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poster The Mystic Swing
The Mystic Swing
1mn - Fantasy
The professor shows his power to Mephisto by mysteriously placing a young lady in a swing. Mephisto then shows his power by making the young lady disappear from the swing, to the surprise of the professor…
poster Stick Around
Stick Around
24mn - Comedy
A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the as…
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 A Dozen Socks
A Dozen Socks
(3.1/5)
8mn - Comedy
A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.
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 The Portrait of Captain Grogg
The Portrait of Captain Grogg
(3.3/5)
7mn - Animation
An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait
poster The Amazing Mr. X
The Amazing Mr. X
(3.2/5)
68mn - Thriller, Horror
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. Af…
poster The Woes of Roller Skaters
The Woes of Roller Skaters
7mn - Comedy
A group of people take roller skating too far.
poster Dog Factory
Dog Factory
4mn - Comedy
A brief vaudeville-style demonstration of a "Dog Transformator," a machine that instantly turns dogs into sausages, and amazingly, sausages back into dogs.
poster Rhythm 21
Rhythm 21
(2.8/5)
3mn - Animation
Abstract animated short film. Grey and white squares change size and shape on a black background.
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 A Date to Skate
A Date to Skate
(3.3/5)
7mn - Animation, Comedy
Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control.
poster The Frozen North
The Frozen North
17mn - Comedy, Western
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he think…
poster Sex Madness
Sex Madness
57mn - Drama
A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but prov…
poster Rogues' Gallery
Rogues' Gallery
60mn - Mystery, Thriller
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…
poster Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
(2.8/5)
5mn - Animation, Comedy
Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.
poster Men Boxing
Men Boxing
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 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.
poster The Shriek of Araby
The Shriek of Araby
38mn - Comedy, Action
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
poster X's & O's
X's & O's
93mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodra…
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