Ethel wright

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poster The Roaring Road
The Roaring Road
(2.9/5)
58mn - Drama, Comedy
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his dau…
poster Young Sherlocks
Young Sherlocks
(3.3/5)
22mn - Comedy
The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
poster R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
(2.9/5)
13mn - Animation
Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.
poster The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
(3.3/5)
60mn - Drama
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confi…
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 Work
Work
29mn - Comedy
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. …
poster A Corner in Wheat
A Corner in Wheat
14mn - Drama
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the …
poster Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls
Santos Dumont Explaining His Air Ship to the Hon. C.S. Rolls
(3.1/5)
1mn - Documentary
A short documentary registering the meeting between two aviation pioneers: the Brazilian Santos Dumont and the Briton Charles Rolls. In it, Dumont presents his ideas for a future balloon, showing to Rolls…
poster The Fighting Coward
The Fighting Coward
(3.0/5)
66mn - Comedy
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men ki…
poster A Window on Washington Park
A Window on Washington Park
15mn - Drama
From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, he …
poster The Home Electrical
The Home Electrical
11mn -
A man is shown several of the latest electrical household appliances.
poster Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws
Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws
60mn - Western
Only fragments remain of this 6-reel docudrama
poster Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
(4/5)
84mn - Documentary
Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is t…
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 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 Parlez Vous Woo
Parlez Vous Woo
(3.2/5)
6mn - Animation
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the char…
poster The Pillar of Fire
The Pillar of Fire
1mn - Fantasy
A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…
poster Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat
Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat
1mn - Animation
This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.
poster Seven Keys to Baldpate
Seven Keys to Baldpate
(3/5)
65mn - Thriller, Mystery
A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so …
poster Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe
53mn - Adventure, Drama, Romance
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowen…
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