All Films

The Dancer

1916 • 33 min • United States of America

Johnny Madden travels to the city and falls in love with Capella. His mother is heartbroken that her son has flown the nest and that the woman he has flown to is a common actress. She had always intended that he would marry their neighbor, Daisy Brown. Mrs. Madden begins secretly putting the screws to Capella to make her abandon Johnny so that he will come back to the farm and Daisy.

The Secret of the Swamp

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

The Sign of the Poppy

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Luke's Movie Muddle

1916 • 10 min • United States of America

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.

The Ocean Waif

1916 • 39 min • United States of America

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.

The Right to Be Happy

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Considered to be lost.

Hold Fast!

1916 • 15 min • United States of America

Musty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.

Luke, Rank Impersonator

1916 • 11 min • United States of America

Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.

Into the Primitive

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

American heiress Jennie Leslie, the Honorable Cecil Winthrope, and the alcoholic Thomas Blake are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. At first, Jennie sticks close to Cecil, preferring his upper-class British breeding to Thomas' man-of-the-people approach.

Luke's Lost Lamb

1916 • 11 min • United States of America

A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.

The Soul of Kura San

1916 • 50 min

When his fiancée commits suicide after being used by an American artist, a Japanese art dealer seeks to get vengeance by seducing the artist's wife.

The Peril of the Rails

1916 • 12 min • United States of America

Apparent carelessness causes Conductor Lawton and his train crew to be laid off for thirty days. A gang of car thieves, pursued by police, jump aboard a freight, and after a stiff combat, succeed in throwing the crew off the speeding train to the ground.

Dulcie's Adventure

1916 • 60 min • United States of America

Dulcie's once-aristocratic Southern family has fallen upon hard times, so her Aunt Netta decides to take her to California in search of a millionaire husband. While Dulcie pines for Harry, her sweetheart back home, Netta triumphantly arranges an engagement with a wealthy suitor. On her wedding day, preparing to sacrifice herself for her family, Dulcie discovers that her fiance's millions actually belong to other people when he is arrested at the altar on a bank robbing charge. Meanwhile, Harry, who has come West to get Dulcie back, arrives at the wedding just as the police interrupt it. He volunteers to take the arrested fiance's place, and Dulcie accepts his offer instantly.

Chestnuts

1916 • 2 min • United States of America

An early trickfilm created by Otto Messmer.

The Spell of the Yukon

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert Temple is rid of his only serious rival for Helen, whom he soon marries. Jim goes to Alaska, where he adopts Bob Adams, the son of a murdered friend, and then makes a fortune in a gold strike. After eighteen years in the Yukon, Jim returns to his hometown with Bob, who falls in love with Helen and Albert's daughter Dorothy. Because he so hates Albert, however, Jim refuses to consent to a marriage between Bob and Dorothy until Helen tells him that Albert is not the young woman's father. In reality, Dorothy is Jim's own daughter, and when he learns this, Jim quickly changes his mind about the marriage.

The People vs. John Doe

1916 • 60 min • United States of America

A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.

Cinders of Love

1916 • 22 min • United States of America

Chester Conklin, as the fire chief, clashes with Slim Summerville, police chief.

A Son of the Immortals

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering the General.

Atta Boy's Last Race

1916 • 50 min

Young Lois Brandon is about to have her home foreclosed if she doesn't come up with some money. She enters her horse, Atta Boy, in a big-money race, hoping the win will enable her to pay off the mortgage and save her home.

Big Tremaine

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

John spies his girlfriend embracing his brother. Stunned, John deposits the family's money and leaves the country. Years later he returns to find his brother dead, the plantation in ruins, and that he is suspected of stealing the money.

The Perilous Swing

1916 • 12 min • United States of America

Helen is enjoying a ride on her horse, "Hazard," after her day's work, when news comes that "Red" Purdy and his aides are escaping after making a big haul. When the automobile in which they are escaping breaks down they take to a handcar. Helen pursues them down the track while the Sheriff and his posse set out to head them off on a short cut.

The Habit of Happiness

1916 • 44 min • United States of America

Douglas Fairbanks stars as "Sunny" Wiggins, who believes in eternal optimism and good spirits. This places Wiggins at odds with his staid, wealthy family, who decide to get even when he blithely invites a group of derelicts to his sister's coming-out party.

The End of the Rainbow

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.

The Eye of the Night

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

William H. Thompson plays a likeable old lighthouse keeper who must contend with his less likeable fellow villagers. One of Thompson's acts of kindness is to bless the "scandalous" romance between hero and heroine.