
18 Nov 1917

Nearly Married
Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.
Third release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies. Omar the dog, usually the most sedate member of the Smith family, has a starring role in this episode, digging up the garden and stealing the landlord's hat.

Jimmy Smith

Mabel Smith

Bubbles Smith

Mr. Crabtree - the Landlord

Mrs. Crabtree
Small Mover
Large Mover

The Cop

18 Nov 1917

Silent comedy, based on a 1913 stage play of the same title.

19 Dec 1915

A desperate man and two romantic rivals encounter one another at a Christmas party.

11 Jan 1925

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in Spain to find samples of a rare mineral. When the son gets to Spain, he runs afoul of the local police chief - who has a secret that he tries to keep the young man from discovering.

22 Feb 1920

Snub, the delivery man, and his assistant, Sunny, are returning from a delivery when they almost run over a lost woman. After she asks for directions, they accompany the woman to a dance school, where Snub is mistaken for the new professor.

27 Feb 1914

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.

06 Feb 1928

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
03 Nov 1911
Each time Mrs Babylas sees an animal, she just can't help herself bring it back home.

28 Nov 1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

04 Dec 1916

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

02 Oct 1916

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.
31 Dec 2007
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.
05 Jan 1929
Anita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again. This film survives only in very fragmentary form.

05 Feb 1936

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..

06 Dec 2023

A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?

01 Jan 1914

Out of the three-part burlesque, the only surviving one is the one called Pufi would buy a pair of shoes, with Hungarian inserts. The film is shot on a real-life location, in a Budapest shoe shop, and it portrays the mutual efforts of a puny sales assistant and Pufi, the bladder-of-lard customer, to find him a suitable pair of shoes. The content of the other two parts is not known.

17 Apr 1924

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

21 Feb 1921

Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.

23 Jun 1914

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

03 Jan 1986

Silent about two clumsy glaziers.
20 Oct 1913
Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her. The other old fellow objects strenuously.