Genres
592 films in this collection
Collection no. #143212 minGeorge Nichols
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A reluctant rescue earns a timid man a place on the police force. His new uniform impresses his girlfriend, but street fights and mischievous…
Collection no. #14332 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician dresses and transforms a mannequin, shifting between an inert figure and the appearance of life. The short presents the tricks directly as…
Collection no. #14341 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An artist positions a mannequin as a model for his painting. A visitor secretly takes its place, strikes him with a broom and returns the dummy…
Collection no. #14433 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Jupiter tries to summon the Muses, but his thunderbolts first need repairs. Once the arts begin competing for attention, he discovers that…
Collection no. #14443 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Figures in advertising posters come alive when the street is clear. Their flirtations and quarrels spill out of the billboard, until passing…
Collection no. #14452 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A magician enlarges playing cards and places them on a screen. Their royal figures step out into the room, and one of the apparent characters turns…
Collection no. #14482 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Wrestlers transform, flatten and dismantle one another without lasting injury. Bodies that should be broken repeatedly reassemble, turning a physical…
Collection no. #14502 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two music-hall clowns compete for control of the same stage. A mannequin that becomes a dancer offers one performer a spectacular trick, but his…
Collection no. #14512 minGeorges Méliès
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Young pranksters surround a sleeping drunk with fireworks taken from a shop. He wakes into an eruption of smoke and noise, unable to understand the…
Collection no. #145413 minGilbert Pratt
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two confidence men attempt to deceive a young woman and her father. Their intended victims prove harder to outwit than expected, turning the scheme…
Collection no. #145512 minHal Roach
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A young man wants to ask his sweetheart's father for permission to marry. Guards, trapdoors and office machinery repeatedly throw him out, forcing…
Collection no. #145611 minAlfred J. Goulding
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A modest young man falls for a wealthy woman whose father insists on a noble husband. A visiting card left inside rented evening clothes persuades…
Collection no. #145724 minAlfred J. Goulding
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A woman must live with a husband on an inherited plantation to secure the property. After a hurried marriage, the couple arrives to find ghostly…
Collection no. #14612 minWalter R. Booth
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A couple fleeing a policeman drives up a building and into the sky. Their car circles celestial bodies before returning to earth, where one more…
Collection no. #146335 minHal Roach
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A nanny takes a neglected child on a holiday trip to meet her childhood sweetheart. Finding her employer on the same train, she leaves the little…
Collection no. #146434 minFred C. Newmeyer
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A hotel bellboy impersonates an aristocrat at a wealthy family's gathering. His boasts about riding are tested by a difficult horse, and he soon…
Collection no. #14711 minRobert W. Paul
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A drunken husband comes home late and faces his irritated wife. She tries to reprimand him while getting him undressed and into bed, turning a…
Collection no. #147222 minFred Guiol
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two prisoners tunnel into the wrong room, then try escaping as painters. A stolen limousine and borrowed formal clothes lead to their being welcomed…