Albert E. Smith

After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting...

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life. The man expresses great love and desire for her, but...

More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror movie favourite: the chamber of...

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

"Down goes the Spanish flag, and up floats the Stars and Stripes. Down falls the symbol of tyranny and oppression that has ruled in the new world for...

The Astor Battery became famous after the Spanish-American war and these young men are on display in this Edison short, which was shot on Saturday,...

This picture shows the Columbia crossing the line, leading the Shamrock by about 1/2 mile. The Shamrock is plainly seen in the distance and she later...

15 chapter adventure serial: 1. The Evil Spell 2. The Murder Mood 3. Plucked from Peril 4. The Fatal Choice 5. Hands of Horror 6. Springing the Trap...

An adventure serial released in 1918

An adventure serial released in 1918

This picture shows several buildings which were wrecked and also shows a rear view of this hotel, which is on the highest point of land in Galveston,...

At the first news of the disast by cyclone and tidal wave that devastated Galveston on Saturday, September 8th, 1900, we equipped a party of...

This is the building in which so many of the poor orphans met their death. The place is completely dismantled. In addition to the orphanage is shown...

This building and machinery supplied the electric power and electric light for the entire city of Galveston, including the car system. The building,...

This picture shows the remains of one of the docks, several freight cars being piled one upon the other, while the most interesting part of the...

In a charming dining room a very attractive young lady is seen seated at the table, evidently waiting for the caller who is to share a quiet little...

During the terrific storm all of the light craft along the dock front was lifted out of the water and washed up into the streets, many of them being...

Although we are led to believe that the ancient alchemists were all powerful, this picture somewhat reverses the order of things...

This is a new adventure in which our friend, Mr. Hooligan, appears in an entirely new capacity. On a stage a professor of magic is performing some...

A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and...

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...

Shows the efficiency of modern life-saving methods and apparatus now in use by the fire departments. Shows the front of a building burning and two...

In the center of the ring the trainer forms a pile of baskets many feet in height. Greyhounds leap in rapid succession, forming a graceful arch and...

Persons who have visited the "Hub," no doubt carried away with vivid recollections of Boston's famous system of Underground Transportation and this...

The uncle of John Davis, killed on the mountains, leaves a will directing that Davis and his cousin, Hawke Morgan, shall be joint guardians of his...

15 chapter adventure serial: 1. The Escape 2. Fighting Back 3. Within the Noose 4. Tearing Through 5. Blotted Out 6. The Hidden Blow 7. Dynamite Doom...

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...

He sits asleep at a bare table; old witch enters, raps three times, then disappears; cavalier sees table spread for a sumptuous repast....

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating...

Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of...

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

A countryman goes to see a spiritualist and is frightened by what he sees.

Based on the play The Shaughraun, this is the story of Robert Ffolliat, a young Irish lad, who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony...

Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.

The Midnight Cabaret is a short 1923 American comedy starring Larry Semon and featuring Oliver Hardy.

A newlywed invites his old poker friend to meet his wife. But his friend has a plan to use their Ouiji board to recoup poker debt that he is owed.

The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western...

The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western...

The Humpty Dumpty Circus is the first animated short film created in stop-motion technique. It features a circus with acrobats and animals in motion.

The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.

When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give...

A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, is also a master thief who baffles the Parisian...

Jimmy Aubrey and Oliver Hardy comedy produced by Vitagraph features the screen debut of Kathleen Myers.

Jimmy Aubrey lets the kids in the alley shoot arrows at him. After he grows tired of this, he treats them like satchels to get them out of his way. A...

James J. Jeffries throwing the medicine ball. An absolutely perfect picture of the champion heavyweight of the world.

A pretty and natural picture in which the principal actors are two tiny tots who are evidently not a bit afraid of the briny deep as they splash...

It's what it says on the label: a panoramic shot of East Galveston, right after the Storm of the Century came through, ripping up trees and...

A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission.

A cartoonist defies reality when he draws objects that become three-dimensional after he lifts them off his sketch pad.

Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel.

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.

A repairman falls in love with a blacksmith's daughter, who's having trouble with their greedy landlord, and helps them get one over on him.

Notorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the prominent Squire Rattray to take over and...

Notorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the prominent Squire Rattray to take over and...

Linda Catherton, a poor small town girl in search of a wealthy suitor, meets Roland Bland, a man of notorious reputation, at the wedding of her...

Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I,...

Miss Olivia Martindale, at a dinner, announces: "There is no longer any romance in American life," and immediately arouses a storm of protest.

Businessman John Lawson is seriously injured in an accident, his wife Ruth travels from their New England village to New York to find a job that will...

Jeanne Baldwin, Leonard Staunton, Alan Fitzhugh and Jack Baldwin are guided on a tour of underground dens in Chinatown by Hop Lee. During their trip,...

A chemist who lives with his daughter has invented an explosive which he calls "IT." A masked band seeks to steal the explosive from him, and has...

The roommates live in a boarding house run by a strict landlady. When the landlady arrives to collect the rent, the men hide behind a trick door. ...

Saucy slapstick comic short featuring mishaps and misunderstandings with the titled ladies.

Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and...

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.

Accused of theft by Mabel Arthur's brother, Dick Halpin accepts the blame and runs away to join the Navy to save Mabel from humiliation. Later he is...

in this domestic drama, Jimmie’s wife Jeanne falls for Proctor Maddox, a socialist and male feminist, and wants a divorce from her husband. To...

Jimmy, at a fashionable beach, uses binoculars to watch women and falls for a beautiful nursemaid after slipping on a banana peel. His clumsy...

Lupin is the lover of Joan of the Apaches. She is attracted by Paul de Gafilet, nobleman and sculptor. She visits him in his studio and resolves to...

Silent Western about a gal fighting the elements and villains for her man!

Peter Stalton, retiring as a bank cashier, is anxious that his nephew Richard Twing should succeed him. The directors, however, appoint Arthur...

Man in roman costume carves figure of girl in doorway. As he finishes, the statue comes to life. The man expresses great love and desire for her, but...

Larry Semon comedy.

The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides...

Vitagraph’s Battle of Santiago Bay (1898) blended real Spanish–American War footage with tabletop trickery. Albert E. Smith’s...

Vitagraph’s Battle of Santiago Bay (1898) blended real Spanish–American War footage with tabletop trickery. Albert E. Smith’s...

Stanley Deane, raised by a British governor, defends mill workers and falls for Alice, daughter of mill owner Amos Buckingham.

Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is supporting Eben Sprague for a seat in the State...

In the summer of 1914, Alsatian maiden Louise de Villars is attacked by two German soldiers. Hugh Brown, a visiting American, comes to her rescue and...

A beautiful and ambitious young woman leaves her boyfriend for a famous sculptor, and later--after she models for his statue "Miss Ambition"--marries...

In the artist's studio, he asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to...

As the above title indicates, the scene does not take place in an ordinary restaurant, but one in which all natural rules of order and gravitation...

Florence is a little milliner who shares a room in "Brick Dust Row" with Ella, a fellow worker. It is all the home she has and the girls have to...

Amy Spencer is engaged to artist Heath Desmond, a nature-worshipper who shuns organized religion. James Bartlett, a minister in love with Amy,...