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poster Miniature Theatre

Miniature Theatre

5mn - Comedy, Animation

Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and be…

poster The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels

9mn - Comedy, Music

Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.

poster Exposé

Exposé

Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

poster Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary

Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary

98mn - Documentary

Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it longer than everyone else.

poster The Show

The Show

25mn - Comedy, Action

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.

poster William Kelly's War

William Kelly's War

When WW1 breaks out, farm boys, Billy (Josh Davis) and Jack Kelly (Mathew John Davis), along with their cousin, Paddy (Lachie Hume), sign up, and are shipped out to serve in Europe. With Billy a dead-eye …

poster Beauty's Worth

Beauty's Worth

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…

poster Study Hell

Study Hell

What starts as routine after-school detention becomes a nightmare when their supervising teacher, a troubled war veteran with PTSD, finally snaps under pressure. Drawing on his deadly military training, t…

poster Why That Actor Was Late

Why That Actor Was Late

An actor tries to get to a show on time. Many mishaps along the way.

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Hero

3mn - Animation, Fantasy

"Hero" is a short film directed by Daniel Martinez Lara and produced by Open Blender Studio. The film is a showcase for the upcoming Grease Pencil feature in Blender 2.8, which is a 2D animation tool with…

poster Stakeout

Stakeout

90mn - Crime, Drama

A young private investigator on the gritty streets of Los Angeles faces an impossible choice when he falls for the woman he's supposed to be surveilling for insurance fraud. With his sick mother's medical…

poster Bumping Into Broadway

Bumping Into Broadway

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…

poster Max's First Job

Max's First Job

Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max is summoned to Joinville studios. His first role is that of a husband who comes home late.

poster Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III

Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III

5mn - Documentary

This two-color (green-blue and red) film was produced as a demonstration reel at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, under the direction of Kodak scientist John Capstaff. It features leading actr…

poster The Woes of Roller Skaters

The Woes of Roller Skaters

A group of people take roller skating too far.

poster Silent Witnesses

Silent Witnesses

In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman …

poster An Artist's Dream

An Artist's Dream

1mn - Comedy, Fantasy

The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring their costumes. Mep…

poster Lambo

Lambo

100mn - Documentary

Aarron Lambert is a controversial man that provokes the system and inspires the public. A cinematic documentary following the struggles and successes of a voice that must be heard from childhood through t…

poster Life After Pi

Life After Pi

30mn - Documentary

“Life After Pi” is a short documentary about Rhythm & Hues Studios, the L.A. based Visual Effects company that won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking work on “Life of Pi”– just two weeks after de…

poster The Bewitched Trunk

The Bewitched Trunk

A medieval magician performs a magic show involving a long ornate trunk in which he makes his assistants appear, disappear, and transform into other people.

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