Childcraft make and do

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows childcraft make and do

poster Mabel’s Wilful Way
Mabel’s Wilful Way
11mn - Comedy
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
poster Babies Rolling Eggs
Babies Rolling Eggs
1mn - Documentary
The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House Gates to-day during the hours set apart for the great Nat…
poster The Bargain Hunt
The Bargain Hunt
11mn - Comedy
The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
poster The First Circus
The First Circus
(2.7/5)
6mn - Animation, Comedy
This early animated short depicts a Stone Age-era circus.
poster Lucretia
Lucretia
(3.4/5)
10mn - Animation
In an animated film sprinkled with magic and stardust, an impish little girl from Hades turns common assumptions topsy turvy. Lucretia is very curious about Christmas, a subject she has never heard spoken…
poster The Magician and the Imp
The Magician and the Imp
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy
The magician appears upon the stage with an imp as his assistant. The imp holds a piece of cloth in his hand. At the command of the magician the cloth is suddenly transformed into a beautiful girl, clad i…
poster Wonderful Mirrors
Wonderful Mirrors
7mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A talented youth has compounded a wonderful fluid, a little of which he applies to the mirror in his room, and when he looks into it his image comes to life and comes out of the frame and imitates his eve…
poster Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell
(3.1/5)
6mn - Animation
Herman the mouse installs a bell on a cat to help his mice friends.
poster Onesime, Clockmaker
Onesime, Clockmaker
(3.2/5)
8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.
poster Kino Eye
Kino Eye
(3.5/5)
78mn - Documentary
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand …
poster Bobby Bumps Starts for School
Bobby Bumps Starts for School
(3.0/5)
7mn - Animation
Mischievous schoolboy Bobby disobeys his teacher and swings on a dangerous giant school bell.
poster Kiri-Kis
Kiri-Kis
3mn - Comedy, Fantasy
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
poster The Mischance of a Photographer
The Mischance of a Photographer
3mn - Comedy
A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.
poster Children of Eve
Children of Eve
(3.1/5)
73mn - Drama, Crime
An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-…
poster KoKo's Earth Control
KoKo's Earth Control
(3.6/5)
8mn - Comedy, Animation
Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-contr…
poster Artistic Creation
Artistic Creation
1mn - Comedy
An artist draws the head of a pretty girl, takes the drawing off the paper and places it on a small table, turning the image into the head of a real woman. He then continuous drawing the lady, one body pa…
poster An Easter Lily
An Easter Lily
10mn -
The third in the series, An Easter "Lily" takes on upstairs/downstairs race relations with childhood candor. Following his family’s African American maid to the laundry, Sonny Jim befriends her daughter L…
poster Ko-Ko's Magic
Ko-Ko's Magic
9mn - Animation, Comedy
Ko-Ko the Clown's hijinks with a magic powder.
poster The Cry of the Children
The Cry of the Children
(3.1/5)
29mn - Drama
An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
poster The Penwiper
The Penwiper
4mn - Animation
Mud animation by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. From the "Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff" series.
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