The Housing Shortage

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic(de)

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

How Animated Cartoons Are Made(en)

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

The Marathon(en)

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

Call for Mr. Caveman(en)

A giant cave man kidnaps beautiful Adorable from the cave clan and the man who rescues her can have her hand and a new suit of clothes.

Onésime, Trainer of Men and Horses(fr)

An early Gaumont short.

The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan(en)

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.

Andy's Stump Speech(en)

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

The Kid(en)

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Over the Back Fence(en)

Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do with each other. The young leads come up with a plan in this pleasant Edison comedy. (IMDb)

Pistols for Breakfast(en)

A 1919 Comedy short.

The Pickaninny(en)

The comical, classic movie of the big city misadventures of Little Casino.

Pep Up(en)

Cliff presents his girl with a poodle at a party. His jealous rival plants bugs on both the dog and Cliff.

What for?(fr)

Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock.

Silent Movie(en)

Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

Not Guilty!(en)

Puffy and his girlfriend want to get married by a judge at the courthouse. However they go to a wrong door and he's mistaken for a defendant in a murder trial.

Dead Souls(ru)

Seventeen(en)

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.

Miss Mend(ru)

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

Modern Times(en)

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Lyman H. Howe's Famous Ride on a Runaway Train(en)

A runaway train speeds down the track.