A hunted bandit cleverly outwits the sheriff after a thrilling chase over rocks and sandhills. Reaching the Point Loma Lighthouse, he introduces himself as a revenue man to the lighthouse…

A short Western about the tragic romance between a sheriff and the daughter of a horse thief.

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.

After her father dies, Chloe, played by Edith Storey, is left alone in the world. She is discovered and taken home to their cave by brothers Dagban and Eric, who…

Showing the trail of civilization across the western country, the emigrant train, the Cooper family, the treachery of the Indians, the capture of Helen Cooper and the daring attempt to…

A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.

John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John’s first wife, Martha. She refuses all contact…

REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the blind girl. Diane’s father kills her husband and forces her to marry…

The old lighthouse keeper lives peacefully with his two daughters, who are both engaged to fisherman. One night he receives a message announcing the shipwreck…

Thanhouser’s version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron.

An investment plan that tells potential investors they can “get rich quickly” turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all their money.

Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom….

Plot unknown.

Mr. and Mrs. Parker leave their apartment to the care of their servants, Riley and his wife, while Mrs. Parker pays an extended visit to her mother, and Mr. Parker…

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master’s daughter after her mother’s death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a…

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle,…

A criminal gang conspire to rob the home of a wealthy banker and his two daughters. To do so, they first lure the banker from his home, then have a…

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city’s spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, “Mother, there in the big city…

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée;…

Directed by J. Searle Dawley.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the…

Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can’t stop laughing, and every other passenger catches the…

The story centers on a gregarious but rather undependable man whose attentions to a young gypsy woman lead to complications for them both.

Silent western

Two tunnel workers are fighting over the wife of one, who’s also involved with the other. Suddenly an explosion occurs. Instead of fighting, they help each other escape.

On Christmas Eve, Santa feeds his reindeer and loads his sleigh, before going on his journey to deliver toys to the children of the world.

Police officers pursue a speeding automobile that almost hit a small child. This short is an outtake from Life of an American Policeman (1905). Once that film had been edited…

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

A Western cowboy attempts to flirt with a veiled young lady sitting on a bench in the garden…

In certain sections of New York City large numbers of Jewish and Italian push-cart vendors congregate so closely along the sidewalks that they interfere with traffic. Policemen keep them moving….

A couple of guys sort letters into pigeon-holes, another empties sacks of post and stamps the letters before passing them to a portly chap who is undoubtedly the star of…

Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the…

Shows a tramp enter and try to ride a wheel, from which he makes some very ludicrous falls and gives up in despair, after which an artist enters and jumps…

Railroad from Georgetown to Silver Plume, Colorado.

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign “Don’t blow out the gas.” A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy….

After driving the Filipinos out of the trenches our troops, after firing one or two volleys, press forward…