Bumbershoot is a silent comedy about a hapless man desperate to find an umbrella strong enough to make his life whole.
An eccentric sea captain ventures into unfamiliar waters by attempting to take a train ride to New York City.
A short, silent comedy about the dangers of unqualified optimism.
A naïve dreamer who accidentally finds himself in a position of power. Mistaking power for purpose, he loses sight of everything that was once meaningful to him.
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his bodyguard.
Remy tries to hop on the game, but life gets in the way.
More than a century after it was filmed in and around Newport and Sunapee, a long-lost silent comedy starring vaudeville entertainer and local filmmaker Billy B. Van is coming home!
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
Young Artie Hamilton gets expelled from college, and his angered father--a wealthy railroad baron--throws him out of the house. Artie tells his father that within a year he'll have made enough money that he could buy his father's railroad. Soon afterwards Artie falls for a young girl he sees at a girls' school, Annabelle Willowboy. When he discovers that Annabelle is being courted by wealthy Uriah Updike, and that Updike's father owns property on which Artie's own father intends to build a branch of his railroad, Artie sees a chance to make his boast to his father come true--but it will take some scheming and trickery to do so, something Artie is fully prepared to do.
After failing to give a woman flowers, dorky Melvin must race through a hostile, disorienting building and catch up with the woman of his dreams to ensure their connection is not lost.
Directed by Thomas N. Heffron
A man wears a disguise
Plump's girlfriend is sent to boarding school. To stay close to her, he disguises himself as one of the girl students. Their plan to elope is almost ruined until a burglar causes great confusion at the school and they make their getaway.
Racist silent comedy
Dirk has some car troubles.
Narrating the struggles of a young man from Lima to establish a family and gain wealth, Garland manages to articulate, on several levels, the city/countryside dichotomy, a dominant theme in Peruvian and Latin American cinema during those final years of the silent era. The film follows Sisebuto Calatrava, who pretends to be married in order to receive his aunt and uncle's inheritance. The problems begin when they decide to travel to Lima to visit the couple.
An exploration of the dazzling rise and mysterious downfall of French actor and filmmaker Max Linder (1883-1925), the world’s first international film star and mentor to British actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona"
Lilly convinces her best friend René to join her on a nocturnal trespassing adventure. The two young women break into a zoo and enter an idiosyncratic animal kingdom where the boundaries between fear and desire begin to blur.