- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.
fullscreen. sound - 5.1 Dolby surround.
Titles
+ Enchanted Drawing, The
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
- Production Co:
- Edison
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A cartoonist is photographed in Edison’s “Black Maria” studio performing a vaudeville routine known as the “lightening sketch,” supplemented by stop-camera tricks that bring the drawn objects to life. Copyrighted in 1900, but probably filmed three or four years earlier. Silent with music.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Fun in a Bakery Shop
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1902
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A proto-animation film using an early version of claymation.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Co. of America
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. The earliest surviving American animated film, using chalkboard sketches and then cut-outs.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Keeping up with the Jones [Women's Styles]
- Director:
- Palmer, Harry S.
- Production Co:
- Gaumont American
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A husband is oppressed by his wife’s obsession with high society and consumer fashion.
+ Keeping Up With The Jones [Men’s Styles]
- Director:
- Palmer, Harry S.
- Production Co:
- Gaumont American
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Language:
- Silent with music track.
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A husband feels oppressed by his wife’s obsession with high society and consumer fashion.
+ Dreamy Dud: "He Resolves Not to Smoke"
- Director:
- Carlson, Wallace
- Production Co:
- Essanay
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An animation about a boy with an overactive fantasy life and down-to-earth dog. Silent with music track.
+ US Fellers: "Dud Leaves Home"
- Director:
- Carlson, Wallace
- Production Co:
- Bray
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1919
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- An animation about a boy with an overactive fantasy life and a down-to-earth dog. Silent with music track.
+ Bobby Bumps Starts A Lodge
- Director:
- Hurd, Earl
- Production Co:
- Bray Studios
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A mischievous boy tells his friend that he’s starting a lodge in order to trick him, but Bobby soon gets his comeuppance when they encounter a bear.
+ Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing
- Director:
- Searl, Leon
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. Based loosely on the comic strip, lovelorn Krazy Kat pines after the brick-tossing object of his strange affection, Ignatz Mouse. Krazy Kat visits what he thinks is his “darlink” Ignatz’s house.
+ Krazy Kat - Bugologist
- Director:
- Moser, Frank
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Language:
- English text
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. Based loosely on the comic strip, lovelorn Krazy Kat pines after the brick-tossing object of his strange affection, Ignatz Mouse.
+ Krazy Kat And Ignatz Mouse At The Circus
- Director:
- Searl, Leon
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. Based loosely on the comic strip, lovelorn Krazy Kat pines after the brick-tossing object of his strange affection, Ignatz Mouse.
+ Phable Of A Busted Romance, The
- Director:
- Barré, Raoul
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music. A short satire of contemporary life based on comic strips by Tom E. Powers.
+ Phable Of The Phat Woman, The
- Director:
- Barré, Raoul
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A short satire of contemporary life based on comic strips by Tom E. Powers. Silent with music track.
+ Never Again! "The Story Of A Speeder Cop"
- Director:
- Barré, Raoul
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A short satire of contemporary life based on comic strips by Tom E. Powers. Silent with music track.
+ Mr. Nobody Holme: "He Buys A Jitney"
- Director:
- Searl, Leon
- Production Co:
- Hearst/International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A short satire of contemporary life based on comic strips by Tom E. Powers.
+ Mary And Gretel
- Director:
- Moss, Howard S.
- Production Co:
- Motoy/Peter Pan
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1917
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A surreal fable about a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs and two bewildered young girls.
+ Dinosaur And The Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy, The
- Director:
- O’Brien, Willis
- Production Co:
- Conquest/Edison
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1917
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. Animation of clay-modeled dinosaurs and a giant ape.
+ W. S. S. Thriftettes
- Production Co:
- Felton BDF Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. WWI propaganda piece promoting war savings stamps, reputed here to help confine Kaiser Wilhelm to a cage.
+ AWOL: Or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck
- Director:
- Bowers, Charles
- Production Co:
- American Motion Picture Co.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1919
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- A cautionary tale for troops impatient to return home after the armistice. Silent with music track.
+ Katzenjammer Kids: Policy and Pie, The
- Director:
- La Cava, Gregory
- Production Co:
- Pathe; International Film Service
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. A film about the German immigrants, the Katzenjammer family and their two mischievous children, Hans and Fritz.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Gertie On Tour [Fragment]
- Director:
- McCay, Winsor; McCay, John; Fitzsimmons, John
- Production Co:
- Rialto Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. The surviving fragment of a short film about Gertie the Dinosaur.
+ Centaurs, The [Fragment]
- Director:
- McCay, Winsor; McCay, John; Fitzsimmons, John
- Production Co:
- Rialto Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track. The only surviving fragment of one of Winsor McCay’s final films, a lovely short film about a community of centaurs.
+ Tony Sarg's Almanac: The First Circus
- Director:
- Sarg, Tony; Dawley, Herbert
- Production Co:
- Dawley Prods.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with music track.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Patchwork Girl Of Oz, The
- Director:
- MacDonald, J. Farrell
- Production Co:
- Oz Film
- Running Time:
- Feature. 67 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1914
- Genre:
- Fantasy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical score. A boy and his father try to escape their life of poverty by journeying to Oz. The boy finds work in the home of a magician who is trying to bring to life a patchwork girl. When the boy learns that the magician plans to use his creation as a slave, he contrives to foil the evil plot.
+ Florida Enchantment, A
- Director:
- Drew, Sidney
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Co. of America; Broadway Star Features Co.
- Running Time:
- Feature. 63 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1914
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Fantasy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical score.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog