Vitagraph Company Of America Movies

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

Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no fo...

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

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

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...

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal t...

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

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.

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery owne...

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

A slapstick comedy directed by Larry Semon and starring Hughie Mack & Patsy De Forest.

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

Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take him aboard his ship, manages to sneak in as a stowaw...

The story takes place three years into the future. Events represented take place in 1914 when supposedly there is a war between the United European St...

Albertina is a celebrated dancer whose fame is widespread. However, she has overtaxed her strength, is forbidden to appear in public and is obliged to...

In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments.

This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.