Rags

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poster Trapeze Disrobing Act
Trapeze Disrobing Act
2mn - Comedy
The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe, and here the fun commences. As she removes her garments …
poster Run 'Em Ragged
Run 'Em Ragged
14mn - Comedy
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sop…
poster Raggedy Rose
Raggedy Rose
(3.4/5)
56mn - Comedy
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
poster Washerwomen on the River
Washerwomen on the River
1mn - Documentary
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
poster Going to Bed Under Difficulties
Going to Bed Under Difficulties
(3.4/5)
2mn - Comedy
A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.
poster Runt
Runt
(3.1/5)
95mn - Drama
Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.
poster Unusual Cooking
Unusual Cooking
3mn - Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After …
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 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 A Child of the Ghetto
A Child of the Ghetto
16mn - Drama
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees …
poster Children Digging for Clams
Children Digging for Clams
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Children dig for clams on the beach
poster Hooded Angels
Hooded Angels
102mn - Action, Drama, Western
A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.
poster Uncle Josh's Nightmare
Uncle Josh's Nightmare
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy, Horror
Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for i…
poster Suds
Suds
75mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that…
poster Nero and Agrippina
Nero and Agrippina
(2.8/5)
18mn - History
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
poster Indochina: Children Gathering Coins Scattered by Western Women
Indochina: Children Gathering Coins Scattered by Western Women
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Vietnamese children collect coins that are thrown them by two aristocratic ladies.
poster Stop Thief!
Stop Thief!
2mn - Crime, Comedy
A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…
poster The Abyss
The Abyss
(3.2/5)
38mn - Drama
Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling circus stops in the village, Magda leaves the meek Knud for the dashing…
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 Mud and Sand
Mud and Sand
40mn - Comedy, Adventure
Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years later, he …
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