Movies : Short

Charlie is walking in the park. A girl leaves a seaman on one bench and joins Charlie on another. The seaman wakes up. He and Charlie stage a brick fight. Policemen get hit and arrest both men. During an ensuing fight on the dock the policemen, the seaman, Charlie and the girl wind up in the water....

The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait......

Charlie has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. There are further difficulties with frequent scene changes......

Charlie pretends to be a dentist though he is only his assistant. When a patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia, the rest is classic slapstick....

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He'll meet a pretty girl in the park, pretending to be a fancy ambassador, despite the jealousy of her fiancee....

Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader......

A lot of D.W. Griffith's work was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, James Fenimore and William Shakespeare. Such is the case with 'As it is in Life'. He may not have been reflecting the times in this short film, but he had a romantic idea based on his heroes that he wanted to convey on scre...

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel. Director: Otis Turner Writers: L. Frank Baum (novel), Otis Turner (scenario) Stars: Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth and Euge...

Frankenstein, a young medical students, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fianc e but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster. A fight ensues but the monster, seeing himself in a mir...

In ancient Athens, four young lovers escape into the woods. Meanwhile, tradesmen rehearse a play. All of them suffer from the shenanigans of mischievous fairies....