All Films

Life's Harmony

1916 • 30 min • United States of America

Josiah Pringle, a benevolent old musician, who ekes out his livelihood by giving music lessons, after playing the organ for twenty years in the church of a little New England hamlet, must make way for a younger man, Gordon Howard, who comes from Boston. Faith Pringle, adopted by Josiah and his aged sister, Letitia, is leader of the choir, and when Pringle is replaced, she refuses to sing, but relents at Pringle's gentle insistence.

Lonesome Luke Lolls in Luxury

1916 • 10 min • United States of America

Luke, stranded on a desert island, becomes chief of the natives. When he pursues the affections of a pretty white girl, he runs afoul of her sweetheart and has to swim back home.

The Waiters' Ball

1916 • 20 min • United States of America

Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.

The Committee on Credentials

1916 • 30 min • United States of America

Gambler Ballrat Bob tries to halt Clem, a squatter, from gambling away all his money.

Luke's Washful Waiting

1916 • 10 min • United States of America

Hi-jinx at a fire in a Chinese laundry.

Cruel and Unusual

1916 • 17 min • United States of America

Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.

The Great Problem

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.

Luke, the Candy Cut-Up

1916 • 11 min • United States of America

Working as a pastry chef, Luke steals a watch from a customer, which results in a wild police chase throughout the store.

Two Men of Sandy Bar

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

John Oakhurst, a gentleman gambler, befriends Sandy Morton, who has dissipated his birthright through gambling and excessive drinking and dropped from his father's sight. Although Oakhurst soon takes Sandy's place in the affections of his father, he boards a train heading West and meets Pritchard, an alcoholic, and his wife, the Duchess. Pritchard is wanted by the law and Oakhurst helps him to escape detectives who are on his trail.

William Voss

1916 • 49 min • Germany

William Voss is a 1915 silent film written and directed by Rudolf Meinert.

My Lady's Slipper

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

In France during the reign of Louis XVI American naval officer Francis Burnham escapes from a British convict ship. He flees to Paris to see Benjamin Franklin only to find him away. At loose ends he becomes indebted to the Marquis de Tremignon who under threat of imprisonment involves him in an intrigue to compromise the Countess De Villars to force her into marriage. While unwillingly purloining one of her slippers the lady catches him, and they realize he had saved her at one time from highwaymen. After many contretemps, the Marquis is disgraced, and the Countess and Burnham are united.

Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

"Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge Winters' home attracts him, and he crouches on the fire-escape to watch it. He becomes interested in the Judge, in his pretty daughter Peggy, in her cousin Flo, in Flo's admirer, the Count, and in Bob Ewing, a struggling young lawyer.

Domestic Difficulties

1916 • 9 min • United States of America

Animation from the Mut and Jeff series is a bit crude in it's movement and it's wife with rolling pin humor but even now it's passably amusing.

Luke Lugs Luggage

1916 • 10 min • United States of America

As a baggage handler at a terminal, Luke is led on a merry chase by a billy goat.

The Traveling Salesman

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

A man traveling home for Christmas gets stuck in a small town and finds romance with a woman operating the telegraph.

The Innocence of Ruth

1916 • 59 min • United States of America

The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes her guardian. Ruth's winsome qualities gradually win Jimmy's heart. Meanwhile at a Charity Ball, Ruth meets Mr. Reynolds, who is contriving to ruin her virtue.

Lonesome Luke, Circus King

1916 • 10 min • United States of America

Luke opens a circus, but when local officials discover that his side-show attractions are fakes, trouble ensues.

Barriers of Society

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

When penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter. Harry Arnold, courting Martha, invites her out sailing and arranges to have the yacht wrecked near an uncharted island so that he can be alone with her until rescuers arrive. Meanwhile, without knowing Martha is on board, Westie secures a position on the yacht.

The Ships That Meet

1916 • 46 min • Sweden

The sailor John gets married and becomes a painting artist.

He Did and He Didn’t

1916 • 26 min • United States of America

A doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting childhood friend Jack is more than just a friend. Jack's intentions are honorable, but everything he does tends to show his actions in a suspicious light, especially when burglars invade the house and Jack and the wife are caught together in their nightclothes.

The Heritage of Hate

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

After watching her mother die gradually from a broken heart, Roberta, an illegitimate child, decides to seek vengeance from her father Bradley, who ran away before she was born. Bradley is wealthy now, and so Roberta secures a job as his secretary and schemes to ruin his financial empire.

Where Is My Treasure?

1916 • 38 min • Germany

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

Luke Pipes the Pippins

1916 • 10 min • United States of America

Luke runs a bunco booking agency.

Out of the Drifts

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Out of the Drifts is a 1916 silent romance film directed by J. Searle Dawley.