A lost silent short comedy.
A lost silent short comedy.
1921-03-09
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0.0Pete (Nick Stuart) and Bill (John Darrow) are childhood rivals who continue to feud in high school, especially when they both develop feelings for Eleanor Barrett (Sally Phipps). Their rivalry threatens to disrupt the school basketball team, but they eventually make amends.
In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick that she had magically brought to life. Despite this tragic event, not all is lost for Lolita, as she soon meets an unexpected new friend.
0.0Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing Peggy Swain (Clara Bow) and her dad (Frank Beal) off their neighboring ranch. When decent-minded Nichols demands that the agent cease harassing the farmers, the nasty villain blows up the nearby dam, flooding the valley.
A nighttime driver is haunted by the ghost of a raccoon she hits with her car.
Jimmy and the Deacon are rivals for the rich widow's hand, and the Deacon with his little Flivver has so far won out.
5.0A clerk in a failing antiques store gets a big idea on how to move the merchandise so that he can save the store and possibly win the girl.
4.0An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
5.0Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He would have procured some of the mysterious fluid compounded by an erudite scientist by which things animate and inanimate were rendered non est, for ten minutes at least, by simply spraying them with it. In an atomizer, he sends a quantity, accompanied by a letter, to his brother. In the hope of his putting it on the market. The brother regards it as a joke, and, while toying with the atomizer, accidentally sprays himself. Presto! he is gone, to the amazement of the messenger boy who has carried the package thither. The boy reads the letter, and at once sees the amount of fun he can get out of it, so he nips it.
A short animation of a comedic theatrical show featuring Hawaiian musicians and dancers.
First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because he spent a nickel for a ticket for a voting contest for the fairest girl in town, Pa's daughter, of course, then Theodore decided to settle Pa. He played at being a lady. Then Pa said he might not be as young as he used to be, but Ma came along. So Pa said all on the sly, "Go to it, Theodore."
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
0.0A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
4.0The opening scene is in a tailor's shop, showing the four assistants more or less in love with their employer's daughter. After some time, the tailor says he will give his daughter to the one who shows himself to be the cleverest. Some very amusing incidents follow. The various feats accomplished during the contest are clever examples of trick photography. (Moving Picture World)
6.3A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
When little Dot and little Tot hear about the Easter Eggs, the stork and the Easter Babies, they are very anxious to be the possessors of a little baby brother and sister.
This is an extraordinary novelty, telling the story of love, courtship and marriage, simply through the actions of the hands and feet, without displaying the features. Just imagine, if you can, the actions of the hands and feet alone thoroughly and perfectly telling the story of a young couple making love, becoming engaged, going through the "lovey-dovey" period of courtship, getting married, keeping house, and the demonstration of that ecstatic bliss of their first born to bless the little home and fill their lives with the wellspring of future hope and ambition.
2.2At the Canadian National Exhibition, a young boy gets separated from his parents and meets some celebrities.