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poster It's a Gift
It's a Gift
12mn - Comedy
A group of oil magnates are trying to think of new ways to attract business. One of them suggests that they contact the inventor Pollard, who has devised a new gasoline substitute. Pollard himself lives i…
poster Dressed to Kill
Dressed to Kill
(3/5)
72mn - Crime, Mystery
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and W…
poster Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete
1mn - Documentary
Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
poster Smith's Picnic
Smith's Picnic
17mn -
The accident-prone Smith family (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach in this Mack Sennett comedy directed by Alf Goulding. There they spoil a picnic held by "The Optimist's'…
poster Kid Speed
Kid Speed
18mn - Comedy, Romance, Action
Avery DuPoys is a wealthy businessman, organising a race. He meets one of the competitors of the race, who is in love with DuPoys's daughter. Another competitor crashes into the action, who is also in lov…
poster The Battle of the Century
The Battle of the Century
19mn - Comedy
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
poster Getting Evidence
Getting Evidence
14mn - Comedy
A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the detective to produce photographic evidence. The detecti…
poster Wandering Papas
Wandering Papas
20mn - Comedy
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into cont…
poster KoKo's Earth Control
KoKo's Earth Control
(3.6/5)
8mn - Comedy, Animation
Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-contr…
poster Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
18mn - Comedy
An eccentric inventor has thought of a way that automobiles can run on radio waves, without gasoline. His plans put him in conflict with the owner of an oil company, who is also pursuing the inventor's da…
poster Just Pals
Just Pals
50mn - Drama, Western
Bim (Buck Jones) seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill (George Stone) under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bil…
poster Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III
Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III
(3.2/5)
5mn - Documentary
This two-color (green-blue and red) film was produced as a demonstration reel at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, under the direction of Kodak scientist John Capstaff. It features leading actr…
poster Fatty's Magic Pants
Fatty's Magic Pants
12mn - Comedy
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
poster Accordion Player
Accordion Player
1mn - Documentary
The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the …
poster Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
(3/5)
67mn - Action, Adventure, Mystery
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.
poster Patterns
Patterns
(3.9/5)
83mn - Drama
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…
poster Perfect Day
Perfect Day
(3.6/5)
20mn - Comedy
Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, thei…
poster Kill or Cure
Kill or Cure
11mn -
Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-All: that name is the funniest joke in this movie, which ain't sayin' much. I should point out that this …
poster Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure
Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure
7mn - Animation, Comedy
Eveready Horton and his behemoth penis venture through the country in search of the penetrable.
poster Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1mn - Documentary
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
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