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Max: Jockey for Love

Max: Jockey for Love

1913 • 12 min
Max meets the Countess Duvienne in a very distressing moment, for she has just learned that her jockey will be unable to ride her horse, the favorite for the owner's stakes. In that irresistible way of his, Max volunteers to ride in the jockey's stead, the countess thanks him but cannot accept his offer, because of his excessive weight. The gallant Max, nothing daunted, decides to reduce. After running a mile with a forty-pound dumbbell, he looks like a wet rag, but goes gamely to a Turkish bath. This treatment brings Max down to weight, and mounted on the countess' horse. Max fights every stride of the tight race, hut wins, not only the race, but the countess as well.
The Unwelcome Guest

The Unwelcome Guest

1913 • 17 min • United States of America
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper. She and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk with them).
Over the Back Fence

Over the Back Fence

1913 • 14 min • United States of America
Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do with each other. The young leads come up with a plan in this pleasant Edison comedy.
Chelsea 7750

Chelsea 7750

1913 • 40 min • United States of America
The Trail of Cards

The Trail of Cards

1913 • 15 min • United States of America
In a bustling little coast town a blustering man, who poses as a sea captain, and a trig U.S. Revenue officer, are in love with the same girl.
A Little Hero

A Little Hero

1913 • 4 min • United States of America
Mabel has a canary bird, a tiny pet dog and a cat. She goes out, and the cat goes after the canary. Doggie hears the racket and takes in the situation. Knowing he is no match for Tabbie he runs as fast as his little legs will carry him to a kennel where he tells his troubles to three big collies, who run back with him. They secure entrance to the house through a basement window, and arrive in time to save the bird's life. Tabby runs away, and an exciting chase follows. When Mabel comes home and sees the overturned bird cage and the canary's tall feathers palled out she thinks her little doggie has chased the cat away, and hugs her hero.
The Werewolf

The Werewolf

1913 • 18 min • United States of America
An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance. This film is presumed lost.
The Sheriff of Yavapai County

The Sheriff of Yavapai County

1913 • 10 min • United States of America
Big "Bud" O'Neill, the sheriff of Yavapai County, is in love with Nellie Bowen, daughter of a wealthy rancher.
The Black Ball; or, The Mysterious Sisters

The Black Ball; or, The Mysterious Sisters

1913 • 39 min • Germany
Two sisters get a letter from their third sister just after coming from the third sister's funeral. It informs them that a nobleman has ruined her life and is responsible for her death...
Brennan of the Moor

Brennan of the Moor

1913 • 28 min • United States of America
The film carries the slogan: ‘He Stole From the Rich to Give to the Poor’. It is a story of the ‘nobleman-bandit’, Brennan O'Malley, who is captured and imprisoned, but an attempt to drown him through flooding his cell fails. Recaptured after his escape from prison, he overwhelms a soldier and escapes again. He then holds up Lord Hastings and changes into his clothes. He escapes through a secret passage with Betty, Lady Lorrequer whom he had earlier rescued and with whom he had fallen in love. The couple cross a chasm with the aid of a human chain to elude Lord Hastings' troop of soldiers. In the pursuit, Hastings falls into the sea and is killed, while Brennan and Betty escape by ship.
The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

1913 • 43 min • Italy
Framed by scenes of Shakespeare himself telling the story to his friends, this is a three-reel adaptation of the Bard of Avon's magical late-period romance about Leontes, a jealous king who banishes his daughter out of fear that she might not be his child.
When Love Kills

When Love Kills

1913 • 41 min • Sweden
After a harsh argument between her and her father, a young girl with artistic talent leaves home for a new life.
Dick Whittington and His Cat

Dick Whittington and His Cat

1913 • 45 min • United States of America
Dick, a young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. At night he dreams of the capital. The next day he leaves his country home to see his fortune in London. He fails to find work at first and is almost starving when a wealthy sea-merchant takes him in as a cook's help. The cook takes an instant dislike to him and tortures him mercilessly. His garret is full of rats and he often goes without food. One day, a man on the street takes him for a beer and gives him a coin, which he uses to buy a cat.
The Female Detective

The Female Detective

1913 • 10 min • United States of America
The False Order

The False Order

1913 • 11 min • United States of America
The sensational crux of jealous revenge in "The False Order" is a head-on collision of two enormous locomotives. A realistic effect that heavily discounts any stage device ever materialized to thrill.
Mother Love vs Gold

Mother Love vs Gold

1913 • 10 min • United States of America
A pair of precious loafers in a mining town learn from one of their "kidney" that Dick Mackey's partner, Bill Bryson, has died and that his gold dust is cached in Dick's cabin. They get sober and conclude to rob Mackey, but find that he is too quick on "the draw," and give it up.
The Range Law

The Range Law

1913 • 12 min • United States of America
Ted, the foreman of "The Diamond S. Ranch" is in love with Dora, Dad's daughter. Tafe is the leader of a band of desperate characters that have been terrifying the neighborhood for some time. He sees Dora and immediately decides to try and make an impression upon her.
The Man in the White Cloak

The Man in the White Cloak

1913 • 9 min • Denmark
FRAGMENT | An apparition appears when the threat of foreclosure looms over the family estate. Solicitor Bang is a rich man with financial power over a dowager baroness and her estate. However, Bang also wants power over the baroness’ daughter Lucy, whose heart belongs to the family doctor Sperling. Bang threatens to foreclose the estate if Lucy doesn’t marry him. The night before the auction, a ghost appears to Doctor Sperling and leads him to a chest in the basement. But is it a coffer or coffin? (Stumfilm.dk)
Just a Shabby Doll

Just a Shabby Doll

1913 • 15 min • United States of America
A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).
Religion and Gun Practice

Religion and Gun Practice

1913 • 28 min • United States of America
Wesley Judell, as a missionary, finds a futile but puzzling field for work in the far, wild west.
Raja Harishchandra

Raja Harishchandra

1913 • 40 min • India
Revolves around the noble and righteous king, Harishchandra, who first sacrifices his kingdom, followed by his wife and eventually his children to honor his promise to the sage Vishwamitra.
The Mannequin

The Mannequin

1913 • 9 min • Sweden
Lili is a young and courageous woman. She does things that create confusion. She suddenly begin to act in a film's plot in a movie theater, or take a mannequin from a shop.
The Law and the Outlaw

The Law and the Outlaw

1913 • 50 min • United States of America
Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo Watson. Ruth, the daughter of the ranch owner, one day sees Dakota's display of horsemanship, and the admiration thus aroused soon ripens into love, much against the protest of the family. Ruth's love for Dakota is increased by his heroic deed when he rescues her from the malignant attentions of a rushing steer whose anger is aroused by the flowing red handkerchief about her neck. Dakota, who is riding ahead of the cowboys on a round-up expedition, catches sight of the steer heading for Ruth, and, spurring his broncho into a break-neck speed, reaches the side of the steer, leaps upon its hack, and, fastening his muscular arms on the frenzied beast's horns, brings him to the ground. In the midst of the ovation given him by the cowboys, Dakota is nabbed by Sheriff Mathers, who begins to march him back to the Deer Lodge Penitentiary.
Löjen och tårar

Löjen och tårar

1913 • 33 min
A young woman is wrongfully accused of a crime. Adapted from the 1862 play by Johan Jolin.