Silent Film Movies

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB "Two portrait sketches and two nondescript."

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for...

An extremely clumsy man tries to clean a woman's house with disastrous results.

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall....

An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on...

A loyal German Shepherd dog follows his master to the French front in World War One.

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th...

A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged...

Referred as the actual first Mickey Mouse short. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a...

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco...

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

Romantic novelist George Sand's Mauprat as adapted by cinema visionary Jean Epstein. As a child, orphan Bernard de Mauprat was adopted by Tristan, a...

The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a...

A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's...

Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor...

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden...