Flower girls hand baskets of flowers to Queen Alexandra on ‘Rose Day’. Included on the BFI DVD “A Royal Occasion”.

Incomplete prints exist at the Library of Congress and the National Archives Of Canada.

Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was…

Unknown if lost.

A physician enacts revenge on the woman he loves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The film depicts her descent into madness in a red-tinted…

Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the track;…

The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.

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Luke, working in a fireworks factory.

A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child. A copy exists in the Archives du Film du CNC according to…

After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

The story of a young woman living in the wilderness.

A 1916 film directed by Allan Dwan.

In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with…

Based on the novel Mr Meeson’s Will by H. Rider Haggard. The plot concerns a shipwrecked author and her publisher. Copies exist in the George Eastman Museum and the former…

Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the…

“Midnight at the Old Mill” has some nice “Guignol” touches with mysterious doctors in black and Ham having to play a corpse at one moment.

Short animal comedy starring chimpanzees as Napoleon and Sally.

The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following day, the duke falls off his…

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Silent drama directed by Ivan Abramson.

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Uncle Kalsson has won the lottery and decides to visit the family for a spending spree.

Two journalists attempt to uncover the truth behind the criminal organisation, known as The Vampires, who are terrorizing Paris.

After a brief view of Edgar Allan Poe’s family background, his grandfather, David Poe, Sr., an Irish immigrant to America, and his father, David Poe, Jr., the poet’s life is…

Angered by his son Jack’s wild behavior, Mr. Bennett sends him to college on a limited allowance. Jack is engaged to Irma Brentwood, the daughter of his father’s partner, however,…

When a stack of valuable bonds go missing from the Grant household, suspicion falls on little Carmen Grant’s playmate Georgie, whose father is a poor ex-convict trying to go straight.

Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.

Amateur aviator Harold McNutt’s hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.

A medical operation transforms a female criminal into an honest woman.

Jim Maitland (Gordon Mullen) loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors “Keno” Bates (William S. Hart)…