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poster Rips and Rushes

Rips and Rushes

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 The Vain Parlor Maid

The Vain Parlor Maid

A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…

poster Return to Reason

Return to Reason

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

poster It's a Greek Life

It's a Greek Life

7mn - Animation

Mercury, the winged messenger, drops his sandals off with a centaur to be repaired. The centaur, who has coveted wings to the extent that he's used a couple ducks to help him fly, takes the sandals for a …

poster Elastic Transformation

Elastic Transformation

1mn - Fantasy, Comedy

A woman enters a room with a man. She creates a duplicate of him and changes his personality by throwing his clothes from one man to the next.

poster A Funny Shave

A Funny Shave

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

poster Lutteurs japonais

Lutteurs japonais

1mn - Documentary, Action

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

poster A Drunkard's Reformation

A Drunkard's Reformation

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life w…

poster Washerwomen on the River

Washerwomen on the River

1mn - Documentary

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

poster Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen

Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen

1mn - Documentary

Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.

poster The Flapper

The Flapper

A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.

poster Discipline

Discipline

103mn - Thriller

A series of murders are confounding the local police with its residue of mutilated corpses. It begins when a sadistic cult murders willing victims for entertainment. Professor Lafitte, a rich sophisticate…

poster After the Ball

After the Ball

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

poster A Life for a Life

A Life for a Life

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

poster Horse Shoeing

Horse Shoeing

1mn - Documentary, Drama

One of the pictures to be seen in the machine, for example, was that of a blacksmith shop in which two men were working, one shoeing a horse, the other heating iron at the forge. One would be seen to driv…

poster An Improvised Fireworks Display

An Improvised Fireworks Display

On a city street, a number of men take advantage of an old drunken bum.

poster A Hundred Tricks

A Hundred Tricks

poster The Round-Up

The Round-Up

70mn - Western, Comedy, Romance

A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the family of the prospector he stole from.

Bliss

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."

poster A Fool and His Money

A Fool and His Money

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York to enjoy a shopping spree, buying new clothes, jewelry a…

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