goes to the church and tells the minister and his wife how he was accidentally shot. Broncho lived at the minister's home for some time and becomes converted. One night he steals out, taking with him a Bible. Heleaves a note saying he lied about being accidentally shot and that he is an outlaw. He goes, to the sheriff's office with his loot and gives himself up. Years later find him a prisoner in the penitentiary. He still has his Bible and each morning conducts a prayer meeting in the chapel. Finally one morning he is called into the warden's office and given his freedom for good behavior.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: Harry Carey, Molly Malone, L.M. Wells
A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.
Running Time: 148 mins Black & White
Starring: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
During the Punic Wars in the third century B.C. the little girl Cabiria, and her nurse Croessa, are abducted during the confusion caused by an eruption of Mount Etna. Cabiria is sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in the temple of Moloch. Fulvio Axilla, a Roman spy, and his slave, Maciste, rescue her and she ends up in the care of Queen Sophonisba. Ten years later, after many wars and alliances, Carthage falls to the Romans and Cabiria returns home with Fulvio.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Snub' Pollard, Mildred Davis, Ernest Morrison
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.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Billy Quirk, Blanche Cornwall, Lee Beggs
A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
Running Time: 100 mins Black & White
Starring: Helen Gardner, Pearl Sindelar, Miss Fielding
The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ulimately disastrous for both of them.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Louise Fazenda, Dave Morris, Al St. John
After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly confronting him.
Running Time: 68 mins Black & White
Starring: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Fred Mace, Mabel Normand, Phillip Parmalee
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Stan Laurel, Bunny Bixby, Mary Burns
A janitor ends up in the middle of a lover's feud.
Running Time: 1 min Black & White
Starring: Ora Carew, Joseph Belmont, Nick Cogley
A country girl and a foppish Englishman inherit an estate, and the terms say that it can't be divided. The terms also state that the two must get married, and if one refuses, then the other gets the entire estate. The girl schemes with her twin brother to trick the Englishman out of his part of the inheritance.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Larry Semon, Madge Kirby, William Hauber
A man and his wife are having trouble financially and barely have anything to eat. The grocer and butcher visit and, seeing that the couple cannot pay them, take things from their apartment. Next, a group of men arrive and the couple quickly lock the door to the room, put on disguises and escape to the roof though the window. After a series of incidents, they discover that the men are actually there to tell the man that he has inherited a fortune.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
Running Time: 78 mins Black & White
Starring: Clara Kimball Young, Gareth Hughes, Pauline Starke
A young woman at a crossroads is shown what her future would be like for each choice.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron
An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison with strict discipline, drills, etc. On the evening of the day the picture opens, the oldest boy wishes to go out to make a call on his sweetheart, but the old soldier commands the boy to stay at home. This command the boy is loath to obey, but his father, himself brought up under rigid military rule, rails at his insubordination of the boy, and threatens that if the boy goes out he goes for good. The boy does go, however, and returning finds sure enough the door barred against him. Sad and homeless he wanders, but it is fortunate he goes for the next morning he views from a distance a tribe of Indians starting out on the warpath. With this lead, he with valiant effort, secures the aid of a troop of patrolling soldiers, who rescue the boy's family and sweetheart just in time. The military training imbued by the old soldier stood in good, as it was the means of holding the Indians at bay until help arrived.
Running Time: 52 mins Black & White
Starring: Frederick Warde, Helen Badgley, Ernest Howard
The productions from Thanhouser's mature period, 1915-1917, clearly show the advancements that set the stage for the first cinematic golden age, the 1920s. Such advances are evident in this surviving shortened version of FIRES OF YOUTH; detailed character development by veteran actor Frederick Warde (and in a smaller role, at least in the shortened version, by Jeanne Eagels), mature editing techniques, special lighting effects, intelligent story development, realistic use of locations, fluid dialogue inter-titles, complex staging and access to better cameras with the defeat of the Patents Trust. Acclaimed French stage and film director Emile Chautard was brought from Éclair studio in France to direct.
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, Howard Gaye
In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Hill Mailes, Charles West, Blanche Sweet
A physician, through his love for his only son, whom he desires to see wealthy, is tempted to sacrifice his honor by concocting a soft drink containing cocaine, knowing how rapid and powerful is the hold obtained by cocaine, even in the most minute quantities, feeling assured that there will be an enormous demand for the drink. As he expected, the drink meets with tremendous success, and his balm to his conscience is the thought that he will be rich. But his son, ignorant of the ingredients of the drink, cultivates a liking for it, unknown to the father. The father discovers his son's weakness too late, for he soon becomes a hopeless victim of the drug. What a powerful lesson the final scene teaches, as we see the stricken father mourning his son's death. He did not care whom he victimized until he found the result of his dishonor at his own door.
Running Time: 38 mins Black & White
Starring: Gene Gauntier, J.J. Clark, Sidney Olcott
Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
Running Time: 40 mins Black & White
Starring: Emma Bauer, Tasya Borman, N. Dennitsyna
Since Zoya Verenskaya's husband passed away ten years ago, she has been devoted to her daughter Lee. At present, Lee is in poor health, and she is in danger of losing her eyesight. Zoya's suitor Dmitry wants to get married, but Zoya is determined to wait until Lee is better. Then, on a vacation in the Crimea, they learn Lee's true feelings for Dmitry, and suddenly all of their lives are thrown into turmoil.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Sidney Drew, Mrs. Sidney Drew, Ethel Lee
Ferdie's wife is fox-trot crazy, wanting to go dancing all the time. To get out of it, Ferdie fakes an ankle injury. When his wife spies him walking without his crutch, she writes a letter to her stern mother, inviting her to stay with them while Ferdie heals. Rather than face his mother-in-law, Ferdie admits he was faking his injury, and tears up the letter.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Lucky Douglas, Leonard Picot, Ben Velthuizen
A rich and miserable motion picture studio owner and veteran of the Great War, has for years lived with sorrow and bitterness after losing his wife to influenza. He is helped by a poor family and learns there is more to life than his sorrow and his money, Frank Georges learns the Truth. A dramatic comedy produced in pantomime.
Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Stan Laurel, Larry Semon, Madge Kirby
Director Larry Semon and a young Stan Laurel costar as prisoners loafing on the chain gang. As both comrades and rivals, their paired movements result in strikingly choreographed slapstick. A climactic chase through the streets of 1918 Los Angeles is packed with the kind of spectacular stunts that made Semon one of the biggest names in silent comedy at the time.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Gentleman of Nerve
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend is attempting to enter the raceway through a hole, the friend gets stuck and a policeman shows up. Charlie sprays the policeman with soda until he friends makes it through the hole. In the grandstand, Mabel abandons her beau for Charlie. Both Charlie's friend and Mabel's are arrested and hauled away.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Winsor McCay, George McManus, Roy L. McCardell
The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurus back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: William Russell, William Garwood, Marguerite Snow
An investment plan that tells potential investors they can "get rich quickly" turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all their money.
Running Time: 29 mins Black & White
Starring: J. Barney Sherry, Mildred Harris, Frank Borzage
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.
Running Time: 80 mins Black & White
Starring: Paul Biensfeldt, Lil Dagover, Georg John
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.
