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poster The Finish of Bridget McKeen

The Finish of Bridget McKeen

The cook has trouble lighting the stove, so she adds kerosene, with explosive results.

poster Fiery Fireman

Fiery Fireman

6mn - Comedy, Animation

Oswald and his faithful horse rush to a blazing apartment area to rescue troubled residents.

poster The Firefall

The Firefall

poster Police Chasing Scorching Auto

Police Chasing Scorching Auto

3mn - Action, Crime

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once that film had been edited to fit a standard 1,000 foot …

poster Life of an American Fireman

Life of an American Fireman

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect …

poster Jimmy Pulls The Trigger

Jimmy Pulls The Trigger

A short from Feuillade's Bébé series

poster What's Your Hurry?

What's Your Hurry?

Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry sees Papa walk in with a shotgun he misunderstands and de…

poster 200 MPH

200 MPH

92mn - Action, Thriller

After his older brother is killed in an illegal street race, a grief-stricken novice racer enters the dangerous underground racing world to seek revenge against the ruthless drug dealer responsible.

poster Work

Work

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 Cohen’s Fire Sale

Cohen’s Fire Sale

13mn - Comedy, Crime

A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.

poster Rips and Rushes

Rips and Rushes

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Au…

poster Madame Mystery

Madame Mystery

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite w…

poster Rogues' Gallery

Rogues' Gallery

60mn - Mystery, Thriller

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…

poster Hotshot

Hotshot

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

poster The Bum's Rush

The Bum's Rush

poster Mr. Flip

Mr. Flip

Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.

poster Fire!

Fire!

5mn - Action, Drama

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awa…

poster A Railway Collision

A Railway Collision

The scene is a railroad track on the side of a steep mountain, with a tunnel in the background, toward which a train is running at a high rate of speed. At this instant the audience is appalled at the sig…

poster Penrod and Sam

Penrod and Sam

84mn - Comedy, Drama

poster Great Guns

Great Guns

7mn - Animation, Comedy, War

Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend i…

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