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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When Charlie the Tramp wanders into a mission he is smitten by Edna and puts back the collection box which he has taken. Reformed, he becomes a policeman and is…

Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child. A copy exists in the Archives du Film du CNC according to…

After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

The story of a young woman living in the wilderness.

A 1916 film directed by Allan Dwan.

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with…

Based on the novel Mr Meeson’s Will by H. Rider Haggard. The plot concerns a shipwrecked author and her publisher. Copies exist in the George Eastman Museum and the former…

Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the…

“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.

Short animal comedy starring chimpanzees as Napoleon and Sally.

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Silent drama directed by Ivan Abramson.

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

After a brief view of Edgar Allan Poe’s family background, his grandfather, David Poe, Sr., an Irish immigrant to America, and his father, David Poe, Jr., the poet’s life is…

Angered by his son Jack’s wild behavior, Mr. Bennett sends him to college on a limited allowance. Jack is engaged to Irma Brentwood, the daughter of his father’s partner, however,…

When a stack of valuable bonds go missing from the Grant household, suspicion falls on little Carmen Grant’s playmate Georgie, whose father is a poor ex-convict trying to go straight.

Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.

Amateur aviator Harold McNutt’s hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.

Jim Maitland (Gordon Mullen) loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors “Keno” Bates (William S. Hart)…

Enemy agents under the leadership of “Emanon” conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The…

After a dastardly villain steals milk from a baby, he tries to put the heroine through a laundry press.

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into…

After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master’s assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.

An outlaw on the run comes upon a widow and her small child. When the child is bitten by a snake, the outlaw risks his life by riding into town…

A young wild girl Fanchon ( Mary Pickford ) lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon…

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel’s father’s place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner’s son in exchange for tearing…

Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point…

Survives in its entirety at the Cinemateca Do Museu De Arte Moderna.

Reportedly the earliest-known US silent stag or pornographic film, A Free Ride includes explicit sex scenes of a wealthy man having sex with two female hitchhikers by the side of…

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country, after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees that Tillie’s father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he…

Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is the foundation for the iron magnate’s financial…