Running Time: 117 mins Black & White
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Adolph Lestina
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: John Bunny, Flora Finch, Helene Costello
A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Leatrice Joy
Our heroine is obsessed with the idea that she can and must sing. Living on a farm she has lots of open space in which to exercise her voice, but is compelled to admit that not even the cows and chickens will listen to her. During an opportunity to sing in the choir she awakens every living thing, among others a number of peacefully sleeping members of the congregation. From the city comes a smooth-talking man who promises her the world if she will only be his. They go to the big city where, at a trial given to her in a cabaret, she nearly causes a riot. Of course, everything ends happily.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: George Nichols, Owen Moore, Florence Barker
A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son locate his absent-minded father before it is too late for the girl?
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Starring: Hank Mann
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Starring: Mack Swain
Running Time: 62 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Clarence Handyside, Rene Boucicault
A young man can only get the woman he loves if he becomes famous and manages to get his picture in the newspapers. He determines to let nothing stand in the way of his doing exactly that, and in the process winds up getting involved with a gang of criminals and a locomotive chase.
Running Time: 22 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, May Wallace
Charlie dreams he is in the stone age. There King Low-Brow rules a harem of wives. Charlie, in skins and a bowler, falls in love with the king's favorite wife, Sum-Babee. During a hunting trip the king is pushed over a cliff. Charlie proclaims himself king, but Ku-Ku discovers the real king alive. They return to find Charlie and Sum- Babee together.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Lee Willard, Marguerite Clayton
The outlaw and his pals plot to rob the general store. He goes into the store with the intention of attracting the attention of the storekeeper while the rest of the gang enter from the rear. But the girl is the one who meets him and the outlaw feels a vague desire to reform at sight of her. He calls off the gang and orders them to let the store alone. But they are determined. While he is out of the camp gathering wood for the fire, they plot to overpower him. When he comes back they overpower him and leave him tied while they set out to rob. He frees himself by rolling into the fire and burning his bonds. He sets off in pursuit. He comes upon them in the act of robbing the store, forces them away at the point of his gun and accepts the thanks of the girl. Then he sorrowfully rides away.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Wilfred Lucas, Claire McDowell, Adele DeGarde
The sequel to "His Trust." The opening scene takes place four years afterwards. The war has closed, and the negroes leave to enjoy their emancipation, but George remains true to his trust. He has all these years cared for the widow and her child. The poor woman, worn with worry and heartache is stricken and dies. The care of the child devolves upon George, who takes her to the lawyer, with whom he arranges for a home for her, paying for her support one of his savings, enjoining absolute secrecy on the part of the lawyer. For several years things to along uneventfully until the child, now grown, desires to go to the seminary to procure an advanced education. To the lawyer this seems impossible, but George, when he sees the girl, breaks down and weeps, insists that he take the last of his savings and appropriate it for the purpose. This is an awful ordeal which old George goes through, denying himself even the positive necessities of life in order to keep her in school for the full term. However, at the end of the first term there is nothing left of George's savings and the lawyer is forced to inform the girl that a return to school is impossible. To witness the child's disappointment is more than old, faithful George can stand, and going to the lawyer's office, he finds a cousin from Europe there, inquiring as to the condition and whereabouts of Miss Frazier. George entering the office surreptitiously espies a fat wallet in the Englishman's coat pocket. His love for the child and his desire to grant her every wish leads him into temptation, so he takes the pocket-book. However, he has hardly secured it when his better self asserts itself and he puts it back, but not before he is detected. The lawyer, knowing the negro's worth, realizes what prompted his action and sends him off. The English cousin later meets the girl and they are betrothed and a happy wedding follows shortly after. Old George, at a distance, views the festivities with tears of joy streaming down his black, but honest, cheeks, and after they depart for their new home, he goes back to his cabin, takes down his master's saber and fondles it, happy in the realization that he has fulfilled his trust.
Running Time: 32 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain
Charlie's wife sends him to the store for a baby bottle with milk. Elsewhere, Ambrose offers to post a love letter for a woman in his boarding house. The two men meet at a restaurant and each takes the other's coat by mistake. Charlie's wife thinks he has a lover; Ambrose's believes he has an illegitimate child.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: George Ovey
One of the "Jerry" series from Folly Comedies. "Jerry, whose uncle left him a fortune, but forgot where he left it."
Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Josephine Crowell, Lillian Gish
John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown
A little orphan girl believes that her life is falling apart. It seems that everything that could possibly go wrong does go wrong. However, certain things happen that begin to make her suspect that maybe she has been cursed by a doll, or is it really a doll?
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Stan Laurel, Dorothy Coburn, Mrs. Fleming
After missing his train, Stan Laurel meets a Good Samaritan who invites him back to his home for rest and relaxation. It proves a most arduous vacation but even amidst the angry suffragettes and demanding hosts, Laurel hazards into love.
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Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: Barry O'Brien, Patrick Ennis, Dominick Reilly
The story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
Running Time: 61 mins Black & White
Starring: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh
A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard
A married young man with a dog and his married next door neighbor with two young children - the two men who are best friends - are trying to catch the train from the city to their home deep in the suburbs, obstacle after obstacle which is jeopardizing the young man's ability to catch that train. Once home, the young man is hoping to place the plants he is bringing from the city in his glass covered garden bed, while the neighbor is wanting to build a chicken coop for the two chicken he also brought from the city. As the neighbors, along with the wives, children and dog, go about their business, largely in their respective back yards, they all get into one altercation after another which threatens their friendship and good neighbor relationship. Is there anything that can bring their respective relationships back to that of good neighbors?
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Stan Laurel, Clarine Seymour, Noah Young
A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Frederick Warde, Lorraine Huling, Wayne Arey
Lear is an old man blind to his weaknesses. He decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters according to who recites the best declaration of love. Goneril and Regan pretend to love him but treat him cruelly. Cordelia is loyal but, confusing honesty with insolence, he disowns her.
Running Time: 24 mins Black & White
Starring: William S. Hart, Leona Hutton, Frank Borzage
A cowboy must regain the love of his fiancé, who has found out about his past as a thief and bank robber and broken off their engagement. In her anger at him, she agrees to marry a no-account who, unknown to her, is planning to take her money and leave her at the altar
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Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Julia Swayne Gordon, Robert Gaillard, Kate Price
In medieval Coventry a woman takes a naked horse ride to protest against her husbands policy of high taxation.
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
A series of images from one of Spain's oldest cities and now part of UNESCO's World Heritage, the great Toledo. Segundo de Chomón's short film explores the place's old constructions, bridges, magnificent walls and other important monuments, most of them dating back from several centuries ago.
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
An artist tries to sell some canvases to a client, each of which appears to be covered in a single colour -- until you take a closer look.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Ed Brady
A city slicker is driving through a small town when his car has a flat. A local boy and his girlfriend walk by and the boy volunteers to fix the man's tire. While he's doing that, the city slicker makes a move on the boy's girlfriend and persuades her to go back to the city with him. After she leaves, her boyfriend packs up and goes to the city to try to win her back.
Running Time: 421 mins Black & White
Starring: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Running Time: 42s mins Black & White
Starring: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Running Time: 421 mins Black & White
Starring: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Running Time: 25 mins Black & White
Starring: Mae Marsh, W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. But that was before the man from the valley lost his way and later found it back again, bearing away the little tease to the valley. While she suffered the qualms of broken faith, her father passed through a like struggle, for he felt the precepts of the "beloved book" had failed him. He closed the door of his cabin upon the world and the light from his window, lighting the wayfarer over the mountain path, disappeared. The struggle over, it came hack in its place in time to beckon the little tease as she left the valley behind.
