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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 Another Job for the Undertaker
Another Job for the Undertaker
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…
poster The Champion
The Champion
31mn - Comedy
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts …
poster The Devil
The Devil
10mn - Comedy
Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
poster The Mechanical Man
The Mechanical Man
(3.0/5)
80mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine. The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however…
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 The Charmer
The Charmer
4mn - Fantasy
A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.
poster Smith's Pony
Smith's Pony
20mn - Comedy
The Smith's visit San Francisco to attend a horse show only to have their precocious daughter cause some minor comical mishaps and their over-sized canine refusing to obey commands.
poster The Dancing Pig
The Dancing Pig
4mn - Comedy
A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.
poster Le cigare introuvable
Le cigare introuvable
1mn - Comedy
Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.
poster The Enchanted Sedan Chair
The Enchanted Sedan Chair
3mn - Fantasy
A fine magician of the Royal Court materialises an elegant attire from a transparent glass container, and then, a refined dandy appears, as an ornate palanquin is summoned. Now, what does the illusionist …
poster The Clown and His Donkey
The Clown and His Donkey
3mn - Animation, Comedy
A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.
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 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 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 Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
9mn - Comedy
Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on…
poster The Man with Wax Faces
The Man with Wax Faces
11mn - Horror, Thriller
A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.
poster It's a Greek Life
It's a Greek Life
(2.6/5)
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 The Curtain Pole
The Curtain Pole
10mn - Comedy
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumu…
poster Kiri-Kis
Kiri-Kis
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
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