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…

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson’s Squadron…

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking picture.” (Edison…

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey’s circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company’s studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the background to provide accompaniment.

Two dancers perform in succession facing a stationary camera. The first is in a diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended. She smiles, wearing butterfly wings on…

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.