Vitagraph Company of America Popular Movie

Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing...

genus: Animation

cast: Winsor McCay

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor...

genus: Animation

cast: Winsor McCay

Jack Howard, through hard work, has at last placed himself in a comfortable position and finds himself with his dear little wife, Mabel, located in a...

genus: Comedy

cast: James Morrison

Part two of Blackton's "The Life of Napoleon". After Waterloo, Napoleon reminisces. His triumphs are seen in flashback. The film ends with the exiled...

genus: History

cast: William Humphrey

A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His...

genus: Animation

cast:

A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.

genus: Comedy

cast: John Bunny

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

genus: Comedy

cast: J. Stuart Blackton

A repairman falls in love with a blacksmith's daughter, who's having trouble with their greedy landlord, and helps them get one over on him.

genus: Comedy

cast: Jimmy Aubrey

The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of...

genus: Drama

cast: Bessie Love

A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.

genus: Western

cast: Marguerite De La Motte

Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply...

genus: Drama

cast: Robert Edeson

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint...

genus: Comedy

cast: Sidney Drew

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

genus: Comedy

cast: Paul Panzer

Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him....

genus: Drama

cast: Alice Calhoun

Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his...

genus: Drama

cast: Maurice Costello

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

genus: Comedy

cast: Larry Semon

Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get...

genus: Comedy

cast: Hughie Mack

It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van...

genus: Comedy

cast: Maurice Costello

The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint...

genus: Comedy

cast: Larry Semon

Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is...

genus: Romance

cast: Alice Calhoun