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poster Rips and Rushes
Rips and Rushes
14mn - Comedy
While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Au…
poster Katsudō Shashin
Katsudō Shashin
1mn - Animation, Family
A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".
poster The Barometer of Fidelity
The Barometer of Fidelity
15mn - Comedy
This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.
poster The Servant Girl's Legacy
The Servant Girl's Legacy
9mn - Comedy
A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another tel…
poster Départ en voiture
Départ en voiture
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Three women get in a horse-drawn carriage, as servants load luggage on the roof, before it pulls away.
poster Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat
Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat
1mn - Animation
This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.
poster An Eastern Westerner
An Eastern Westerner
28mn - Comedy, Western
A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Pi…
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 The Gibson Goddess
The Gibson Goddess
10mn - Comedy
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limb…
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 Bully Boy
Bully Boy
6mn - Animation
Lightning sketch propaganda stirs outrage about Reims bombing, and features a British bulldog eating the German sausage.
poster The Imperceptible Transmutations
The Imperceptible Transmutations
2mn -
This shows a prince entering upon the stage of the King's private theatre. He is about to do a few mystifying tricks for the amusement of the court.
poster A Free Ride
A Free Ride
(2.6/5)
9mn - Comedy, Romance
Reportedly the earliest extant American pornographic film, A Free Ride depicts a motorist who picks up two women from the roadside and later engages in several sex acts with them.
poster The Kiss
The Kiss
(2.9/5)
1mn - Drama, Romance
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.
poster The Gold Obsession
The Gold Obsession
7mn - Fantasy, Comedy
An artist is painting the portrait of a young woman dressed in a country costume in his attic studio. The landlord demands the rent, but the artist has no money. The model tries to comfort him, but he thr…
poster A Pair of Tights
A Pair of Tights
(3.8/5)
20mn - Comedy
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 Mother's Baby Boy
Mother's Baby Boy
4mn - Comedy, Romance
Percival is a spoiled mama's boy. When two toughs make time with his girlfriend he sends a telegram to his mother for help.
poster A Society Sensation
A Society Sensation
(2.8/5)
25mn - Drama, Comedy
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Titl…
poster The Slave Market
The Slave Market
3mn - Adventure
In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The…
poster The Delicious Little Devil
The Delicious Little Devil
(3.1/5)
77mn - Comedy, Drama
A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the famil…
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