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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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 smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from...

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the De...

Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.

Early short film dramatizing the biblical story of Jephthah (Judges 11).

Jack Haley joins the circus.

A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for t...