The Boutdebois Brothers 1908 streaming

The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played by Louise Glaum), co-owns and operates a combination saloon and dance hall called the Red Hen with her business partner, Slick Barney (played by Jack Richardson). Her little half-sister, Olive "Live" Sumner (played by Mildred Harris), who is crippled, lives with her and she makes every effort to protect the child. A tough, but good-hearted businesswoman, Mercedes shows a tender side at home with Live. Her partner, Slick, and a cowboy called the Heller (played by John Gilbert), who has a heart of gold, are both interested in Live....

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An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman....

My name is a “cockroach”. I was called that from childhood....

A chronological study of the view from a single window onto the skylight of Passaporta, a bookshop in Brussels. Shot over eighteen months and making extensive use of time-lapse filming. The work is underpinned by Siegfried Kracauer's assertion that we can never exhaust the field of view....

Jacob is a young student who awakens alone in the woods near an abandoned school building. After entering the school, his reality seemingly becomes unraveled after he is faced with the surreal horrors residing within the building....

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Two men compete over winning the heart of their common love interest....

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising from the barrel, rush out of the house and drench the youngster with water. The finish is very laughable....

Prestidigitation before the age of the pixel. Very lively stop motion and open shutter piece, all done in camera – but transferred to video for ease of viewing....

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A short film about a circus disaster produced by Charles Magnusson at Svenska Bio in 1912....

A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America....

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A short film about zombies made with dolls...

About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed....