- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC.   viewing copy.   1 videocassette of 1.
b/w.  
fullscreen.   sound.  
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. Contains: THE ENCHANTED DRAWING (J. Stuart Blackton, Edison Co., 1900, 1 min.); FUN IN A BAKERY SHOP (Edwin S. Porter, Edison Co., 1902, 1 min.); HUMOROUS PHASES OF FUNNY FACES (Blackton, Vitagraph, 1906, 3 min.); KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES [WOMEN'S STYLES] (Harry S. Palmer, Gaumont, 1915, 3 min.); KEEPING UP WITH THE JONES [MEN'S STYLES] (Palmer, Gaumont, 1915, 3 min.); DREAMY DUD: “HE RESOLVES NOT TO SMOKE” (Wallace Carlson, Essanay, 1915, 5 min.); US FELLERS: “DUD LEAVES HOME” (Carlson, Bray, 1919, 5 min.); BOBBY BUMPS STARTS A LODGE (Earl Hurd, Bray, 1916, 5 min.); KRAZY KAT GOES A - WOOING (Leon Searl, Hearst, 1916, 2 min.); KRAZY KAT—BUGOLOGIST (Frank Moser, Hearst, 1916, 3 min.); KRAZY KAT AND IGNATZ MOUSE AT THE CIRCUS (Searl, Hearst, 1916, 3 min.); THE PHABLE OF A BUSTED ROMANCE (Raoul Barré, Hearst, 1915, 2 min.); THE PHABLE OF THE PHAT WOMAN (Barré, Hearst, 1916, 2 min.); NEVER AGAIN! “THE STORY OF A SPEEDER COP” (Barré, Hearst, 1916, 2 min.); Silent. MR. NOBODY HOLME: “HE BUYS A JITNEY” (Leon Searl, Hearst, 1916, 1 min.); MARY AND GRETEL (Howard S. Moss, Motoy/Peter Pan, 1917, 7 min.); THE DINOSAUR AND THE MISSING LINK: A PREHISTORIC TRAGEDY (Willie O'Brien, Conquest/Edison, 1917, 6 min.); W.S.S. THRIFTETTES (Felton BDF Films, 1918, 6 min.); AWOL; OR, ALL WRONG OLD LADDIEBUCK (Charles Bowers, AMP, 1919, 6 min.); THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS: “POLICY AND PIE” (Gregory La Cava, Pathe, 1918, 7 min.); fragment from GERTIE ON TOUR (Winsor McCay, Rialto, 1921, 1 min.); fragment from THE CENTAURS (McCay, Rialto, 1921, 2 min.); TONY SARG'S ALMANAC: “THE FIRST CIRCUS” (Tony Sarg & Herbert Dawley, 1921, 6 min.).
Titles
+ AWOL: Or, All Wrong Old Laddiebuck
- Director:
- Bowers, Charles
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1919
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Bobby Bumps Starts A Lodge
- Director:
- Hurd, Earl
- Production Co:
- Bray Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Dinosaur And The Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy, The
- Director:
- O’Brien, Willis
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1917
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Dreamy Dud: He Resolves Not To Smoke
- Director:
- Carlson, Wallace
- Production Co:
- Essanay
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Krazy Kat And Ignatz Mouse At The Circus
- Director:
- Searl, Leon
- Production Co:
- Hearst
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. Based loosely on the comic strip, lovelorn Krazy Kat pines after the brick-tossing object of his strange affection, Ignatz Mouse.
+ Katzenjammer Kids: Policy and Pie, The
- Director:
- La Cava, Gregory
- Production Co:
- Pathé
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Keeping Up With The Jones [Women’s Styles]
- Director:
- Palmer, Harry S.
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Keeping Up With The Jones [Men’s Styles]
- Director:
- Palmer, Harry S.
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing
- Director:
- Searl, Leon
- Production Co:
- Hearst
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. 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
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Language:
- English text
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. Based loosely on the comic strip, lovelorn Krazy Kat pines after the brick-tossing object of his strange affection, Ignatz Mouse.
+ Mary And Gretel
- Director:
- Moss, Howard S.
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1917
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. A surreal fable about a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs and two bewildered young girls.
+ Mr. Nobody Holme: “He Buys A Jitney”
- Director:
- Searl, Leon
- Production Co:
- Hearst
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. A short satire of contemporary life based on comic strips by Tom E. Powers.
+ Never Again! “The Story Of The Speeder Cop”
- Director:
- Barré, Raoul
- Production Co:
- Hearst
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Phable Of A Busted Romance, The
- Director:
- Barré, Raoul
- Production Co:
- Hearst
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1915
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Phable Of The Phat Woman, The
- Director:
- Barré, Raoul
- Production Co:
- Hearst
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1916
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Tony Sarg’s Almanac: The First Circus
- Director:
- Sarg, Tony; Dawley, Herbert
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Language:
- English intertitles
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Us Fellers: “Dud Leaves Home"”
- Director:
- Carlson, Wallace
- Production Co:
- Bray Studios
- Running Time:
- Short.   5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1919
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ W.S.S. Thriftettes
- Production Co:
- Felton BDF Films
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1918
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
+ Centaurs, The [Fragment]
- Director:
- McCay, Winsor; McCay, John; Fitzsimmons, John
- Production Co:
- Rialto Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. The only surviving fragment of one of Winsor McCay’s final films, a lovely short film about a community of centaurs.
+ Enchanted Drawing, The
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1900
- Genre:
- Animation, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Fun In A Bakery Shop
- Director:
- Porter, Edwin S.
- Production Co:
- Edison Co.
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1902
- Genre:
- Animation, Early Cinema, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Gertie On Tour [Fragment]
- Director:
- McCay, Winsor; McCay, John; Fitzsimmons, John
- Production Co:
- Rialto Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1921
- Genre:
- Animation, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score. The surviving fragment of a short film about Gertie the Dinosaur.
+ Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces
- Director:
- Blackton, J. Stuart
- Production Co:
- Vitagraph Co. of America
- Running Time:
- Short.   3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1906
- Genre:
- Animation, Early Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with piano score.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog