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poster Barnum's Trunk
Barnum's Trunk
(3.0/5)
4mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A magician and some assistants put up a series of posters of music hall acts in a frame. Then the magician brings each poster to life.
poster Rent Control
Rent Control
95mn - Romance, Comedy, Short
Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment.
poster The Slave Market
The Slave Market
3mn - Adventure
In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The…
poster His Picture in the Papers
His Picture in the Papers
(3.0/5)
62mn - Comedy
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor. Furthermore, the film brought him together with …
poster Hell's Hinges
Hell's Hinges
(3.4/5)
64mn - Romance, Western
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the mini…
poster Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
(2.8/5)
12mn - Comedy, Drama
Fulta Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of S…
poster Sounder
Sounder
(3.8/5)
105mn - Drama
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
poster Captured in Chinatown
Captured in Chinatown
54mn - Mystery, Crime
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
poster Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(3.2/5)
78mn - Drama, Comedy
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated …
poster Hysterical History
Hysterical History
7mn - Animation
An amusing look at American history, starting with Columbus' discovery of America, and touching on the formation of the original thirteen states, the Gold Rush, and several other important events. The car…
poster My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This 1926 Fleischer Song Car-Tune encouraged movie going audiences to follow the bouncing ball, or racist caricature, and join in on a minstrel classic. In this way, the short joined sentimentality, a sen…
poster Seeing the World
Seeing the World
20mn - Comedy
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, Lon…
poster Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates
79mn - Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
poster The Diabolic Tenant
The Diabolic Tenant
7mn - Fantasy, Comedy
A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
poster By Right of Birth
By Right of Birth
4mn - Drama
Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.
poster Africa Screams
Africa Screams
(3/5)
79mn - Comedy
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of…
poster Newark Athlete
Newark Athlete
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 Ring Up the Curtain
Ring Up the Curtain
12mn - Comedy
Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.
poster Something Good — Negro Kiss
Something Good — Negro Kiss
1mn - Romance
Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen.
poster Three's a Crowd
Three's a Crowd
(3.1/5)
60mn - Comedy
Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his te…
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