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poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie
Buncoed Stage Johnnie
2mn - Comedy
This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…
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 Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster Father Gets in the Game
Father Gets in the Game
10mn - Comedy
D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl.
poster Worries and Wobbles
Worries and Wobbles
13mn - Comedy
A man comes home drunk in this slapstick comedy.
poster Another Job for the Undertaker
Another Job for the Undertaker
1mn - Fantasy, Comedy
Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…
poster Wandering Papas
Wandering Papas
20mn - Comedy
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into cont…
poster The Room
The Room
99mn - Drama, Romance
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begi…
poster Man Alive!
Man Alive!
(2.7/5)
12mn - Animation
This Oscar-nominated documentary short is from the American Cancer Society. Ed ignores his car problems and then fixes it without using a good mechanic. He also ignores stomach problems. Will he go to a d…
poster Too Wise Wives
Too Wise Wives
(2.9/5)
80mn - Drama
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
poster When Do We Eat?
When Do We Eat?
(2.9/5)
86mn - Comedy
An old school dad is as tough on his sons as his father is on him. On this night, however, one of the boys slips dad a dose of special, hallucinogenic ecstasy in order "to give him a new perspective."
poster Mr. Flip
Mr. Flip
4mn - Comedy
Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
poster The Hobo
The Hobo
20mn - Comedy
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
poster The Yawner
The Yawner
4mn - Comedy
A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…
poster The World and the Woman
The World and the Woman
(3.1/5)
66mn - Drama
In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge…
poster Everyman's War
Everyman's War
(2.6/5)
104mn - Drama, War
No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no…
poster Lambo
Lambo
100mn - Documentary
Aarron Lambert is a controversial man that provokes the system and inspires the public. A cinematic documentary following the struggles and successes of a voice that must be heard from childhood through t…
poster William Kelly's War
William Kelly's War
(3.2/5)
94mn - War
When WW1 breaks out, farm boys, Billy (Josh Davis) and Jack Kelly (Mathew John Davis), along with their cousin, Paddy (Lachie Hume), sign up, and are shipped out to serve in Europe. With Billy a dead-eye …
poster Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
3mn - Comedy, Animation
A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. Pa is appalled at the latest fashionable dresses worn by the women in his household.
poster Early to Bed
Early to Bed
20mn - Comedy
Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally rebels and goes on a rampage, destroying Oliver's fancy furnishings.
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