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poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie
Buncoed Stage Johnnie
2mn - Comedy
This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…
poster Cheese Mites
Cheese Mites
2mn - Comedy, Documentary
A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little …
poster The Musgrave Ritual
The Musgrave Ritual
(2.6/5)
18mn - Mystery, Crime
Reginald Musgrave’s maître d’hôtel has disappeared! Called to the rescue, Sherlock Holmes goes immediately to his friend, to inspect the premises. He finds a stolen jewel in the new maître d’hôtel’s jacke…
poster The Miser
The Miser
5mn - Drama
This Georges Melies film is only available in a five-minute fragment. The film starts off with a title card setting up the events. An elderly miser keep all of his money to himself and refuses to help peo…
poster A Film Johnnie
A Film Johnnie
(2.8/5)
12mn - Comedy
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
poster The Mermaid
The Mermaid
11mn - Comedy
John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and ph…
poster The Whispering Chorus
The Whispering Chorus
(3.4/5)
80mn - Drama
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, as…
poster Wonderful Mirrors
Wonderful Mirrors
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…
poster Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost
(2.8/5)
6mn - Drama, Fantasy
Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth and was filmed at Paul's Animatograph Works. It was relea…
poster Il biglietto da mille
Il biglietto da mille
16mn -
A film from the SocietĂ  Anonima Ambrosio company.
poster The Jolly Jilter
The Jolly Jilter
21mn - Comedy
Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
poster The Mysterious Retort
The Mysterious Retort
(2.9/5)
3mn - Fantasy, Horror
A wizard sleeps at a table in his well-appointed sitting room. From a drawer in the table, a snake appears.
poster Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim
6mn - Drama
Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim.
poster Tit for Tat
Tit for Tat
1mn - Comedy
Georges Melies the magician. Melies removes his own head, puts it in a glass box on a stool, then grows another one. Melies lights up a cigarette and blows smoke at his old head. The head gets payback by …
poster Hollow Triumph
Hollow Triumph
(3.4/5)
83mn - Thriller, Crime
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
poster No Mutton fer Nuttin'
No Mutton fer Nuttin'
(3.8/5)
8mn - Animation
Blackie the Lamb has two goals in life: to keep his nephews from listening to swing music, and to keep from getting caught by Wolfie the Wolf.
poster The Tramp and the Mattress Makers
The Tramp and the Mattress Makers
4mn - Comedy
A bum accidentally gets himself sewn up inside a mattress.
poster The Lilliputian Minuet
The Lilliputian Minuet
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in miniature.
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 A Jazzed Honeymoon
A Jazzed Honeymoon
9mn - Romance, Comedy
This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker.
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