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poster The Exquisite Thief
The Exquisite Thief
(2.6/5)
10mn - Drama, Crime
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael…
poster The One-Man Band
The One-Man Band
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Music
A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal p…
poster The Four Musicians of Bremen
The Four Musicians of Bremen
7mn - Animation
Four animal musicians consisting of a Horse, Cat, Dog, & Rooster set out on their own quest to try to find some fame by playing their own music. Unfortunitly every where they go, trouble always occurs…
poster The Melomaniac
The Melomaniac
(3.4/5)
3mn - Comedy, Music
The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
poster The Ragtime Band
The Ragtime Band
10mn - Comedy
Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.
poster The Yawner
The Yawner
4mn - Comedy
A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…
poster Peeping Pete
Peeping Pete
7mn - Comedy
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behi…
poster My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This 1926 Fleischer Song Car-Tune encouraged movie going audiences to follow the bouncing ball, or racist caricature, and join in on a minstrel classic. In this way, the short joined sentimentality, a sen…
poster The Ballet Master's Dream
The Ballet Master's Dream
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…
poster Mr. Jones at the Ball
Mr. Jones at the Ball
8mn - Comedy
Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit…
poster The Texan
The Texan
60mn - Western
Tex Benton, riding across the country, sees a turtle, catches a jack rabbit and tests out the old fable of the tortoise and the hare; when the rabbit wins, Tex vows to model his behavior on that style. In…
poster Tango Tangles
Tango Tangles
(2.6/5)
10mn - Comedy
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
poster The Saphead
The Saphead
77mn - Drama, Comedy
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making …
poster Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.
poster Beau Brummel
Beau Brummel
(3.3/5)
127mn - Drama
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. …
poster The Merry Skeleton
The Merry Skeleton
(3.2/5)
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
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.
poster Hep Cat Symphony
Hep Cat Symphony
(3.1/5)
6mn - Animation
A jazzbo cat is playing jazz in his home when he is disturbed by the mouse orchestra hidden within his wall.
poster Lambo
Lambo
100mn - Documentary
Aarron Lambert is a controversial man that provokes the system and inspires the public. A cinematic documentary following the struggles and successes of a voice that must be heard from childhood through t…
poster Band Drill
Band Drill
1mn - Documentary
A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns around and directs the musicians as they take up their …
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