An experimental sitcom, shot in the style of silent films of the early twentieth century. A parody of military-patriotic films. The plot of the film is the battle of the Russian army with Napoleon in 1812.
A man is robbed and creates a plan to get his money back from the robber.
A snappy young book agent reforms and becomes a cook for a group of Boy Scouts.
Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin
An insoluble quest.
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman.
A silent film following a broken father and his misfit baby.
A hapless stage musician struggles to keep the attention of her meagre audience. When her tricks start to backfire with increasingly dire results, she turns to ever more spectacular methods.
Pompeyo and Rodolfo work in a newspaper, but they dream of becoming film actors, so they go to a casting for an American film that will be shot in Madrid for a few days; but things will not turn out as they expect…
In 1970, Kuster Beaton, a former silent-film star, gives an interview looking back over his career. A journalist asks him about his legendary power : an alleged super-speed that enabled him to shoot his films without special effects.
This typically rambunctious Keystone comedy features Charlie Murray as a French count who challenges a rival to a duel over the affections of his secretary.
As a man forgets where he placed his keys, panic ensues.
Comedy short film directed by Filippo Martelli.
Cinematic fairy tale and adaptation of the story "Ochesel and Balaior" by Marin Iorda. The story of two brothers that are diametrically opposed who, as children, go in search of the Enchanted Fortress.
Mädi Macht Krieg
A man loses his hearing and learns to appreciate life through silent films.
The year is 1940. Bethany is a beautiful hairdresser and owner of a barber shop in the city. On an ordinary day, the new clumsy customer Harry arrives. Their lives are changed just by the first eye contact. Immediately, love is in the air.
The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. The meeting was celebrated in both El Paso and Juárez with parades, elaborate receptions, lavish gifts and large crowds. Shot by the pioneers of Mexican Cinema the brothers Alva. This is a typical example of newsreel material prior to the Mexican revolution. By hemerographical references we know that this footage was presented to the then president of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz in the Castle of Chapultepec, then residence of the president.
A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center, and the Library of Congress.