Movies

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is...

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the...

A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the...

Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred Gladys Hulette as Alice. Being a silent film, naturally...

A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.

Mr. Clayworth, a wealthy American and self-made man, has a daughter Bessie, who is determined to marry a foreign title much against her father's...

After reading a newspaper article regarding old Tightwad's rise in the world, Bill and Jim hit upon a plan to get some of Tightwad's easy money by...

A short comic film in which young André delivers a telegram to the theatre. Once there, he has to stand in for an actor during a performance...

A farce in which Ms. Murphy finds that a horseshoe brings her anything but happiness.

In the first scene we see a group of children at a window waiting for the arrival of their father. Following this we learn that the little family...

When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him...