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Broncho Billy, Outlaw

Broncho Billy, Outlaw

1914 • 11 min • United States of America
Carnos, a greaser, is sent to jail. He is a very refractory prisoner and swears to get even with the sheriff when he is liberated. On the day of the greaser's release, the sheriff had captured Broncho Billy, an outlaw, and was bringing him to justice, when he is suddenly pushed from his horse by the outlaw, and is left to wend his way across the plains afoot. Broncho Billy escapes on the sheriff's horse and unknowingly stops at the sheriff's home for food. Looking through a window he sees the greaser about to take the life of the sheriff's wife.
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

1914 • 10 min • United States of America
Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.
The Flaw in the Alibi

The Flaw in the Alibi

1914 • 10 min • United States of America
It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier.
The Phantom Violin

The Phantom Violin

1914 • 40 min • United States of America
Awakened during the night by a thunderstorm, a young Parisian woman hears a violin playing in the house next door. The following morning, she becomes acquainted with Ellis, the musician, and they fall in love. The happiness of their subsequent marriage is brief, however. The wife begins frequenting the cabaret where Ellis is employed as a violinist, accompanied by one of her husband's friends, and she becomes disenchanted with her marriage. Learning of his wife's infidelity, Ellis attempts to jump into the Seine, but he is restrained by the police. He returns, insane, to the cabaret, where he discovers a secret door leading to a crypt. There he dwells among the bones, and time passes.
Paid in Full

Paid in Full

1914 • 50 min • United States of America
Joe Brooks is taken advantage of by his employer, Captain Williams, who is a jealous former suitor of Joe's wife, Emma. Williams puts Joe in charge of the company's payroll money and has detectives set a trap for him.
Polishing Up

Polishing Up

1914 • 15 min • United States of America
When his wife goes away on vacation, a husband decides to use that time to do a little "playing around" and winds up at a resort hotel with two young girls. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is at the same hotel, planning a little "playing around" of her own.
Jane

Jane

1914 • 11 min • United States of America
Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a director, in order to sulk and give vent to her feelings.
The Conqueror

The Conqueror

1914 • 11 min • United States of America
Bess abhors the sinfulness of her brothers, who are crooks of the worst kind, so one day, while they are planning some villainy, she takes some money which one of the brothers had placed on the table, leaves the house and disappears as if the earth had engulfed her. Bess goes to a distant part of the city, and rents a furnished room from a kindly-faced old lady, resolved to start life anew in a different environment. She secures employment in a large shirt factory and by diligent attention to work, becomes forelady and assistant to Williams, the owner of the factory. Jack, the weakling, completely worn out by the life he has led, is in the last stages of tuberculosis, when he accidentally meets Bess, and through helping him, her other brother, Frank, finds out where she is employed, and going to Williams, her employer, plays the "worried brother" part and tells him how Bess took the money and ran away from home.
The Flying Freight's Captive

The Flying Freight's Captive

1914 • 12 min • United States of America
Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train. The crooks are captured, Helen's pluck wins Billy's heart, but, as usual, she refuses, with an eye on next week's adventure.
For Ireland's Sake

For Ireland's Sake

1914 • 39 min • Ireland
Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
The Stolen Engine

The Stolen Engine

1914 • 12 min • United States of America
A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen climbs into the cab of a locomotive standing on a siding and takes up the chase.
A Joke on Jane

A Joke on Jane

1914 • 13 min
The roots of modern television situatuation comedy can be seen in this Beauty brand film. As American grew the Beauty brand was developed to feature actress Margarita Fisher. Her husband, Haryy Pollard, directed the Beauty films and occasionally acted in them. He plays the husband in this one.
Children of the Feud

Children of the Feud

1914 • 20 min • United States of America
Jabez Morton goes to a nearby field to drive some cows to an upper pasture. He pulls down part of Carson Belfield's pasture fence so as to drive the cows through. Belfield, who is sitting on a stump smoking his pipe watching his two children, Walton and Hulda, rises angrily and, rifle in hand, goes toward Jabez.
Robinet è Geloso

Robinet è Geloso

1914 • 8 min
Robinet is jealous, with comedic results.
The Lost Mail Sack

The Lost Mail Sack

1914 • 18 min • United States of America
A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack and rifle the contents. Morrison, postmaster at Bell, has been systematically robbing the mails and benefits by the mail sack's disappearance. Mary Gates, daughter of an engineer, supplies the Post Office inspectors with the first clue. The detectives blunder, however, and arrest Billy, Mary's sweetheart. Chance leads them on the trail of the tramps. The hobos are arrested after a desperate battle. Later, as the result of Mary's clever work, Morrison is brought to bay, while Billy wins his freedom.
The Real Miss Loveleigh

The Real Miss Loveleigh

1914 • 27 min • United States of America
When Leo Whitney started writing the "advice to the lovesick" column in one of the great daily papers, under the name of Evelyn Loveleigh, little did he know that the love god would take possession of him.
The Black Diamond Express

The Black Diamond Express

1914 • 12 min • United States of America
When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Helen aids his escape on the outgoing Black Diamond Express.
A Good Little Devil

A Good Little Devil

1914 • 50 min • United States of America
A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
Snegurochka

Snegurochka

1914 • 31 min • Russia
Based on Alexander Ostrovsky's "The Snow Maiden"
The Brand

The Brand

1914 • 20 min • United States of America
Mary's lot. always hard, becomes doubly so upon her father's death. Desiring to re-marry, the girl's stepmother conspires to get her out of the way.
A Flirt's Mistake

A Flirt's Mistake

1914 • 8 min • United States of America
When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
'Cross the Mexican Line

'Cross the Mexican Line

1914 • 20 min • United States of America
Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to the hacienda of the Mexican officer, Senor Paranze, where his wounds are dressed by Senora Paranze. The latter falls in love with the American when he defends her from her brutal husband.
Chip of the Flying U

Chip of the Flying U

1914 • 20 min • United States of America
When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as a cowboy on the Flying "U" ranch he restyles himself as Chip and discovers who he really is through a series of adventures.
Zip, the Dodger

Zip, the Dodger

1914 • 11 min • United States of America
Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady under a parasol he gets a friend to substitute for him while he pretends to be a young man of leisure. Trouble starts when the girl happens along later and discovers what Zip's job really is.