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poster A Pair of Tights

A Pair of Tights

Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get …

poster A Spiritualist Photographer

A Spiritualist Photographer

A magician transforms a woman into a portrait of herself, then restores her to life.

poster Anything Once!

Anything Once!

ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …

poster The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess

The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

poster Messalina

Messalina

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The…

poster The Witch

The Witch

13mn - Family, Fantasy

A penniless troubadour consults witch Carabosse about his future, but offends her by paying with a bag of sand. He evades the witch's revenge, and saves the beautiful princess.

poster Little Angel

Little Angel

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “p…

poster Debbie Does Dallas

Debbie Does Dallas

Debbie Benton is the captain of her high school cheerleading squad, and has been accepted to try out for the Texas Cowgirls. Her parents disapprove, though, and refuse to pay the fare to Texas. In a bid t…

poster Mae West

Mae West

95mn - Drama, Short

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

poster Cinderella

Cinderella

15mn - Romance, Fantasy

Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.

poster The Vanishing Lady

The Vanishing Lady

Georges Méliès makes a woman disappear, then reappear.

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 The Magic Lantern

The Magic Lantern

Two impish clowns construct a magic lantern. They prop it up at an angle, and use it to project pictures onto a wall. When the picture show ends, they open up the lantern to reveal a group of dancing girl…

poster Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time

75mn - Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Princess of Illyria has spurned every suitor, when a gypsy loitering around the castle catches her eye. In actuality, he is the Prince of Denmark, there with his friend Kasper Røghat. The prince capti…

poster St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues

16mn - Music, Drama

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.

poster The Dream of an Opium Fiend

The Dream of an Opium Fiend

The opium fiend is seen in a den, puffing on this terrible narcotic. He then falls fast asleep and dreams that he is at home with his wife. He asks for something to drink and he is given wine, which he do…

Untamed

Raised wild in the South American jungle, oil heiress Bingo Dowling storms into Manhattan society determined to win the heart of Andy McAllister. But when his pride refuses her fortune, this untamed woman…

poster Fate's Turning

Fate's Turning

A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the…

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