Films and TV Shows from the 1920s

poster Seeing the World
Seeing the World
20mn - Comedy
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, Lon…
poster Collars and Cuffs
Collars and Cuffs
11mn - Comedy
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
poster When Knights Were Cold
When Knights Were Cold
20mn - Comedy
Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type character in a medieval walled town. He's chased by an army of knights, but both he and his pursuers ride …
poster The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth
10mn - Comedy
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who…
poster The High Sign
The High Sign
21mn - Crime, Comedy
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daugh…
poster It's a Gift
It's a Gift
12mn - Comedy
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives i…
poster The Fourth Alarm
The Fourth Alarm
20mn - Comedy
The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
poster The Light in the Dark
The Light in the Dark
63mn - Drama, Crime
A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief is told by the girl of a goblet, that could be the Holy…
poster The Sun Down Limited
The Sun Down Limited
26mn - Family, Comedy
The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with Toughie.
poster What's the World Coming To?
What's the World Coming To?
21mn - Comedy
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Ka…
poster Married to Order
Married to Order
16mn - Comedy
Boy meets girl. Father hates boy. Girl dresses up as her brother to get out of the house to elope but the near-sighted father mistakes her for the twin brother and all chaos follows.
poster Baby Brother
Baby Brother
20mn - Comedy
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farin…
poster Back Stage
Back Stage
20mn - Family, Comedy
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
poster Big Business
Big Business
25mn - Comedy
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Moha…
poster The Shriek of Araby
The Shriek of Araby
38mn - Comedy, Action
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
poster The Penwiper
The Penwiper
4mn - Animation
Mud animation by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. From the "Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff" series.
poster Never the Dames Shall Meet
Never the Dames Shall Meet
20mn - Comedy
Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.
poster A Blonde's Revenge
A Blonde's Revenge
20mn - Comedy
Turpin plays a candidate who poses as the worker's friend but spends hi time buttering up wealthy women and seizing upn any opportunity to womanise.
poster The Pride of Pikeville
The Pride of Pikeville
21mn - Comedy
Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turpin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.
poster Fight Night
Fight Night
9mn - Comedy
While somewhat happily married, Walter Moore's eyes do stray from time to time, especially when Tessie McNab is within his eye-sight range. But while trying to just be helpful to a damsel-in-distress, Wal…