Little Women
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,…
Frauds and Frenzies
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.
Camouflage
Cupid In Quarantine
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….
After the Storm
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…
Engineer Prite’s Project
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 Maid to Order
The Price of a Good Time
The Adventurer
Oh, Doctor!
The Clemenceau Affair
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.
Over the Fence
The Villain
Little Women
The first silent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. It is considered a lost film.
Roses for the Rose Queen: Topical Budget 304-2
Flower girls hand baskets of flowers to Queen Alexandra on ‘Rose Day’. Included on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.
The Little Orphan
Her Fractured Voice
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…
The Devil’s Assistant
As Luck Would Have It
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 Vicar of Wakefield
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.
Luke’s Fireworks Fizzle
The Price of Silence
The Rink
The Place Beyond the Winds
Fifty-Fifty
The Half-Breed
The Grasp of Greed
The Fireman
Midnight at the Old Mill
“Midnight at the Old Mill” has some nice “Guignol” touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.