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poster Meltdown: Days of Destruction
Meltdown: Days of Destruction
90mn - Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a reckless experiment to destroy an asteroid goes catastrophically wrong, Earth's orbit shifts dangerously closer to the sun, triggering rapid global heating and chaos as LAPD detective Tom Bracket m…
poster Kansas Saloon Smashers
Kansas Saloon Smashers
1mn - Comedy
A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him are polished plate glass mirrors. A comical Irishman ente…
poster Police Chasing Scorching Auto
Police Chasing Scorching Auto
3mn - Action, Crime
Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once that film had been edited to fit a standard 1,000 foot …
poster How to Stop a Motor Car
How to Stop a Motor Car
2mn - Comedy, Horror
A policeman is run over by an automobile
poster Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
(3.2/5)
103mn - Drama
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
poster Doomsday for Pests
Doomsday for Pests
15mn - Animation, Documentary
Facing mounting insect deaths, concerned bugs view a documentary film about Sherwin-Williams's lethal new PESTROY pesticide coating.
poster Automobile Accident
Automobile Accident
(3/5)
2mn - Comedy
A tramp is run over by a car and dismembered. Helpful passers-by reassemble him.
poster The Airship Destroyer
The Airship Destroyer
7mn - Drama, War, Sci-Fi
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
poster A Railway Collision
A Railway Collision
1mn - Drama
The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sig…
poster Big Business
Big Business
25mn - Comedy
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Moha…
poster Demolition of a Wall
Demolition of a Wall
1mn - Documentary
Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a pick. When the wa…
poster Sick Cylinders
Sick Cylinders
(2.9/5)
6mn - Animation
Oswald wants to take his girl Kitty for a ride, but constant mishaps such as a pesky pooch and falling boulders prevent the time from being the least bit enjoyable. In the end, Oswald loses his girl to an…
poster Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen
Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.
poster The Finish of Bridget McKeen
The Finish of Bridget McKeen
(2.7/5)
1mn - Comedy
The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.
poster The Diabolical Church Window
The Diabolical Church Window
7mn - Fantasy
Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by throwing pieces of clothing against a stain-glass church wi…
poster Geo-Disaster
Geo-Disaster
87mn - Action, Sci-Fi, Short
When a chunk of dark matter pierces through Earth, it triggers an unprecedented convergence of catastrophic disasters - a super volcano, mega earthquake, and massive tornado - all targeting Los Angeles si…
poster When Ambrose Dared Walrus
When Ambrose Dared Walrus
23mn - Comedy
Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walrus gets a letter from his insurance broker Mr. Cinder demanding a payment. Short on cash, Walrus decides…
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 Taken for a Ride
Taken for a Ride
(4/5)
52mn - Documentary
How the American auto industry engineered the demise of city public-transit systems.
poster 200 MPH
200 MPH
92mn - Action, Thriller
After his older brother is killed in an illegal street race, a grief-stricken novice racer enters the dangerous underground racing world to seek revenge against the ruthless drug dealer responsible.
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