Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

An office boy at Biograph learns how to operate a camera, and when he spies the boss kissing his secretary, he records their illicit act.

In the next scene all that is left of the cabin is a smoldering ruin. A company of trappers come rapidly out of the forest and discover the bodies of...

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

A combination of the story of Goldlocks and the Three Bears with the true story of how Teddy Roosevelt spared a bear cub after killing its mother...

A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the...

A mountaineer loads a shipment of moonshine whiskey onto his horse-cart, then goes to make a delivery. After he leaves, a revenue agent comes to the...

Hazel, the miller's daughter, is courted by a country boy and a sophisticated city boy. Her father favors the country boy, but she elopes with the...

A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is...

Several men take watermelons from a melon patch, and are pursued.

A policeman has breakfast with his wife and children, and then prepares for the day's work. While on his beat, he finds and helps a lost child....

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

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...

In this color-tinted short, we first see a close-up of a red rose, perfectly formed. Then, we see the rose held by a young woman who is wearing a...

Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts, and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of...

Two boys and their dog set out to play a series of practical jokes on their neighbors. After they have caused several disruptions, the police are...

A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a...

A man who has placed a personal advertisement for a prospective wife goes to wait at the meeting place that he designated. Soon a woman comes in...

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...

Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.

Only women are at a resort, until one man arrives. He woos a pretty young widow, and wins her.

Two black men are stealing chickens and get chased by the white farmers.

As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then stand in a position where they cannot be seen from...

A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they are only inside for a brief time, their daughter...

Two burglars have just entered an elegant-looking home, but before they can proceed, the woman of the house enters the room. One of the burglars...

A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.

Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack....

A jealous husband arrives in the office of Hawkshaw, a private detective. The husband is certain that his wife is being unfaithful, and he wants the...

Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria...

Showing the entire catastrophe resulting from the attempt of Mr. Gorham to ride around the loop the loop on a bicycle. While the enormous crowd...

Based loosely on the once-popular nursery rhyme. A fair is in progress, with refreshments, entertainment, and other activities. As the rest of the...

Kathryn Osterman was a legitimate actress who worked occasionally in the movies during the first decade and a half of the 20th century. This looks...

A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.

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

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...

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

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 man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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

A very clever and interesting picture. A family group composed of grandpa, mamma and several children are seen about a library table. One of the...

A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by...

Directed by Edwin S. Porter and/or Wallace McCutcheon Sr.

Facing a stationary camera, sitting at a desk, a man works busily. Posters of burlesque queens are on the wall behind him. A single woman, followed...

Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of...

A romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman's daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the...

Crime drama involving an Irish couple immigrating to America

A woman and her guests frantically search for her missing child, who is eventually found playing with her dog in the kennel.

The camera is high above Manhattan near the top of the Times Building, pointing down.

With the family of Mr. Phlipp there is employed that wrecker of domestic serenity, a pretty French maid, whose trim figure and cherry lips are simply...

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the...

A deranged man who believes he is Napoleon escapes the asylum and leads his keepers on a wild chase.

Hulda is a maiden fair to look upon. Her artless rustic simplicity, rivaling Hebe's gorgeous radiance, phlogisticates the susceptible hearts of the...

A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography,...

The camera is high above Manhattan near the top of the Times Building, pointing down.

Two noblemen fight over a lady.

A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father...