Silent Film Movies

a silent movie by Bruno Ziener

“Showing a group of soldiers and Red Cross nurses being amused by a number of small children who are riding upon the backs of trick bears. A remarkabl...

The Bogie Man's cave is one of the many triumphs of set design for Georges Méliès. More unusual for the pioneering French director is the grisly turn...

Using a futuristic submarine, pirates kidnap a young couple, torpedo a passenger ship, travel under the sea to salvage bullion, then make their escape...

A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.

Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden in this surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title.

Mad scientist, doctor Ten Brinken artificially inseminates a prostitute with a dead man's semen. The resulting child grows up to be a beautiful, evil...

A fight breaks out over a poster.

The Washington Star of April 1st, 1900, gave the following account of the ceremony: "Over 40,000 women and children passed through the White House Gat...

A partially nude woman fixes and brushes her hair.

Bert Lane and Margery Murray are in love, but her aunt insists she marry either a society man or a hero, so his hands decide that he will be a made-to...

The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust.

Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.

A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

This is not only a colored film of great beauty, but one showing a series of clever trick pictures in which great ingenuity on the part of the operato...

The gang is trying just about anything to pass the time during their summer vacation. As usual, Mickey and Jack are trying to win the affections of Ma...

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.