Silent Film Movies

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down...

With the cameraman atop a moving train car the viewer is given a one minute glimpse of a French urban area.

An officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the...

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close...

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy.

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as...

Oswald plays a cowboy who must rescue Sadie from a runaway stagecoach and Pegleg Pete.

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient...

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip...

“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”

Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper...

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short, Walt Disney's earlier character, before going on to create Mickey Mouse. Here he is canoeing in the wilderness.

Gambler "On-the Level" Leigh (William S. Hart) is forced to leave his high rolling lifestyle to move his ailing sister Alice (Mildred Harris) to the...

Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance -...

The first appearance of Felix the Cat (as Master Tom). Tom falls in love with a lady cat, and while they're out courting at night, the mice ransack...

The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.

Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it...

One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action and hand-drawn animation.

The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting...