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Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies
Sun, 23 Sep 1900
This shows the heart of one of the tremendous drifts in the east end of Galveston. Hundreds of dead bodies are concealed in these immense masses, and at the time the picture was taken the odor given out could be detected for miles. The subject shows a gang of laborers clearing away the debris in the search for corpses, one of which was discovered while the picture was being taken. (Edison film catalog)
A Search for Evidence
Sun, 02 Aug 1903
Looking for evidence that her husband may have been unfaithful, a woman is in a hotel, accompanied by a witness, and they are peeking through the keyholes at the guests. After looking at a couple of rooms inhabited by strangers, they see a tray of drinks taken into room #9, but the room turns out to be occupied by a group of men playing cards. Still the wife continues, sure that eventually she'll find what she's looking for.
A Sammy in Siberia
Sun, 06 Apr 1919
A bumbling American soldier saves a girl from a bunch of Cossacks.
Danse macabre
Wed, 08 Mar 1922
The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?
Fig Leaves
Sun, 22 Aug 1926
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
The Crowd
Sat, 03 Mar 1928
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Fri, 17 Sep 1920
The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.
The Idle Class
Sun, 25 Sep 1921
At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, unhappy wife.
The Wildcat
Thu, 14 Apr 1921
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Song of Triumphant Love
Sat, 02 Jan 1915
Our Dancing Daughters
Sat, 01 Sep 1928
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Diary of a Lost Girl
Fri, 27 Sep 1929
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Sun, 09 Jan 1916
Villains launch Fatty and Mabel's beachfront house into the ocean.
Stolen Love
Sun, 02 Dec 1928
The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she wants to marry?
The Enchanted Drawing
Fri, 16 Nov 1900
A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.
The Ocean Waif
Thu, 02 Nov 1916
An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.
The Glorious Fourth
Sun, 26 Jun 1927
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.