An early example of Buster Keaton 's work, a taste of the greatness to come. Buster and Sybil Seely have just got married. One of their...

The Phantom ( Frank Readick ), an early DC character, narrates another short crime drama. A circus trapeze artist ( Polly Ann Young ) is pr...

Mountain folk engage in an endless series of feuds, but real trouble comes when a couple of government revenue inspectors ( Fatty Arbuckle ...

Early DC character The Phantom ( Frank Readick ) narrates another short but sweet crime drama. The body of a young woman ( Geneva Mitchell )...

A neat little crime drama narrated by the early DC character The Shadow. Banker Steve Corley ( Thurston Hall ) has been embezzling the bank ...

A wonderful educational film (made by British Telecommunications) showing how telephone exchanges work and how they connect one telephone to...

Charlie Chaplin is a waiter in a restaurant, though as you can imagine much slapstick mayhem ensues. In his lunch break he goes roller skat...

The Alice series were early Walt Disney live action / animation hybrids.  Alice ( Anne Shirley ) and Julius the cat are the owners of an eg...

Buster Keaton is working in a blacksmithing shop with plenty of mayhem of course. Buster ends up in a fight with the actual blacksmith ( Jo...

Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle play a couple of drunken gents in this early Chaplin comedy. The gents get drunk together amid much sla...

A fine little silent comedy. A new Western starring Mack Swain is starting at the local movie theatre and a large crowd is assembling. To t...

Snub Pollard is a dandy who is hanging around a park chasing butterflies in a net. After some flirting (with girls not butterflies) he ends...

Two cockney criminals ( Tommy Godfrey and George Sweeney ) break into an office to break into the safe, but this isn't a blag from the ...

A curious comedy short. We are in the year 1950 (though looks remarkably like 1920 still!) and men and women have switched roles. Unfortunat...

The fourth and final of the curious series of short films documenting the mishaps of Norman. Norman ( Douglas P Macintosh ) is to give a spe...

A Charlie Chapin comedy short which is a decent satire on high society. Charlie's boss, a tailor ( Eric Campbell ) finds an invitation ...

A wonderful, if somewhat aimless, comedy short by the amazing WC Fields . Bellweather (Fields) is at a hotel in Florida. After some awkward ...

A surreal and highly strange (and amusing) comedy that has to be seen to be believed! Andy ( Andy Clyde ) is announcing the engagement of hi...

A rather baffling short crime feature, the last in the Carr & Crabtree series. In England Miller has stolen the famous Stanhope diamonds...

Part of the Carr & Crabtree crime series, and a very decent little tale in less than twenty minutes! Two stock brokers are found dead in...