Mack Sennett

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But...

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment....

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.

Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in Los Angeles, he is met by a couple of friends,...

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself....

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...

A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless--...

Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the...

The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.

Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.

When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney...

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position....

Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and...

The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé.

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two...

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and...

Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.

In this one, Mabel Normand plays the title role, a wild child who keeps tormenting people and getting into scrapes. Mack is courting Kate Toncray,...

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.

Fred Ward and Mack Sennett are two Spanish brothers seeking the hand of a lovely senorita played by Mabel Normand. They provide some simple amusement...

Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover. Sennett looks quite dashing as the big game hunter. He's...

Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp...

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the...

Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of...

Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along with her mother Kate Bruce. She steals some money...

D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the...

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl...

A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied...

In this fictional film with fictional characters, Baron Gonzola (Luis Alberni)is trying to sell Mack Sennett (Mack Sennett) and William Beaudine...

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at...

A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...

This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective...

The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this...

A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and...

The young husband's irrational jealousy makes him suspicious of every attention bestowed upon his wife. Even the minister, who performed their...

A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is...

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

Rastus and the Game Cock is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mack Sennett.

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman...

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play,...

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...

Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail...

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die....

Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...

A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He...

A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard...

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.

Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is...

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist,...

All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all...

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the...

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

A quarrelling couple are forced to quarantine together after the household maid becomes ill of an infectious disease.

In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

A constable and his sergeant are rivals for a girl, and to impress her they both attempt to apprehend an escaped convict. Probably the first Keystone...

After second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was borrowed to force his bankruptcy), he must dodge a...

When a new neighbor attempts to save a young wife from an intruder, her husband misunderstands; the jealous husband raises a ruckus and winds up in...

Mack attempts to elope with Mabel, but her friend dons the veil; this confuses both Mack and Mabel's dad Sterling - who trails the couple with the...

Mrs. Smith's friends decide to teach her flirty husband a lesson by engaging him in a saucy game of "blind man's bluff" for his wife's discovery.

A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foiled by the chef whom he snubbed.

Mack takes Mabel to Coney Island, only to have her stolen by slick Ford, who is temporarily out of sight of a watchful wife and children.

Bashful Mack has his friend Fred take flowers and presents to his girl Mabel by proxy, but the "friend" takes advantage and lures her to the altar in...

The minister is appointed head of a purity league designed to keep a risque dancer from performing her act; however, the deacon becomes infatuated...

Mrs. Smith hired detectives to trail her husband, whom she believes is being unfaithful; police chief Larkin gets mistaken for Mr. Smith by the...

Mabel prefers conceited Fred to earnest rube Mack, but when she is held up by tramps Fred runs out on her and leaves Mack to rescue her.

Brown is insanely jealous of his wife and mistakes her brother for a lover, while the Brown's child is kidnapped by an evil tramp.

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

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

William Thompson and John Smith occupied offices in the same New York skyscraper, and both being seized with an irrepressible desire to cut loose and...

Sleuths Mack and Fred go after bandit Ford, but wind up tied to a tree by the crook with a ferocious bear approaching.

After an argument with his wife in which nosy neighbors and police intervene, Pat feigns suicide by drowning to get sympathy.

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

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and...

An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too...

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

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property,...

A poorly compensated bank clerk is, we may say, to that trying position of "Tantalus" in sight of tons of money but not a dollar of his own. This...

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

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but...

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

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

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

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that...

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...

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

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

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the...

Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits...

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...

In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through...

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys...

Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and...

A presumably lost film starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.

Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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

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

Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to...

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

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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

Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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

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

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...

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

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

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen...

Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...

William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical...

Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl...

An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covered with banana skins, inviting slip-and-fall...

The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved...

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens,...

The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor....

It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their...

Clarence McKnight and Felix De Grosse are rivals for the heart of pretty little Letitia Mooney, but it is evident that Clarence is the favored one....

Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of...

Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a...

Diplomacy was not Tom's strong suit. So when May showed to him her latest painting he poured scorn on it. He was anxious to discourage her from...

Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per...

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an...

Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on...

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated...

Hoffmeyer is harassed by creditors, but thinks his troubles are over when he receives a legacy of $500. He sneaks away from his wife to make a...

Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.

A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?

Two burglars break into an apartment to rob it. One look at the sleeping daughter of the house, and one of the burglars is so smitten that he forces...

Perry Dudley, a rich eligible bachelor, is bored with his life and longs for a change. Nick, a penniless tramp, has received a letter from the town...

A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly...

An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local...

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

An old toymaker invents an automatic doll and goes to the lawyers to apply for a patent. That day a young girl is reported missing, and Dan, the cop,...

A burglar enters the home of a wealthy man and steals a valuable necklace. A reward of $500 is offered for the thief's apprehension. A couple of rube...

An eccentric Frenchman passing along the avenue, hears the sound of a beautiful voice and forthwith falls in love with the unseen singer, assuming...

A ghost has been the regular nightly visitor at a certain house so long that the occupants have gotten used to it. Three crooks, reading an account...

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where,...

Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without...

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.

After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge...

John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...

Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in...

Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he...

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own...

Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry...

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm...

A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will...

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to...

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy...

To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.

Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce.

Upon the arrival of a young girl from the city, Zeke and Jake, brothers, each determine to win her. For a time these rival brothers are amusing to...

The nervous, expectant papa leaves for the office in a fever, for the stork is expected at his home. On the same day a new cook is engaged. She is a...

Mabel's husband is a hansom cab driver. After a quarrel Mabel imagines herself neglected, and listens to the honeyed words of a tempter, and finally...

Mabel has a new beau. Her father forgets his watch at home. Mabel sees it has stopped running and gives it to her beau to have repaired. Father walks...

Mabel, her father and Mr. Tra La La, a suitor, much to her disgust, for her hand, take a trip on the coast steamer, "Harvard." Mr. Short, his rival,...

Advantage was taken of the fact that a floral parade was being held at Pasadena, Cal. in which the Keystone car was entered and won second prize, to...

His subjects have been vainly petitioning the king for improvements in his reign, without avail. The king pays too much attention to the sweetheart...

Mabel has two suitors, Smith and Jones. Smith is an elderly man who impetuously sweeps everything before him, and his dashing ways win Mabel's heart....

Brown and Smith are friends, but their wives have never met. Brown flirts with Mrs. Smith, and in revenge, Mrs. Brown flirts with Mr. Smith. Many...

A couple of French noblemen-types constantly argue (Sterling and Sennett). They're rivals for a lovely Mabel's attentions. While attending a picnic...

Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has a hefty mortgage on the inn, he thinks he can use...

The parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman he convinces his...

A Civil war comedy starring Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.

Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of...

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat...

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...

A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.

Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told...

Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce...

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...

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...

During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property,...

Georgie Burns is a conceited, athletic individual, who has turned his home into a gymnasium. His pretty wife is exceedingly vexed but cannot cure him...

A comedy short starring Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett

Mabel is in love with John, the country boy, but her father wants her to marry a Baron. She is locked up in a room, and her father watches her. John...

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...

A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand

Yes, Mack Sennett is at it again, as is Mabel Normand. This one is where Mack has gone back to work and he certainly hustles some, and makes his...

A short comedy starring Mabel Normand being chased by a very lively bear.

Hiram, a country youth, is in love with Sallie. They go fishing and Sallie falls into the water. Hiram cannot swim, so he runs to the road and stops...

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...

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...

An Italian makes love to a girl and is repulsed. She favors another man, and the Italian uses drastic measures to rid himself of his rival. He...

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo...

Hiram, a country youth, is in love with Sallie. They go fishing and Sallie falls into the water. Hiram cannot swim, so he runs to the road and stops...

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks...

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class...

Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks...

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class...

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914),...

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment....

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie...

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief...

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie...

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and...

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

Actuality set on a sheep ranch and released as a split reel along with the comedy Mabel's Adventures.

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope...

Billy Bevan in a hell of a lot of chaos!

A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job...

A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job...

The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing. In 1947, an outfit headed by...

With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.

Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin

Short comedy

Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to...

Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio...

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

Milton, a disappointed romantic, has sworn off women. He gives a lift to a female hitchhiker, whom he happily discovers is also a hurt soul and has...

Our Country Cousins is a 1914 Comedy short.

Our Country Cousins is a 1914 Comedy short.

Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain...

Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.

Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage. Father and mother...

A short musical comedic romance starring Bing Crosby as ... Bing Crosby. This 2 reel short was directed by Mack Sennett.

A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking...

The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.

Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...

A stage-struck young woman becomes an heiress, and hopes to use her new-found wealth to fulfill a fantasy.

Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.

Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marry Mrs. Brown. Locations include Rambo's Hotel,...

When some pranksters pour red pepper on a new groom's bouquet, the wedding becomes a hijinks factory.

A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman...

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.

When Mabel romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney...

A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.

Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.

The folks discover what appears to be a haunted barn.

Two rivals for Mabel's hand play a series of dirty tricks on each other. Finally, one of them gets Mabel alone and is about to marry her, but his...

Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce.

Four miscreants get revenge on the police chief by planting bombs in his house.

A 1915 short film directed by Walter Wright.

Two friends - Andy and Harry - get into trouble while they are trying to prevent the marriage of Andy's daughter.

A young lady is wooed by two men

Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.

A banker's young daughter, playing a game of "hide and seek", is apparently locked within the vault resulting in comedic rescue.

Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen...

Mabel has two suitors - an oily con man, whom she mocks in a very funny scene where she is shown twiddling a fake moustache and making her feelings...

Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a...

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and...

Cobbler Meyer puts Limburger cheese in the shoes of grocer Schnitz to sabotage his attendance with Mabel at a house party.

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.

A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Mabel Normand & Fred Mace.

Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on...

A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Fred Mace & Mabel Normand.

In this one, Mabel Normand plays the title role, a wild child who keeps tormenting people and getting into scrapes. Mack is courting Kate Toncray,...

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.

A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.

Fred Ward and Mack Sennett are two Spanish brothers seeking the hand of a lovely senorita played by Mabel Normand. They provide some simple amusement...

Seemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man start following her with much enthusiasm. Two men at the...

Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover. Sennett looks quite dashing as the big game hunter. He's...

The movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon as Helen climbs down the ladder, her parents, played...

Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local...

Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy...

Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her...

An over the top parody film

A Mack Sennett directed spoof of murder mysteries.

This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features...

This Andy Clyde short, in which Andy plays second fiddle to a bad performance by the usually reliable Wade Boteler, finds Boteler (as Bert) courting...

Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.

Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along with her mother Kate Bruce. She steals some money...

A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the...

This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand,...

Fred Mace plays a businessman with two secretaries. He gets playful with the second secretary, Mabel Normand. His wife, Alice Davenport walks in on...

A group of tourists spend too long checking out the Indian Arts and Crafts at the station and miss their train. While waiting, Normand in a picture...

Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a...

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

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

Wrestling Swordfish is a 1931 American short adventure film produced by Mack Sennett. In 1932, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (Novelty) at...

Hello, Mabel (also known as On a Busy Wire) is a 1914 American short silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett.

In 1915-16, San Diego's Balboa Park was the scene of an exposition to mark completion of the Panama Canal. This film takes us through the exposition:...

Sennett's studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are...

Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When an annoying party guest persuades Mabel to dance...

The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé.

Marjorie Beebe is a saloon singer, and Frank Eastman is the piano player and her boyfriend. He's got a roving eye, and she's making a play for the...

The short is a domestic comedy starring Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud. It begins with the husband berating his wife for being fat. Later, you...

When the story begins, a newly married couple (Franklin Pangborn and Marjorie Beebe) board a train for their honeymoon. Soon they make friends with...