Silent Film Movies

A large ship embarking.

Elaborate floats and costumes parading the streets of Nice.

The fakir with his trick monkey is seated on the pavement in a street in Cairo. He plays a tom-tom, while the monkey dances the couchee-couchee. The m...

The carrot caterpillar hides among and feeds on the leafy foliage in carrot fields. A man demonstrates how difficult it is to detect and remove them f...

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)

An urban husband and wife, walking in the countryside outside Paris, are so impressed with the delicious taste of a cow's milk that they buy the cow a...

A barber's customer is not accustomed to the blade. Luckily, the coiffeur has a modern solution.

This picture was taken from the front end of a train during a trip from the famous Cliff House to Bakers Beach along the shore of the Golden Gate. The...

A couple visiting New York City leave their hotel, and take a sight-seeing car to tour the city. They start with Grant's Tomb, and then go to Central...

Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to ge...

Niilo, a son of a rich estate owner, is in love with a poor crofter's adopted daughter Heleena. However, on his father's orders, Niilo instead becomes...

A private investigator is invited to come to an address. He realizes that it is a trap and take some precautions before going there. Once in place, he...

A series of demonstrations that illustrate some of the scientific principles involved in magnetism.

A World War I promotional cartoon for war savings stamps.

A typical Pollard-Morrison outing is Rush Orders (1921),in which the pair ride into town on a railroad handcar (with Morrison providing the locomotiv...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco i...

The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typical style of making amusing films appropriate for...