Orphans of the Storm (1921)
D.W. Griffith's epic of two sisters, one blind, swept up in the French Revolution, starring Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
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D.W. Griffith's epic of two sisters, one blind, swept up in the French Revolution, starring Lillian and Dorothy Gish.
French newlywed Angel keeps learning American ways in Los Angeles, and this episode brings in a goat dog. A 1961 CBS sitcom.
Ira Gershwin lounges in a patio chair by the pool at the Gershwin home. George's dog Tony wanders through in this 1936 home movie.
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Alice runs a secret club that plots to rid the town of dog catchers. Walt Disney's 1924 live-action and animation mashup.
Angel, a French bride in Los Angeles, persuades her husband to coach a neighborhood Little League. A 1961 sitcom episode.
A 1930 comedy short from directors Zion Myers and Jules White, whose shorts used trained dogs as actors.
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A 1921 short with a boy, a bear and a dog. A story of unlikely friends.
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A 1930 comedy short from directors Zion Myers and Jules White, whose shorts used trained dogs as actors.
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A woman's hard life ends in a heroic rescue. A 1929 Shanghai silent with Chinese and English intertitles.
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
Lon Chaney as a scientist who becomes a circus clown who gets slapped. Victor Sjöström's 1924 tragic spectacle.
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
John Ford's epic of laying the transcontinental railroad: tracks, buffalo and Abraham Lincoln. A 1925 silent.
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
All-ages features: animal stories, kids adventures, classic family films
Mark Twain's raft-riding runaway on screen in this 1920 silent.
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy share the screen years before they became a team. Stan has a dog, a robbery and bad luck.
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Jack Holt rides a 1925 Western, with Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Noah Beery Sr. in the saddle. Dust, horses and desperadoes.
A short fragment of Vincente Minnelli, Alma Hearst, and George Gershwin's dog Tony out in the Hollywood Hills. Tony stands on muddy ground.
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Mary Pickford is a rich girl turned scullery drudge when her father's fortune vanishes. A 1917 silent.
Bobby loses his dog and finds him in Telezonia, where residents teach him directory assistance, party lines and phone manners. Puppets, 1949.
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Mary Pickford plays both the golden-curled boy who becomes a lord and his mother. A 1921 silent.
A gang of street kids teams up with the FBI to rescue a kidnapped scientist, their leader's father. Chapter one of twelve.
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Anna Sewell's horse tells his own story, from pampered colt to hard-working cab horse. A 1921 silent.
The East Side Kids fix up a haunted honeymoon house next door to Nazi spies, with a young Ava Gardner and Bela Lugosi.
A NASA Kids Science News segment on how astronauts' bodies change in space, from body fluids and bones to the heart and muscles.
Stan Laurel spoofs the Wild West in this 1924 comedy short.
The very first Rudolph cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer for Montgomery Ward, the store whose ad writer created Rudolph.
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A war profiteer wants to marry the colonel's daughter, but she likes a mountain boy raising a colt for the Kentucky Futurity. Silent drama, 1926.
Jean Painlevé's science film shows an experimental treatment of a hemorrhage in a dog. Early French scientific cinema, graphic by nature.
The Angry German Kid heads out on adventures with his friends in this live-action and animated comedy series.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D. W. Griffith's 1921 melodrama set during the French Revolution. Billy Bitzer shot it.
Buster Brown wants a cruller, Bridget says no, and Buster hauls over a stepladder anyway. A 1904 comic short.
Horses, buggies, bicycles and early automobiles share the road in this silent 1920s Agriculture Department film. A trip that took forever gets quicker.
Steam locomotives parade at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's 1927 centennial pageant, The Fair of the Iron Horse. Silent.
Elephants, camels and floats parade through a circus tent, then a horse race takes over. Edison's 1901 view of the Forepaugh and Sells Bros. circus.
The famous 1906 Market Street ride, filmed for Hale's Tours by the Miles Brothers, starting at their studio at 1139 Market. San Francisco before the quake.
A sidewalk crowd in Albany watches fourteen pieces of horse-drawn fire equipment race past. A 1901 view of horsepower at work.
Thousands leave the grandstand at the Longchamps military review and surge across the parade grounds toward Paris. A very busy 1900 crowd scene.
A horse-drawn Broadway streetcar rolls through Union Square while pedestrians cross and passengers hop on and off. New York in 1903, at horse speed.
Ten pieces of fire apparatus thunder toward the camera, some pulled by three horses abreast. Buffalo's firefighters at full gallop in 1897.
Hundreds of carriages and Parisian buses pass near the main entrance on the Champs-Elysees. Paris traffic in 1900, with horses at the wheel.
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp makes his first screen appearance, getting in the way of a camera crew at a kids' car race.
A man in a three-piece suit cheers his horse on at an imaginary race, jumping up and down. A 1900 pantomime of betting fever.
A four-horse stagecoach delivers a mail pouch to a rural post office. A slice of 1903 mail delivery.
A combined dog and bologna machine grinds away in a factory where each frankfurter is labeled by breed. Edwin S. Porter's 1904 gag.
A rural postal exchange: a boy waits by a post box in front of a two-story house in Maryland as mail is handed over. A 1903 Biograph slice of country life.
The crowd, the start and the finish of a 1897 harness race at Charter Oak Park, with the fastest trotters of the day on the track.
The whole Newark fire department, chief in front, gallops past with foam-flecked horses. Thrilling in 1896.
Prize horses from all over North America parade along the Esplanade of the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.
Four-horse coaches and carriages, packed with tourists, line up at the Hotel Vendome in San Jose for the trip to Lick Observatory.
Well-known horsewomen and their mounts ride before the judges' stand at the Open Air Horse Show, Manhattan Field, New York, 1899.
A boxer dog sits on a stage and punches a bag like a pro. Edwin S. Porter films Miss Laura Comstock's bag-punching dog.
A Labor Day parade marches through bunting-draped streets, probably in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1906. Banners, bands and townsfolk.
A woman and her mother bring a little dog home from a dog shelter in Gennevilliers. A 1908 Pathé comedy.
A busy street scene on Lower Broadway in New York City, filmed in 1902. Horses, streetcars and a crowd on the move.
Lillian and Dorothy Gish star in D. W. Griffith's 1921 melodrama, Orphans of the Storm.
Ten stylish horses and carts trot past the judges at the Monmouth County horse show, 1897. High-stepping, polished and proud.
A fire chief's buggy leads engines, hose carts and ladder trucks galloping toward the camera. Harrisburg's finest, filmed by Edison in 1896.