Dorothy short

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poster The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

81mn - Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.

poster Miss Lulu Bett

Miss Lulu Bett

71mn - Comedy, Drama

Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Th…

poster Eleanor's Catch

Eleanor's Catch

ELEANOR'S CATCH is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this tw…

poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

poster The Roaring Road

The Roaring Road

58mn - Drama, Comedy

"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his dau…

poster The Career of Katherine Bush

The Career of Katherine Bush

poster The Helpful (?) Sisterhood

The Helpful (?) Sisterhood

Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

poster The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder spurns her lover to marry wealth, she learns the erro…

poster The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

13mn - Adventure, Fantasy

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

poster The Average Woman

The Average Woman

48mn - Drama, Romance

Reporter Jimmy Munroe is writing an article on "the average woman". He meets Sally Whipple in the library and chooses her as a likely subject, following her around to gather material for his article, and …

poster His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz

His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz

59mn - Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers pla…

poster Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

1mn - Documentary, Western

Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always a…

poster The Magic Cloak of Oz

The Magic Cloak of Oz

55mn - Fantasy, Adventure, Family

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.

poster Hotsy-Totsy

Hotsy-Totsy

Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.

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.

Dinty

72mn - Adventure, Comedy

Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.

poster Snow White

Snow White

Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarfs in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.

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 Behind Office Doors

Behind Office Doors

82mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.

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.

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