Silent Film Movies

A young woman has only one friend: a plant. That is, until tragedy strikes. (Promo Short for Predicamented Company)

A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already...

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.

Early Balkan footage.

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying...

Short documentary on the Antwerp Ford Motor Company plant.

The misadventures of two intrepid explorers in the Egyptian desert.

The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.

A man is trying to shave, but grotesque faces keep appearing in his mirror.

A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its...

A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt...

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

Humphrey Van Weyden and Maud Brewster are rescued by a nearby ship when the ferry they're on is rammed and sinks. However, instead of dropping them...

Propped upon the tail-end of a match, a housefly performs astonishing feats, alternately juggling a series of objects - a blade of grass, a cork, a...

Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.

In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various...