Silent Movies

Released in 1901

Released on August 17th, 1919. Produced by Burton Holmes.

The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a...

Released on July 6th, 1919.

Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"

"This noted place is due to rank high in history as the proving grounds of America's pluck. Every American man, woman and child should see this."...

A rich man hires a pair of brothers, one to teach him to box and the other to manage him. Meanwhile, the rich man must fend off his brother-in-law,...

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars...

Chicago streets.

An Irish Romeo and Juliet set in 18th Century during the Penal Laws. Ends with the marriage of a Catholic aristocrat and the daughter of Protestant...

A Buddhist priest and a geisha become mutually involved in a forbidden love affair. Lost film.

USPS workers go bowling.

Released on July 13th, 1919.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Consists of frantic and (mostly) uninformative pans sprinting across Elam's lawn.

Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the...

A feud in the Adirondack Mountains develops when Randolph Shaw will not give up a shack and its acreage adjoining the estate of Lord Cecil...

Travelogue of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Sailing distance to Glacier National Park, Montana. Vimy Mountain overlooks National Parks on...

A short version of the film 'A la conquête des cimes' by René Moreau released for the domestic market in two Pathe Baby big reels. In...

Sprocket holes moving across the screen.