Running Time: 41 mins Black & White
Starring: Paul Wegener, Grete Berger, Lyda Salmonova
Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
Running Time: 44 mins Black & White
Starring: Giuseppe de Liguoro, Eugenia Tettoni Fior, Ubaldo Maria Del Colle
Film adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey.'
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Blanche Sweet, Francis J. Grandon, Wilfred Lucas
The station at Lonedale is in charge of an old operator and his daughter. The young engineer who makes the run between Lonedale and civilization is the sweetheart of the operator's daughter, and upon receiving his call on this particular day he escorts her to the station, where, finding her father suffering from a nervous headache, she takes his place at the key after bidding adieu to her engineer sweetheart as he mounts into the cabin of his engine and rolls away. As her father leaves he discovers that his revolver is out of order and takes it with him to fix it. The old operator has forgotten, however, that this is the first of the month, on which a large sum of money is expressed to the station from the city office of the Lonedale Mining Company for the payroll. The train pulls in and she receives the express bag of money. Two tramps who are riding the rods see this delivery and assuming that the girl is in charge, get off to take their chances of securing the money. The windows all being heavily barred they make for the back door, which the girl, hearing an unusual noise, hastens to lock. They find it an easy matter to break through this. After locking the doors she rushes to the telegraph key and sends a call for help to the next station, some miles up the road, where she knows the train will stop. The locomotive driven by the girl's sweetheart is dispatched. Meanwhile the tramps are slowly but surely making their way through the barriers to the room where the money is guarded by the girl. She keeps her wits and when the thieves finally break into the room they find it in darkness, as the girl has turned out the light and by the gleam of the moonlight that penetrates the window they see the girl's outstretched arm and hand holding a streak of dangerous-looking steel directed full in their faces which forces them in the corner. On, on, rushes the engine until Lonedale is reached and a dash into the station is made by the engineer and fireman, who find the two would-be burglars held at bay by a weak woman armed with a nickel-plated monkey wrench which the tramps in the dark mistook for a pistol.
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley, Isabel O'Madigan
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Mack Swain, Minta Durfee, Chester Conklin
After Walrus has been shot, Ambrose takes him into his house. When Ambrose sees Walrus flirting with his wife he leaves. When Walrus runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, Ambrose gets on a horse to save her. The Keystone Kops are also after Walrus.
Running Time: 47 mins Black & White
Starring: Olive Thomas, Joe King, William V. Mong
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.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Charley Chase
Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Running Time: 61 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Marshall Neilan, Olive West
The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.
Running Time: 38 mins Black & White
Starring: Mildred Harris, Violet MacMillan, Fred Woodward
The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen. The man in the moon tells them that their messenger should give it to the first miserable person she sees. Two children, Fluff and her younger brother "Bud" (a child's attempt at "brother," which stuck), have just lost their father and are taken by Aunt Rivette to live in Nole, the capital city of Noland, where the king has just died without heir. The messenger gives Fluff the cloak, who wishes to be happy again, while a legal loophole places Bud on the throne, and they empty the treasury to buy toys. Their pet mule Nickodemus is captured by robbers and puts together a small animal army (including the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, the Lonesome Zoop, the Woozy, and others) to battle the Rolly Rogues that have invaded the city. The cloak is nowhere to be found because 683 year old bewitching Queen Zixi of neighboring Ix, has been informed by Quavo the minstrel of the cloaks power, and wants to see herself young and beautiful, as others see her, but she cannot.
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: A.E. Coleby
Factory workers make Christmas crackers, a process that is shown in detail. Later, a family gathers around the tree at Christmas and enjoys their noise-making toys. Finally, Santa Claus emerges from a gigantic cracker.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: W. Chrystie Miller, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh
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.
Running Time: 7 mins Black & White
In this early stop-motion silent film a fairy grants two dolls, Mary and Gretel life but tells them not to pick the flowers in the forest. Meanwhile some gnomes take a keg back to their cave followed by a white rabbit. Mary and Gretel come upon Rip Van Winkle and tickle his nose with a branch he wakes up but then goes back to sleep. They follow a squirrel to the mouth of the gnomes cave. Inside the gnomes start playing bowling and drinking ale from the keg. The rabbit now in the cave too starts sneaking drinks from the keg when the gnomes aren't looking. This film was released in 1916.
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
A fairy brings two dolls to life, part of a short lived stop-motion puppet series
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder
Running Time: 3 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder, Stacia Napierkowska, Jane Renouardt
Our versatile friend, Max Linder, is an objectionable suitor because of his small stature. To remedy this defect of nature he tries walking on stilts and his maneuvers are extremely funny . Before he has perfected himself in this difficult art he reads of a new machine which will make people stouter or taller as they prefer. Poor Max presses the wrong key, with a result that is entirely new in motion pictures.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder, Martha Mansfield, Mathilde Comont
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder, Jane Renouardt, Henri Collen
Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck, and entertains no wish of marrying him, though her mother is anxious to see her make the alliance. The parents finally manage to bring the young people together, and they, in turn, exert all their skill in an attempt to disgust each other. An accidental meeting between the two when they are off guard causes them to change their minds, and, as a climax of the scene, we see them gently clasped in each other's arms. The scene following, and the last one, is subtitled, Six Months Later. The girl appears with a baby in her arms in a filthy tenement house. Max enters as a broken-down sport, and demands money from her. She refuses to part with her last cent, and, in the quarrel and struggle that follows, he kills her, and then - the curtain falls and the spectator discovers that he has been witnessing Max and his wife in a drama within a drama. They have fulfilled their stage ambitions, besides satisfying their parents.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder
The dapper Max is excited to sneak shots of a Rubenesque beauty, because he's bored, with nothing else to photograph on the deserted French beach. But she pays him off, not to even peak at her in her bathing suit. As she's attempting to get ashore, she desperately tries to avoid his snapping away. Swimming back out, she disappears under the ocean, driving Max frantic with guilt.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder, Georges Coquet, Lucy d'Orbel
Max needs a tonic after an illness, and the doctor prescribes a Bordeaux glass of wine three times a day. One proves to be enough, as Max drinks a quart glass of wine and proceeds to get into trouble.
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Running Time: 51 mins Black & White
Starring: Valdemar Psilander, Clara Pontoppidan, Henry Seemann
A Mormon missionary seduces and kidnaps an attractive young woman, forcing her to accompany him to Utah to become one of his wives.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy
This picture is intended to portray the evil of the gangster in New York. The first scene shows New York's other side. The poor musician is engaged to be married to a young woman and leaves for another city to accept an engagement whereby to improve his condition monetarily.While he is away the little one is forced to work at sewing to support her invalid mother and herself. Later on, in going to deliver some of her work, she meets "Snapper Kid" who is the chief of one faction of the gangsters of Pig Alley in the slum quarters. There are two factions of these gangsters. Like the musketeers of old, they go about, each side alert that they will not be taken unawares by the other. About this time the little girl's mother dies and she finds herself alone, but the musician returns with replenished purse to become the protector of the little orphan. He meets the musketeers in Pig Alley and "Snapper Kid" relieves him of his wallet. Going to the girl, he vows to her that he will recover his stolen money at all hazard, and consequently leaves to make the rounds through the slums in the hope of apprehending the thief. In this new sorrow, a friend stops in to see the little lady and induces her to go with her to the ball, hoping thereby to cheer her a little. At the ball, the girl meets one of the gang, and he being a decent looking chap, she dances with him and accepts his invitation to drink a soft drink. This he drugs, and had it not been for "Snapper Kid" who sees this act from a distance, she would have drunk it, but the kid intervenes. This further riles the other faction of the gang, and fearing the "Big Boss" they go outside to settle the trouble. We show several scenes of their following each other with the hope of one taking the other by surprise. For a long time they are ever on the alert. Finally a gun fight ensues and in the struggle "Snapper Kid" rushes through one of the hallways in his endeavor to escape the police, and is met by the musician, who, before the kid realizes what he has done, recovers his wallet, making his way hurriedly back to the girl. The kid has no chance to recover his equilibrium, for the police are on his heels, and he rushes through the dark hallways until he finally comes to the apartment of the girl, just after the musician has reached there. The police trail him to this point, but as he had saved the girl from disaster the night of the ball, she, reasoning that one good turn deserves another, enables him to give an alibi to the officer which frees him.
