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poster The Exquisite Thief
The Exquisite Thief
(2.6/5)
10mn - Drama, Crime
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael…
poster The Double Incarnation of William Sheep
The Double Incarnation of William Sheep
(2.8/5)
15mn - Drama, Horror, Fantasy
A young gambler plays a game of chess against his creditor in order to clear his debts. Whilst playing he falls into a dream where he encounters a mysterious man who has the power to take his identity. Th…
poster The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth
10mn - Comedy
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who…
poster Among Those Present
Among Those Present
35mn - Comedy
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
poster The Price She Paid
The Price She Paid
61mn - Drama, Romance
Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemue…
poster The Waif and the Wizard
The Waif and the Wizard
2mn - Drama, Fantasy
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines …
poster The Amazing Mr. Williams
The Amazing Mr. Williams
(3.3/5)
80mn - Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he …
poster Some Shimmiers
Some Shimmiers
15mn - Comedy
The night that Eddie's girl announces her engagement to her friends she plans a slumming party, which does not meet with Eddie's approval but the others are so in favor of it he is compelled to go.
poster Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth
50mn - Drama, History
Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.
poster Me and Marlborough
Me and Marlborough
(3.0/5)
84mn - Comedy, Romance
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
poster Betrayed by a Handprint
Betrayed by a Handprint
8mn - Crime
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number …
poster Beau Brummel
Beau Brummel
(3.3/5)
127mn - Drama
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. …
poster The Whispering Chorus
The Whispering Chorus
(3.4/5)
80mn - Drama
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, as…
poster When Knighthood Was in Flower
When Knighthood Was in Flower
(3.3/5)
121mn - Drama, Romance
Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to th…
poster The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2
The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2
1mn - Thriller, Comedy
A dissipated man sits at a table with a decanter of whiskey and a glass beside him. A revolver is on the opposite side of the table. He pours a glass of whiskey and, with a despairing look, starts to drin…
poster Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
1mn - Documentary, Western
Annie Oakley was probably the most famous marksman/woman in the world when this short clip was produced in Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Barely five feet tall, Annie was always a…
poster The Diligent Orderly
The Diligent Orderly
4mn - Comedy
A comedic short about a clumsy valet.
poster The Whirl of Life
The Whirl of Life
(3.8/5)
60mn - Comedy
The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period
poster The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor
The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor
(2.9/5)
5mn - Drama, Action, Romance
A couple elopes; Her father pursues via motorcar.
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