Ethel wright

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poster A Clever Dummy
A Clever Dummy
19mn - Comedy
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
poster The Floor Below
The Floor Below
(3.2/5)
80mn - Comedy, Drama
Patricia O'Rourke, a good-natured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel , angers her co-worker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance. Her as…
poster The Iron Horse
The Iron Horse
(3.6/5)
150mn - Western
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they ar…
poster The Great Rights
The Great Rights
13mn - Animation
A cartoon explaining the American Bill of Rights and Constitution. A man imagines a "nightmare world" without these documents, where Orwellian thugs censor and arrest with impunity. When reminded of the B…
poster How Jones Lost His Roll
How Jones Lost His Roll
8mn - Comedy
Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to dinner, and serves him a large meal with plenty of wine. A…
poster His First Flame
His First Flame
(2.9/5)
45mn - Comedy
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that chang…
poster What Drink Did
What Drink Did
12mn - Drama
A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for …
poster Another Job for the Undertaker
Another Job for the Undertaker
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…
poster On the Fire
On the Fire
11mn - Comedy
Harold is a chef with certain devices for labor saving.
poster A Dull Razor
A Dull Razor
1mn - Comedy
This picture shows an old gentleman seated at his shaving table. The razor is evidently giving him a great deal of trouble...
poster Bend of the River
Bend of the River
(3.6/5)
91mn - Western
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
poster Wiretapper
Wiretapper
(2.9/5)
80mn -
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
poster The Bond
The Bond
(2.7/5)
11mn - Comedy
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating…
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster The World and the Woman
The World and the Woman
(3.1/5)
66mn - Drama
In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge…
poster Alice's Egg Plant
Alice's Egg Plant
(2.9/5)
9mn - Animation
Julius, the boss of Alice's chicken farm, has to find a way to deliver 5000 eggs to Sinkem and Soakem when the hens go on strike.
poster The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(2.9/5)
65mn - Mystery, Crime
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holme…
poster The Blot
The Blot
(3.4/5)
91mn - Drama
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the pr…
poster Easy Street
Easy Street
24mn - Comedy, Action
A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a passionate preacher and infatuated by the beauty of the congregation's pianist, in such a way that he tries…
poster The Copper Beeches
The Copper Beeches
(2.6/5)
25mn -
An adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story about a father trying to gain control of his daughter's inheritance does not include Watson.
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