Running Time: 25 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Allan Sears
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with "Leaping Fishes", and the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the "fish blower" girl. Will Coke be able to free the girl ?
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: Edna Flugrath, Robert Lett, Shirley Mason
Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Loretta Blake, Theodore Reed
A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find out and take her to the ball with them.
Running Time: 5 mins Black & White
Starring: Ernest Bourbon, Raymond Aimos, Berthe Dagmar
The only way Onésime could think of to get his inheritance quicker was to set the clocks forward. Surprise: the whole world starts speeding up wildly.
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Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: William Garwood, Florence La Badie
Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: William Garwood, Florence La Badie
Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: Polidor, Augusto Mastripietri, Natalino Guillaume
The old carpenter Geppeto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, swallowed by a whale, taken prisoner by the Indians, saved by Canadian soldiers and, even, returned home mounted on a cannonball that flies through the sky.
Running Time: 48 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Eugene O'Brien, Antonio Maiori
A little girl is kidnapped by the Mafia in revenge for her father's help in capturing one of the mobsters. She is presumed dead, but in reality is spirited away to Italy, where she is raised as the daughter of a kindly couple. When she is betrothed to the cruel padrone, she disguises herself as a boy and stows away to America, where she finds herself once again in the clutches of the mobster who originally kidnapped her. But this time luck and her own pluck are with her, and the tables are soon turned.
Running Time: 4 mins Black & White
A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl.
Running Time: 59 mins Black & White
Starring: Thomas Jefferson, Clarette Clare, Harry Blakemore
Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: George Lessey, Julia M. Taylor, Mrs. George W. Walters
An ill-fated pair of teenage lovers are destroyed by the feud between their families.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Vittoria Lepanto, Laura Orette, Ciro Galvani
Running Time: 44 mins Black & White
Starring: Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian
Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
Running Time: 77 mins Black & White
Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Eugenie Besserer, Carol Dempster
A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Ford Sterling, Billy Jacobs
A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Fritz Schade
Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
A phlegmatic pickpocket is arrested and taken to his cell. As he is an unusually wily customer, he is bound by fetters and chained to the wall. Speedily putting these off, he is locked up by the enraged warders in a chest, but escapes and is finally thrown into the river tied up in a sack. Coming up from the water again, perfectly dry and safe, he makes a bicycle for himself and rides off furiously, springing ultimately onto a passing train which bars his passage. In this way he is carried along on his bicycle for some distance, but reaching the river again, he descends on his machine, performs a few revolutions in mid-air, the reflection of the bicycle showing up clearly on the face of the water, and then lands in a sumptuous room. The police follow, but are baffled by the continued disappearing tricks of the clever thief, who dissolves from view and reappears in the most unexpected places. At last he is captured in the police station itself and carried once more to his cell, but crashes through the iron bars with little trouble, leaving his warders safely under lock and key.
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Dorothy Cumming, Creighton Hale, Lionel Braham
Snow White is a motherless princess, who arouses the jealousy and hatred of Mary Jane, her mother's former lady-in-waiting, who is the ugliest woman in the kingdom, but aspires to the throne. She gives her heart to the witch, Hex, in return for which she becomes beautiful and wins the love of the king. While hunting, the king falls from his horse and is killed, leaving Mary Jane, who has been rechristened Brangomar, upon the throne. Brangomar forces Snow White to work in the kitchen and takes her lovely clothes away from her. When Snow White accidentally meets a young hunter she becomes interested in him and he is fascinated, though neither has any idea who the other is. So they are dumbfounded when he comes to Snow White's castle and presents a letter to the queen, asking for the hand of Snow White, for he is the Prince Florimund, who has been sent to ask for the hard of the little princess, whom he has never seen. Brangomar, who believed that the prince was coming to sue for her hand, is furious. She decides to kill the little girl and forces old Berthold, a hunter, and Snow White's devoted slave, to promise to kill the child. He is to bring her the heart of Snow White as proof of his act. Berthold takes Snow White into the woods and tells her what he has been forced to promise and she tells him to kill a pig and take its heart back to the queen. While he is doing this, a bird leads Snow White to the cabin of the seven little dwarfs, where she wins their undying gratitude. When the queen discovers that Snow White has escaped her, she tries to kill her with a magic comb and then inveigles her into biting a poisoned apple. Snow White falls prostrate and is discovered by the dwarfs, who carry her body in state to the palace, where the queen rejoices until the furious Prince Florimund threatens to kill her. In the excitement the dwarfs drop the casket, in which there lies the body of Snow White, and she awakens. The apple had stuck in her throat and she had not swallowed it. The witch turns Brangomar into a peacock and all ends happily.
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: Maria Bay, Ernesto Vaser
A pretty story with a moral for little wicked boys. A bad boy teases a companion who is blowing bubbles and takes his pipe away. He blows a bubble and in it he sees a vision of his mother, lying sick in bed imploring him to be good if he would save her from dying of a broken heart. Twice the vision appears, and the boy, strongly moved, rushes home and throwing himself at his mother's feet promises to be good forever after, and not to cause her any grief.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard
Harold is a bookkeeper who works in an office but can't keep his mind on his job -- the spring weather is too nice to stay indoors. After escaping from his office he romps in the park instead.
Running Time: 57 mins Black & White
Starring: Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, King Baggot, Owen Moore
Edward Jackson brings Polly Riblett to his mother for her blessing, who takes the girl in her arms. The lovers walk away to plan for the future and the venerable woman is lost in thought; her mind reverts to her youth, which is very interesting, and constitutes the greater part of this drama. Mrs. Jackson awakens from her reverie, saddened by the memories. Her face is tear-stained and her body convulsed with sobs. Edward and Polly approach and she turns to them joyfully. She again takes the young girl in her arms and clings to her, admonishing Edward to cherish and protect her. Edward is embraced and extolled as a dutiful son. The young people receive the blessings of the parent.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, Marion Emmons
He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around, the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's honor as a switchman, when the struggle between love and duty came and later to come to the aid of his parents in the hands of the desperate counterfeiters, eventually causing their capture.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.
Running Time: 25 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: Barry O'Moore, Julian Reed, Richard Neill
When a burglar dressed as Santa Claus steals a family's Christmas presents, amateur detective Octavius sets out to recover the loot.
Running Time: 30 mins Black & White
Starring: Renee Carl, Albert Reusy
Drama that tells the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, at the hands of Muslims.
Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: Miriam Nesbitt, George Lessey, Robert Brower
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
Running Time: 78 mins Black & White
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet
Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
Running Time: 74 mins Black & White
Starring: General Beauvoir De Lisle
Documentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army's participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
Running Time: 6 mins Black & White
Starring: F. Percy Smith
"Percy Smith (1880-1944) was world famous as a photographer of plant life. Probably the first British example of time-lapse photography as applied to the growth of plants." Montly Film Bulletin, November 1955
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: Asta Nielsen, Valdemar Psilander, Gunnar Helsengreen
Two men of high rank are both wooing the beautiful and famous equestrian acrobat Stella. While Stella ignores the jeweler Hirsch, she accepts Count von Waldberg's offer to follow her home, where she falls in his arms. At her party some days later Hirsch turns up uninvited. He says he wants to give Stella a piece of jewelry, but she repulses his advances. When Waldberg sees this he knocks Hirsch down. Hirsch challenges him to a duel by cards. Waldberg loses all his money, and in the end also has to sign a promissory note on 85.000, which should be paid within 24 hours. To help Waldberg solve his debt Stella goes to Hirsch to receive the brooch he has promised her. While he turns away, she steals a precious necklace from him, but he happens to see the theft in a mirror. He tails her to a park, where he sees Stella giving the necklace to Waldberg. Hirsch tells Stella to come to him at midnight, if she wants him to be silent about the theft. When Waldberg finds out that Stella is going to Hirsch in the night, he becomes jealous and goes there as well. By mistake he happens to shoot Stella, who reveals her sacrifice for him before she dies.
Running Time: 8 mins Black & White
Starring: Mack Sennett, Dell Henderson, Mabel Normand
At the Hunting Lodge there arrives a great braggadocio who boasts that he, while in Africa, only went in quest of big game, showing a lot of skins as trophies of his expeditions. Out he starts, accoutered in the most approved fashion, to add to his already extensive collection by bringing back some more embryonic floor rugs, and he came near getting them, or rather, they came near getting him.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Harron
Perhaps no two subjects have concerned both judiciary circles and public alike more than the third degree and circumstantial evidence. The justice of their use in convicting a victim has always been an open question. While this subject takes no side in the matter and leaves the question still unsolved, it attempts to present the situation as it is in vivid, logical portrayal, and perchance may cause the more thoughtful to consider whether these principles, as carried out, work for the common good. The youth of the story passes through both ordeals. Truth is brought to light and the strong arm of the law foreseen.
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge?
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Wladyslaw Starewicz
A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars very realistic animated beetles.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Chester Conklin, Harry Booker, Charles Arling
An explosives and black powder expert visits a powder factory in order to inspect it, but when he appears to be more interested in its female workers, an explosive situation results.
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Running Time: 25 mins Black & White
Starring: Georges Tréville
An adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story about a father trying to gain control of his daughter's inheritance does not include Watson.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Helen Bray
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie.
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Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: Mae Murray, Richard Cummings, Harry L. Rattenberry
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.
Running Time: 21 mins Black & White
Starring: Gale Henry, Milburn Morante, Hap Ward
Aspiring detective Lizzie goes to Chinatown to track down some stolen papers, not realizing she's had them in her pocket all along.
Running Time: 7 mins Black & White
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Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.
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Starring: John E. Brennan, Ruth Roland, Marshall Neilan
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.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: William Garwood, Marie Eline, Florence La Badie
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000.
Running Time: 24 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Murray, Louise Fazenda, Harry Booker
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles West, Claire McDowell, Mary Pickford
Dreary indeed is the aspect of the little mining camp, deserted by all but four survivors of the terrors of this desert land. The graves in the background vividly tell a story of privation and suffering. The little party comprises a miner, his wife and her sister, and a young woman, who is the sole survivor of another family nearby. Death is inevitable should they stay longer, and so the four start their race with death to the desert's rim. At their first resting place, the wife and her sister go in search of water to replenish their supply. Left alone with the girl, the husband, in a vagary of weakness, makes advances to her. This is seen by the wife from a distance, and in the struggle which ensues, the man, who is a physical wreck, pays the penalty with his life. As the wife and sister stand over the lonely grave, they, wrongly suspecting the girl, are seized with a desire for vengeance, the perpetration of which is only averted by a singular intervention of fate.
Running Time: 62 mins Black & White
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Alyn Warren
A Chinese mandarin hopes to regain favor with the Emporer by betrothing her to him, but he doesn't know she's secretly married to the American consul and pregnant.
Running Time: 8 mins Black & White
Starring: Mabel Normand, Dell Henderson, Kate Bruce
Her mother-in-law strenuously objects to her extravagance, and so wifey has to resort to subtle means to get a set of furs that strikes her fancy. She gets the furs all right, but in scheming to get them home, plays her game right into mamma-in-law's hand. To tell more of the story would spoil the surprises pulled off in the comedy.
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Adolph Lestina, Carol Dempster, Frances Parks
Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.
Running Time: 27 mins Black & White
Starring: Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Monty Banks
Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Ford Sterling, Mabel Normand, Charles Inslee
Running Time: 27 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.
Running Time: 87 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Harold Goodwin, Allan Sears
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
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Starring: Robert Warwick, Gail Kane, Alec B. Francis
Running Time: 56 mins Black & White
Starring: Tom Mix, Bessie Eyton, Frank Campeau
Colonel William Ryan, a ranch owner, in the Lone Star State, has named his only daughter Texas. Jack Parker, a devil-may-care cowpuncher, loves only two things, one is his horse and the other a photograph of Texas Ryan, whom he has never seen. He has named his horse "Dream Girl" after the girl of the photograph. After several years in an eastern college, Texas return home. Her father is happy and she is idolized by the cowboys of the ranch. Antonio Moreno is the head of a band of cattle rustlers. His lieutenant, "Dice" McAllister, a former road agent, uses his office as marshal as a cloak for unlawful deeds. Moreno and McAllister have long plotted to secure Ryan's wealth, and Moreno resolves to pay court to the girl. In the "Last Chance" saloon and dance hall a shooting scrape occurs. Jack Parker, enemy of McAllister, is charged as being an accessory. Harsh words are exchanged and Parker overcomes McAllister in a desperate conflict, and then crosses the border until the disturbance blows over. He returns on the Fourth of July and proceeds to celebrate. Colonel Ryan and Texas meet him and Parker learns she is the girl of the photograph. Moreno and his gang, under pretense of friendship, visit the Ryan ranch during the round-up, and when Texas spurns the Mexican's offer of marriage, he threatens her, and is driven from the ranch. When Texas and her girlfriend, Marion Smith, are riding in the hills, they are seen by Moreno's men. Texas is pursued and made prisoner. Marion brings the news to Colonel Ryan. Jack Parker resolves to free the girl. By an offer of money, he persuades the bandits to free her. Moreno and McAllister rustle the Ryan cattle and are discovered by Parker. During a night of rain and wind he slips into the camp of the outlaws, takes Moreno a prisoner, and leaves a note telling McAllister of what he has done. When McAllister finds the note in the morning, he decides to leave the country. Moreno later makes his escape. Parker decides to go on the trail. He bids Texas farewell, telling her he is not worthy of her. As time passes Texas comes to understand that she loves the cowpuncher. Moreno continues his lawlessness. After a desperate conflict Parker is taken prisoner. Word is brought to Texas Ryan that he is to be shot that evening. The girl tells her father she believes the cattle thieves will spare Jack's life for money and starts in an automobile on her race with death. Moreno gloats over the revenge. The executioner awaits the order to fire. Just as Moreno is about to give the order, Texas arrives. The cupidity of the Mexican bandits is aroused by the gold, and the cowpuncher is freed and takes Texas into his arms.
