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Fatty and the Broadway Stars

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

A Bird's a Bird

1915 • 12 min • United States of America

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.

The Grass Widower

1915 • 9 min • Denmark

Meyer the merchant is having a grand old time while his wife is away at a seaside resort. He brushes off her requests for him to visit by fibbing about being busy at work. When Mrs. Meyer returns home unannounced to nurse her poor, overworked husband, she finds the house empty, as Meyer is out at a party. (stumfilm.dk)

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

1915 • 13 min • United States of America

When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.

The Girl of the Golden West

1915 • 45 min • United States of America

A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…

The Riddle of the Wooden Leg

1915 • 23 min • United States of America

Sauntry, secretary to John Graydon, the wealthy banker, commits many robberies in the city among the wealthy class, gaining a rather sinister reputation. He hides his tracks by placing a wooden leg on one of the good ones, thus leaving a print and a round mark. Graydon's diamond disappears and the chain to which it was tied is found by Limpy Fisher, a boy from the East Side, with a wooden leg.

Fickle Fatty's Fall

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

Fickle Fatty's Fall is a 1914 Comedy short.

The Unknown

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He expects money from England, but instead receives a cablegram stating his allowance has been stopped and that his uncle will have nothing further to do with him.

A Boy at the Throttle

1915 • 12 min • United States of America

Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open. The alarm goes out and Helen, stationed at Lone Point, is ordered to derail the runaway and thus prevent it from running head-on into the approaching passenger train. Fearing for his son's life, Layson phones Helen

Censorship and Its Absurdities

1915 • 5 min • United States of America

A satirical short produced to highlight the unreasonable extremes of local film censorship—a film so heavily censored that only the title cards remain!

Broncho Billy's Sentence

1915 • 16 min • United States of America

Billy commits a robbery but a preacher inspires him to have a change of heart.

The Girl Detective

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

A series of 2-reel thrillers in which a society girl has a position as a special investigator for the police and works on various cases where her unique talents can help to solve crimes. Each episode is complete in itself.

Alas and Alack

1915 • 13 min • United States of America

A fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.

The Cabaret Singer

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a cabaret singer. Ignorant of the fact that her beauty is a mask for a shallow mind, Randall makes her his wife.

By Might of His Right

1915 • 15 min

By Might of His Right premiered in December 1915. The comedy shows what happens when a boorish houseguest overstays his welcome. Henry’s brother-in-law takes to stealing his chair and cigarettes but the last straw comes when, in a display of boxing prowess, he knocks his host out cold.

When Love Took Wings

1915 • 15 min • United States of America

Three men in love with the same woman contend with each other and with her father, until one of them takes her on an airplane in an attempt to elope with her.

The Running Fight

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

Crooked banker Peter V. Wilkinson intentionally drives his own company into bankruptcy and puts the bank's deposits into a secret account he has set up using his daughter Leslie's name. A series of events occurs in which Leslie finds out what her father has done and sets out to get him to return all the money he has stolen.

Mästertjuven

1915 • 47 min

Engineer Gordon has made a new invention for the military and a master thief get the mission to steal the blueprints.

The Heights of Hazard

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

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

Behind the Screen

1915 • 13 min • United States of America

A look behind the scenes at Universal Studios in 1915.

He Wouldn't Stay Down

1915 • 14 min • United States of America

A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.

An Arizona Wooing

1915 • 12 min

The story concerns cowboy Tom Warner, who raises sheep on a cattle ranch owned by a man named Dixon, the father of his girlfriend Jean. Jean, meanwhile, is being menaced by a Mexican outlaw who wants to have his way with her. When Jean's father decides he no longer wants Tom to raise sheep on his ranch they quarrel, and Dixon later sends a gang of thuggish ranch hands to persuade Tom to see things his way.

The Ashcan, or Little Dick's First Adventure

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

The famous child detective Dick, with the collaboration of his stenographer, succeeds in uncovering a desperate character. But the little stenographer falls victim to the wiles of the villain's evil accomplices, and is locked by them under vile duress in a barrel of ashes, where she falls asleep.

The Railroad Raiders of '62

1915 • 12 min • United States of America

Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experiences during the Civil War, and how he lost his arm. The Civil War flashback sequences consist of archive footage from Kalem's Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911), rather than newly filmed footage.