Our hero visits the opera, is mistaken for the manager and is treated like royalty until the deception is uncovered.

Elderly millionaire James Rance, whose only passion is chess, warns his grandson Tommy, who missed the previous evening’s game because he played poker with his uncle Gilbert, that should he…

A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington (“Phil” for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The…

The setting of the story is Mexico. Violent bandit and cattle rustler Pancho, his rude henchman Santas and a group of raiders have sworn to drive the settlers out of…

Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward…

Larry Semon stars a guy being chased. Here we have a small twist on the sitting on the tram path and the tram goes the other way at the last…

Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen…

Directed by J.P. McGowan.

Early Croatian film adaptation of the play “The Two Orphans”, a five-act melodrama set during French Revolution.

Lost Croatian silent film.

Trieste, Italian again, welcome for the first time his King.

Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years,…

The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. They meet up with a girl and become rivals for her charms.

A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.

Eleanor Field and Cullen Landis are in love, but her father, Billy Bevan, objects because…. hey this is a one-reel comedy and we don’t have time for things like that….

Silent drama……

Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.

The story begins with an uptown idyll. Widowed Mrs. Saárdy and her daughter, Hedda live in seclusion. András, a decent carpenter apprentice courts to the girl. Their idyllic relationship is…

1918 – Lev Kuleshov’s directorial debut. This work is extremely important not only for Russian cinema; it became a landmark in the history of the world’s cinematograph. For the first…

A lady unable to get a maid for a house showing dresses up as the main herself.

A poor shopgirl is offered a “good time” for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the…

The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.

Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe’s wife’s jewelry.

The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni. The film features the first onscreen performance from Vittorio De Sica.

Snitch steals Ginger’s baseball tickets and takes Ginger’s girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. The film is notable…

In The Villain, Billy attempted something a little different. He’s still imitating Chaplin, but this time he’s playing the wicked, top-hatted Charlie found in some of his earliest Keystone appearances…

The first silent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. It is considered a lost film.

Flower girls hand baskets of flowers to Queen Alexandra on ‘Rose Day’. Included on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.

Incomplete prints exist at the Library of Congress and the National Archives Of Canada.

Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was…

Unknown if lost.

A physician enacts revenge on the woman he loves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The film depicts her descent into madness in a red-tinted…

Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the track;…

The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.

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