Running Time: 19 mins Black & White
Starring: Norma Talmadge, Mary Maurice, Marie Weirman
Mary, a poor but well-born girl, is invited to join a sorority club in the high school she attends, while her chum, Sophie, is ignored. Mary is flattered by the attention, accepts the invitation and gradually drifts away from her former friends. The spirit of snobbishness and unrest enters her life, and in her attempt to keep up with her richer companions, who are purse-proud and pretentious, she changes from a lovable girl into a discontented one. A sorority dance is arranged and Mary, unable to pay the assessment for the dance, steals the amount from one of the members of the club, in order to keep up with her new associates. The other members are so self-centered they do not realize the influence of their false pretenses and mistaken ideas of true worth. They are entirely unaware of the demoralizing effects of their example. Having taken the first step, Mary is still further tempted when she finds a new gown for the dance to be an impossibility. While shopping with a club member, she steals a pair of stockings and a roll of silk. A house detective sees her commit the theft, taking the two terrified girls into the manager's office. The silent partner of the firm is the father of the girl from whom Mary has first stolen. He investigates Mary's actions by gentle questions. She breaks down and sobbingly confesses that she did not wish the girls of the sorority to be ashamed of her. The father understands the situation. He takes the two girls with him to the sorority rooms, where he explains Mary's temptations and their false notions of the real standards of life, also explaining that character is the only criterion of personal superiority. The girls are convinced of their error, forgive Mary and dissolve the sorority. Mary once more becomes a normal sweet girl with wholesome surroundings.
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Starring: Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Henry B. Walthall, Grace Henderson, Dorothy West
Charles Randolph was bombastic and haughty, but with no real courage, and what was worse, a heavy drinker. His sister Agnes and mother were the only survivors of an old and distinguished fighting family. Agnes is high-spirited and lovable, and at the beginning of the Civil War, Charles is carried away by the enthusiasm, and urged by Agnes, procures a commission in the Confederate service and is assigned to General Lee's staff. Members of the same regiment are Lieutenants Wheeler and Carter, both good-natured rivals for the hand of Agnes. The story opens with the departure of the boys with the regiment for General Lee's headquarters, taking with them a large Confederate flag which Agnes has just completed. In Lee's tent Charles is given sealed dispatched and launched on a most important mission. It is a perilous undertaking, and during the course of the journey he becomes panic-stricken with fear, and drinks heavily, hoping to revive his waning courage. Completely overcome, he dashed madly toward his own house, where he seeks to hide himself. Here he becomes very drunk, and Agnes and the mother are horrified at the awful disgrace that threatens the family name. With sudden impulse Agnes decides to don Charles' uniform and proceed on the mission in his stead, to return in time that he, when sober, may go back to report to General Lee the result. She make the perilous journey and delivers the dispatch, but on the return she is caught in the battle's maelstrom with her horse shot down. She becomes imbued with the spirit of the conflict and, rushing into the very vortex, fights as Charles never could have. In the retreat the flag is in danger of capture, and Agnes leaping over the breastworks, seizes it only to be shot down by a shell. No one has suspected that the gallant soldier was other than Charles, and news is sent to the Randolph homestead of his death. At the reception of this information, Charles realizes what a contemptible dog he is, and the mother, fully appreciating the awful disgrace the exposition of it would be, commands that Charles remain forever where he is for the good of the family name, that the world may not know his sister died protecting a coward. The shutters are closed and barred, and all is mysterious and gloomy. At the close of the war the young suitors return, but are told that Agnes is not to be seen, being crazed from grief over her brother's death. Year and year it continues the same. The constant suitors, growing old, leave their floral tributes at the door. Inside the darkened rooms Charles goes through the bitter years from youth to old age paying the price of his cowardice until death mercifully releases him.
Running Time: 41 mins Black & White
Starring: Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Ann Little
The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.
Running Time: 78 mins Black & White
Starring: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke
Pietro "Beppo" Donnetti, a happy young gondolier, is in love with Annette Ancello, daughter of Trudo Ancello. Roberto Gallia, a wealthy merchant, is also in love with her. Roberto is a dilapidated old dandy at whom Annette laughs. Her father, however, gives Pietro a year to make good and furnish Annette with a home and, if at the end of the year, he can not do it, Annette's hand is to be given to Roberto. The latter, hoping to get rid of Beppo, tells him of all the advantages and wonders in America for an immigrant, and, fired with ambition, Beppo sails for America, There, he opens a bootblack stand and, within a year, is able to send for Annette. They marry and a year late a son is born and is the joy of Beppo's life. But during an intense heat wave that hits New York City, the child is taken ill and the doctor says it must have pasteurized milk, or die. Beppo's scant funds are soon used up and, while on the way to the milk station, he is robbed of his few nickels. He puts up a fight, is arrested and taken to jail. He appeals to Corrigan, the local ward boss and tells him he must get home with the mild or his baby son will die. He is met with derision and laughter and sentenced to five days in jail. When he gets out the son has died. Beppo vows revenge upon Corrigan, and a situation, involving Corrigan's own son arises, and Beppo sets out to take his vengeance.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Hank Mann, Madge Kirby, Merta Sterling
A mild-mannered, well-meaning but bumbling janitor gets unwittingly involved in a battle between two opposing political groups, with each side trying to use him to destroy the other, and the secret police--who have already thrown him out of their office when he worked there--watching all of them.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Thomas O'Connor
A boy from Ireland comes to America and makes good, but he doesn't forget the poverty he left behind. He returns to rescue his sweetheart just as her family is about to be evicted from their land.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin
A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
Running Time: 88 mins Black & White
Starring: Fernanda Negri Pouget, Eugenia Tettoni Fior, Ubaldo Stefani
Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Blanche Sweet, Edwin August, Mae Marsh
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Sutton
This short 1915 Edison films stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassination by Booth.
Running Time: 80 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Robert Alexander, George G. McMurtry, Charles W. Whittlesey
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.
Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Charles West, Mabel Normand
The little mender is betrothed to Tom, the fisherman, rejecting the suits of all the others. Tom, however, is weak, and finds that his old infatuation for Grace still haunts him. Grace has sacrificed all for her love for Tom, and when she sees him courting the little mender, she reminds him of his duty towards her. He realizes the strength of this and hints to the little mender that he is not worthy of her. Grace's brother learns of her dishonor and attempts vengeance. A quarrel ensues between the men, and the little mender, ignorant of the cause, attempts to save her sweetheart from the anger of the brother, and her tender appeal turns him for the time from his purpose. The little mender learns, however, the cause and the truth of the other girl's sorrow, and, smothering her own feelings, awakens Tom to his sense of duty, while she returns to mend the nets, solaced by her memories and her old father.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy
This picture is intended to portray the evil of the gangster in New York. The first scene shows New York's other side. The poor musician is engaged to be married to a young woman and leaves for another city to accept an engagement whereby to improve his condition monetarily.While he is away the little one is forced to work at sewing to support her invalid mother and herself. Later on, in going to deliver some of her work, she meets "Snapper Kid" who is the chief of one faction of the gangsters of Pig Alley in the slum quarters. There are two factions of these gangsters. Like the musketeers of old, they go about, each side alert that they will not be taken unawares by the other. About this time the little girl's mother dies and she finds herself alone, but the musician returns with replenished purse to become the protector of the little orphan. He meets the musketeers in Pig Alley and "Snapper Kid" relieves him of his wallet. Going to the girl, he vows to her that he will recover his stolen money at all hazard, and consequently leaves to make the rounds through the slums in the hope of apprehending the thief. In this new sorrow, a friend stops in to see the little lady and induces her to go with her to the ball, hoping thereby to cheer her a little. At the ball, the girl meets one of the gang, and he being a decent looking chap, she dances with him and accepts his invitation to drink a soft drink. This he drugs, and had it not been for "Snapper Kid" who sees this act from a distance, she would have drunk it, but the kid intervenes. This further riles the other faction of the gang, and fearing the "Big Boss" they go outside to settle the trouble. We show several scenes of their following each other with the hope of one taking the other by surprise. For a long time they are ever on the alert. Finally a gun fight ensues and in the struggle "Snapper Kid" rushes through one of the hallways in his endeavor to escape the police, and is met by the musician, who, before the kid realizes what he has done, recovers his wallet, making his way hurriedly back to the girl. The kid has no chance to recover his equilibrium, for the police are on his heels, and he rushes through the dark hallways until he finally comes to the apartment of the girl, just after the musician has reached there. The police trail him to this point, but as he had saved the girl from disaster the night of the ball, she, reasoning that one good turn deserves another, enables him to give an alibi to the officer which frees him.
