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poster Robo-Dog

Robo-Dog

88mn - Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy

When Tyler's beloved dog dies tragically, his inventor father Tom creates an extraordinary robotic replacement using spare parts and an advanced super battery. But when Tom's former boss Mr. Willis discov…

poster Bacon Grabbers

Bacon Grabbers

Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.

poster The Toybox

The Toybox

81mn - Horror, Thriller

A dysfunctional family's desert vacation turns into a fight for survival when their used RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere and they discover the vehicle harbors the malevolent spirit of a serial kil…

poster Time Chasers

Time Chasers

89mn - Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama

A physics teacher turns his small airplane into a time machine to help humanity, but when he sells the technology to a greedy corporation, he must race through time to prevent them from creating a dystopi…

poster Dog Factory

Dog Factory

A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.

poster Magic Art

Magic Art

6mn - Animation

An Aesop’s Fables Studio cartoon.

poster The Daily Dweebs

The Daily Dweebs

1mn - Animation, Comedy

The Daily Dweebs is a pilot episode of an animated series revolving around the pet Dixey and his shenanigans in 1950's American suburbia.

poster Taxi Dolls

Taxi Dolls

"Taxi Dolls" is about robots that are incredibly lifelike. One wanders off to a taxi and the inventor retrieves it. Due to a mix-up a real woman is mistaken for one of these weird automatons and hilarity …

poster The '?' Motorist

The '?' Motorist

3mn - Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

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 Barnum's Trunk

Barnum's Trunk

4mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.

poster The Retrievers

The Retrievers

Carefree electrician Tom Cathral is recruited by The Company, and is quickly offered a full-time promotion to join the Retrievers, an elite squad of crooked secret operatives. His refusal to kill botches …

poster Touch the Sound

Touch the Sound

99mn - Documentary, Music

A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf.

poster Algol: Tragedy of Power

Algol: Tragedy of Power

99mn - Sci-Fi, Drama

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

poster Wiretapper

Wiretapper

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 An Extraordinary Dislocation

An Extraordinary Dislocation

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A clown performs various feats of magic based on his ability to detach and reattach different parts of his body.

poster The Golden Beetle

The Golden Beetle

A magician is surprised when he attempts to transform a beetle.

poster The Hollywood Kid

The Hollywood Kid

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

poster The Marvellous Wreath

The Marvellous Wreath

A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.

poster Hadj Cheriff

Hadj Cheriff

Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand at the opening of the act. He then hurls the…

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