Running Time: 25 mins Black & White
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Allan Sears
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with "Leaping Fishes", and the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the "fish blower" girl. Will Coke be able to free the girl ?
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Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Elmer Booth, Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes
Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straight and stay out of trouble, but his fellow ex-con has other ideas, and his plans wind up spelling trouble for both of them.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Before the revolution in France the nobility exercised a most despotic rule over the peasants, subjecting them to abject slavery. Not only did they suffer pecuniary oppression, but their humble households were invaded and defiled by the noble profligates. Henri Provost, a perfumer, receives a call from his landlord in quest of some perfume. During his visit this nobleman is attracted by Henri's pretty young wife. Her beauty so enthralls him that he, during her husband's absence, exercises his presumed rights, and invites, or rather commands her to attend his house fete. Here he dresses her in finery and promises to make a great lady of her, so that when her husband, who finding whither she had gone, bursts into the palace, she denies him. The heartbroken perfumer at first would return to the palace and in vengeance murder both his wife and the nobleman, but the old priest stays him, by showing him the crucifix, the emblem of Christian charity and making him swear he would never kill them. Indicating that vengeance belonged to God. Henri takes this oath and lives up to it. Some time later the peasants chafing under aristocratic tyranny revolt, with the perfumer a leader. The revolutionists invade the home of the nobleman, the occupants of which flee in panic. The nobleman himself, with the perfumer's wife, who is still with him, make their way to her former home, which she imagines is deserted. The perfumer enters, and upon meeting the guilty pair, sees his chance to wreak vengeance. He is about to run them through when the old priest again appears and shows him the crucifix, reminding him of his oath. He then waves back the mob, who haven't seen the nobleman, with the exclamation, "This is my wife." The mob dismissed, he takes the couple to an inner room where they exchange their finery for peasant's attire. Thus they leave to take their chances of evading intemperate revolutionists who are parading outside, devastating everything and destroying everybody aristocratic. What a bitter lesson she has been taught. Her covetousness has brought her only shame, terror, poverty and isolation.
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Running Time: 136 mins Black & White
Starring: Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman
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.
Running Time: 81 mins Black & White
Starring: Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Raymond Russell
Ojo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr. Pipt, who has been stirring the powder of life for nine years. Ojo adds plenty of brains to Margolotte's Patchwork servant before she is brought to life with the powder. When Scraps does come to life, she accidentally knocks the liquid of petrifaction upon Unc Nunkie, Margolotte, and Danx (daughter Jesseva's boyfriend). So all go on separate journeys to find the ingredients to the antidote. (Of course Jesseva has Danx shrunken to take with her, which causes trouble with Jinjur.) Of course, no one ever told Ojo that some of the ingredients were illegal to obtain.
Running Time: 48 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Ray, Sylvia Breamer, Joseph J. Dowling
Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura.
Running Time: 65 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley
The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant's irresponsibility results in a crisis.
Running Time: 15 mins Black & White
Starring: Florence La Badie, Justus D. Barnes, William Russell
The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her.
Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: William S. Hart, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim
Outlaw leader "Draw" Egan, believed dead, turns up in the town of Yellow Dog. The townsfolk believe him to be William Blake, a strong and law-abiding man. They appoint him sheriff to rid the town of the hoodlums who have nearly taken over. He does so with dispatch, becoming a genuinely lawful and respected member of the town's society. But then Arizona Joe, one of Egan's old gang, shows up in Yellow Dog, threatening to expose Egan if he doesn't help his old comrade take over the town
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Running Time: 58 mins Black & White
Starring: Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Theodore Roberts
A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.
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Starring: Billy West, Oliver Hardy, Ethel Marie Burton
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Running Time: 50 mins Black & White
Starring: Lottie Lyell, Raymond Longford, Augustus Neville
In the south coast of England, a young woman, Margaret Catchpole (Lottie Lyell), is pursued by two men, the smuggler Will Laud (Raymond Longford) and the coastguard officer Lieutenant Barry (Augustus Neville). Laud is killed in a fight with coast guards and Margaret is sentenced to Botany Bay for horse stealing. She later marries Barry, who has since moved to Sydney, and becomes well-regarded for her hospital work.
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: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Edwin August, Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes
Little Nora is called the madcap of the village. She was not vicious, but merely mischievous, with her heart in the right place. Her madcap nature is not to be wondered at, as she was allowed to run wild, her mother being dead and her father a laborer. The school commissioners write to her father insisting that she be sent to school, and she would have been happy there if the scholars had not made her the butt of ridicule. This she strenuously resents and in her unhappy, lonesome condition, she listens to the flattery of a traveling street fakir, who would have succeeded in taking her away with him had not the school teacher, who saw in her a diamond in the rough, prevented it.
Running Time: 106 mins Black & White
Starring: Arthur Tauchert, Lottie Lyell, Gilbert Emery
A down-at-heal ex-convict undergoes an epiphany as he experiences the love of a good woman for the first time.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
An animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.
Running Time: 8 mins Black & White
Starring: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling
Action scenes of early automobile racing highlight this story of Papa's efforts to thwart Mabel's romantic infatuation with a race car driver.
Running Time: 18 mins Black & White
Starring: Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Joseph Callahan
On a sailing trip, sweethearts Bobby and Gloria arrive in a very sinister-looking India, where an evil rajah attempts to force Gloria into his harem.
Running Time: 13 mins Black & White
Starring: Harold Vosburgh, Warren Cook, Bessie Learn
Workers in a pottery factory labor in unhealthy, unventilated and dangerous conditions, but the plant's wealthy owner doesn't see any need to change things. It's not long before one of his workers falls ill to tuberculosis, and soon the owner learns the meaning of the old adage, "What goes around comes around".
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Running Time: 16 mins Black & White
Starring: Dr. Frederick Cook
Film made by Dr. Frederick Cook & Wilbert Melville to substantiate his Cook's claim as discoverer of the North Pole and to document his treatment by opponents.
Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Gladys Egan
A young married couple are living happily in the little fishing village and at the opening of the story the young husband is one the "Three fishers went sailing away to the West, away in the West as the sun went down. Each thought on the woman who loved him best, and the women stood watching them out of the town. For men must work and women must weep, and there's little to earn and many to keep. Though the harbor bar be moaning." As the days rolled by the "three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower...They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower," but no sign of their husband's return could be seen. Ah! Little did they know that on a distant shore "Three fishers lay out on the shining sands, in the morning gleam as the tide went down." When the rescue party brings the fishers in they find life in one, the young husband. With the tender care of the folk in this distant land he regains his health, but his memory is a blank. All efforts to recall the past prove futile. Meanwhile, the poor wife, with her baby, sits gazing out to sea, still hopeful of his return, but in vain. The years roll by and her child grows into young womanhood to be courted by one of the young fishermen of the coast village, and it is upon the day that the young couple are preparing for their wedding that the long lost husband, having started out to sea once more lands on the shore of his native village. The familiar scenes restore his memory. It seems to him that it was only on the yesterday he left, and he rushes eagerly along the coast to meet his wife. There she stands, ever hopeful. At first they hardly recognize each other, time having wrought such a change, but enwrapped in each others' arms they realize fate's injunction: "For men must work and women must weep, and the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, and good-bye to the bar and its moaning." The scenic beauty of the subject is exceptional, being taken at a fishing village of Southern California.
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Running Time: 33 mins Black & White
Starring: Jack Gavin, Ruby Butler, H.A. Forsyth
Frederick Ward is accused of cattle theft and sent to Cockatoo island for seven years. After he escapes he finds that his fiancée has died of grief. For revenge he undertakes a life of crime.
Running Time: 59 mins Black & White
Starring: Jack Pickford, George Hackathorne, Alice Marvin
Tom Sawyer, a young Missouri lad, finds fun and adventure with his pals Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn, running away to hide out on Jackson's Island and pretending to be Mississippi River pirates. When Tom is believed dead by his grieving Aunt Polly, he sneaks back to town to attend his own funeral.
Running Time: 55 mins Black & White
Starring: Asta Nielsen, Augusta Blad, Frederik Jacobsen
Spoiled Ysabel marries a man of respectability but he later turns out to a criminal. Consequently, her mother breaks down, and on her deathbed, Ysabel wows to become an evangelist.
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Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Edna Foster
Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man's money, not realizing it's his girlfriend's father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness.
Running Time: 23 mins Black & White
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong
As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff. Meanwhile, a foreign agent arrives at the house in hopes of getting Col. Nutt's latest invention. The inventor throws him out, so the agent then employs a thug to get the formula. When police head to the Nutt home to start an investigation, a complicated fracas ensues.
Running Time: 10 mins Black & White
Starring: Max Linder, Delphine Renot, Jane Renouardt
An elegant dandy - he of suit, vest, tie, and top hat - ignores his wife at dinner in favor of his newspaper, so she tearfully leaves him and returns home to mother. He is ecstatic, dancing a jig at the prospect of new-found freedom, but after a series of disasters as he washes up the dishes, shops and cooks, makes his bed and tries to get a night's sleep, then looks unsuccessfully for his tie in the morning, he's at his wit's end and the place is in shambles. Will his better half return?
Running Time: 9 mins Black & White
Starring: John Bunny, Mabel Normand, Ralph Ince
Mr. Harding, a fussy old fellow, has a daughter; he also has a private secretary, an attractive young fellow, who falls in love with the daughter and gets his "walking papers." Later he employs a female secretary, who proves to be an old schoolmate of his daughter. She drives the old gentleman to desperation by using perfumery extravagantly on herself and everything else about his office; so he decides to get a secretary over sixty years of age. In the meantime, Ralph, the first secretary, disguises himself at Betty's suggestion as an old man and makes an application with the rest of the would-be secretaries. The apparent feeble and antique secretary at once starts to work, but his employer has no sooner turned his back when the ancient secretary becomes very spry and active in his attentions to Betty, and proves very strenuous in his embraces and kisses. Mr. Harding is apprehended of Ralph's identity, after pulling his false beard off, and all ends happily.
Running Time: 12 mins Black & White
Starring: Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles Kent, Florence Turner
An early silent version of Shakespeare's classic comedy of unrequited love and gender bending.
Running Time: 54 mins Black & White
Starring: Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, Hattie Delaro
A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth
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 as their scheme seems to have succeeded.
Running Time: 58 mins Black & White
Starring: Pauline Starke, Jack Curtis, Joe King
Kirby kills a man in self-defense and becomes a fugitive from the police.
Running Time: 90 mins Black & White
Starring: Frederick Warde, Boyd Marshall, Kathryn Adams
Dr. Primrose, the vicar of Wakefield, enjoys life with his wife and five children. His two daughters, Olivia and Sophia, are courted by two apparent gentlemen, Mr. Burchell and Squire Thornhill, who is Dr. Primrose's landlord. But when Mr. Burchell is supposed to have seduced and abandoned Olivia, the Primrose family finds its fortunes dwindling in every sense. It is learned that Burchell is innocent of the seduction, and the real villain is unmasked, but not before Primrose and his family come very near disaster.
Running Time: 17 mins Black & White
Starring: W. Chrystie Miller, Claire McDowell, Adolph Lestina
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 this scene, the old man cannot help feeling that a dog's lot is preferable to his. Weary and hungry he is driven to make a desperate attempt to obtain food by breaking into a butcher shop and stealing a basket of provisions. He is caught, however, by a policeman before he has gotten a block away and taken to the Night Court. Here, of course, his story is the oft-repeated one, and little credence placed in it, so he is put back in the pen. The judge, a kindly disposed man, fearing he might have made a mistake, sends the officer to investigate. The officer returns with the report that the old man has not exaggerated the case. The judge then releases the old fellow and sends the officer home with him with aid, financial, medical and material. But it is too late, for the poor woman's life had gone out during her husband's forced absence.
Running Time: 23 mins Black & White
Starring: Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Vivian Edwards
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walrus gets a letter from his insurance broker Mr. Cinder demanding a payment. Short on cash, Walrus decides to get his tenants' money now. Ambrose and his wife are in the middle of a domestic squabble when Walrus pays a visit, and his presence only makes things worse. Mr. Cinder visits Walrus himself, and he carelessly throws his cigarette into a trash can. After he leaves, the hotel catches on fire and the rest of the film is a thrilling five-minute race to pay off the insurance!
Running Time: 62 mins Black & White
Starring: Tyrone Power Sr., Mrs. Tyrone Power, Marie Walcamp
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community.
Running Time: 11 mins Black & White
Starring: Red Wing
A frantic child reports to the tribal chief that her father killed her mother. The tribe chases and captures the man, dragging him back for tribal justice.
Running Time: 35 mins Black & White
Starring: Henry King, Ruth Roland, Daniel Gilfether
Twelfth and last installment of the series "Who pays" ?, of which only this episode has arrived, written and interpreted by the future director Henry King. Bitter story of a case of labor injustice that ends with terrible consequences.
Running Time: 14 mins Black & White
Starring: William Collier Sr., Blanche Payson, Joseph Belmont
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
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Running Time: 27 mins Black & White
Starring: Claire Anderson, Joseph Belmont, Paddy McGuire
This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett's company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It's a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or flirting inappropriately with their nannies. Others take in a movie matinee, where the on-screen action is outpaced by the outrageous behavior of certain theater patrons. Marital strife between a restauranteur and his hoity wife contribute further to one chaotic afternoon whose ever-increasingly craziness culminates in much farcical gunplay, mistaken identity and general property damage.
Running Time: 20 mins Black & White
Starring: Asta Nielsen, Fred Immler, Senta Eichstaedt
Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice.