20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Captain Nemo and the Nautilus, in one of the first features shot with real underwater photography.
Silent slapstick shorts and features from Keaton, Chaplin, and Lloyd.
Silent slapstick shorts and features from Keaton, Chaplin, and Lloyd. Streaming 24 hours a day, synchronized to the second across all viewers worldwide.
The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 10 PRATFALL:
Captain Nemo and the Nautilus, in one of the first features shot with real underwater photography.
A story of cheat, deception and possibly even murder. A 1930 drama from Tiffany Pictures, directed by Phil Rosen.
Charlie works at a pawnshop and famously takes apart a customer's alarm clock.
A 1930 Chesterfield musical comedy romance with Alice Day and Johnnie Walker, from the days when everybody burst into song.
Chaplin spoofs the opera Carmen, with Edna Purviance as Carmen and Charlie as the lovesick soldier Darn Hosiery.
Music hall star Wee Georgie Wood leads a gang of kid troublemakers in this 1930 British comedy.
Charlie and his tailor boss crash a society party by pretending to be a count.
Department store chaos and a famous escalator chase in Chaplin's first Mutual comedy.
A sleepwalker, a sinister showman and a town of jagged painted shadows. The German Expressionist film that shaped horror.
Lon Chaney's Phantom haunts the Paris Opera. The unmasking scene still makes audiences jump.
Stan Laurel, before Oliver Hardy, stumbles through a Wild West town in this silent comedy.
Chaplin shows off his roller skating skills and wrecks a society rink party.
Charlie gets shanghaied onto a ship its owner plans to sink for the insurance money.
Chaplin is hired to push a man in a wheelchair and goes looking for trouble instead.
A park, a flirtation and a lake. Chaplin's Keystone short where everyone ends up in the water.
The first feature-length comedy: Marie Dressler, Chaplin and Mabel Normand in Mack Sennett's 1914 con-artist romp.
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp makes his first screen appearance, getting in the way of a camera crew at a kids' car race.
A tipsy Charlie comes home and battles his own house: the stairs, the rug and a fold-down bed. Nearly a one-man show.
Chaplin's very first film, as a smooth-talking swindler who runs afoul of the Keystone Kops.
Buster Keaton's Civil War masterpiece: Union spies steal his locomotive, so he steals it back. Some of the greatest stunts ever filmed.
Charlie crosses the Atlantic, finds love with Edna Purviance and can't afford dinner. One of his most beloved shorts.
Buster Keaton accidentally bombs a police parade, and the entire Los Angeles police force gives chase.
Chaplin and Mabel Normand swap partners and park-bench chaos in this Keystone farce, also known as Getting Acquainted.
The first film Chaplin shot as the Little Tramp: hotel lobby chaos and a pajama-clad Mabel Normand.
Charlie is an escaped convict who rescues a rich family and crashes their party, in his last Mutual film.
Charlie gets out of prison and finds the outside world even less friendly.
Fatty Arbuckle steps into the boxing ring, with Chaplin as the referee and the Keystone Kops close behind.
A compilation of Chaplin's 1914 Keystone shorts.
Essanay stitched this Chaplin comedy together from unfinished footage after he left the studio.
Stan Laurel spoofs Valentino's Blood and Sand as the bullfighter Rhubarb Vaselino.
Chaplin and Ford Sterling battle over a stolen umbrella and a lady stuck at a rain puddle.
Buster Keaton, a gang of counterfeiters and a house rigged with fake ghosts and collapsing stairs.
Chaplin plays a waiter who poses as a foreign dignitary to woo a society girl played by Mabel Normand.
Chaplin plays a jealous wife who storms a parade and wrecks a film shoot, all in six minutes.
A compilation of Chaplin's 1915 Essanay shorts.
Chaplin plays a rich gentleman who thinks his romance is over and tries to end it all, with very comic results.
Charlie is an overworked stagehand on a movie lot, in a pie-throwing satire of silent filmmaking.
Buster Keaton tells the same love story three times: Stone Age, ancient Rome and the Roaring Twenties.
Chaplin is hired to push a man in a wheelchair and goes looking for trouble instead.
Chaplin's first Essanay film: chaos on a movie set, with a young Gloria Swanson in a small role.
Harold Lloyd's last short: a lovestruck man, a skyscraper girder and some famous high-rise thrills.
Charlie is a hapless firefighter in a firehouse that would rather not fight fires.
The Our Gang kids and their families set off for a quiet Sunday picnic. It does not stay quiet.
Chaplin plays an actor fired from a film studio who sneaks back in disguised as a glamorous woman.
Harold Lloyd and Bebe Daniels in a 1919 Hal Roach silent comedy short.
Buster Keaton is mistaken for a wanted man and spends the film running from the law. A 1921 short.
Olive Thomas stars in this 1920 silent comedy about a jazz age young woman.
Charlie Chaplin runs a theater's backstage as a very unreliable property man. A 1914 short.
Charlie Chaplin's 1918 short promoting Liberty Bonds, staged as an allegory.
Charlie Chaplin is a drunk in a bar with an eye for the ladies. A 1914 Keystone short.
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp crashes a soapbox race and won't stay out of the camera's way. Keystone, 1914.
Buster Keaton plays the whole theater: orchestra, actors, audience. A 1921 trick-film comedy.
Buster Keaton plays the orchestra, the audience and the whole show, via trick photography. A 1921 short.
Buster Keaton plays a bookish student who tries every sport on campus to win a girl. Not a natural athlete, 1927.
Charlie Chaplin is up to romantic mischief in a park in this 1914 Keystone short.
Charlie Chaplin as a dentist's assistant with a tank of laughing gas. A 1914 short.
Mabel Normand plays a junk-shop girl dreaming of romance in this 1926 Hal Roach comedy, co-written by Stan Laurel.
Buster Keaton is a golfer who ends up in prison, with a gallows nearby. Mistaken identity at its darkest and funniest.
Buster Keaton helps a Native American tribe fight greedy oil barons. A 1922 short.
Chaplin and a dummy in a French-titled print of the 1914 Keystone short Mabel's Married Life.
Buster Keaton ends up married into a house full of domineering in-laws. A 1922 short.
Stan Laurel spoofs the Jekyll and Hyde story in this 1925 silent comedy short.
Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand and a mallet. A 1914 Keystone short about a love triangle that gets swung around.
Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle stumble home drunk in this 1914 Keystone comedy. Two husbands, two angry wives and a lot of falling down.
Buster Keaton plays the blacksmith's assistant in this 1922 short, where horseshoes and cars get the Keaton treatment.
Charlie Chaplin is the boarder the landlady dotes on, until the household turns on him. A 1914 Keystone short.
Larry Semon's slapstick spin on The Wizard of Oz, with Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman. 1925.
Buster Keaton builds a boat in his backyard, and the launch does not go well. A 1921 short with water everywhere.
Buster Keaton's 1928 riverboat comedy, with a cyclone finale among the most famous stunts in film.
Mabel Normand sells hot dogs at the racetrack with Charlie Chaplin on the scene. A 1914 Keystone short.
Charlie Chaplin and a piano, never a good combination. A 1914 Keystone short.
A barroom artist tells his tale of lost love, with Charlie Chaplin in a 1914 short.
Charlie Chaplin dreams himself a caveman in this 1914 Keystone short.
A wealthy young wife's poor inventor husband strikes it rich with the first elevator that stops level with the floor. Domestic comedy, 1918.
A prehistoric mailman and a rival suitor battle for Winnie Warclub's heart on Valentine's Day, in stop-motion mannequin comedy.
Bobby Bumps tricks his pal into a lodge initiation, then gets outsmarted and rescued. A 1916 silent cartoon.
Krazy Kat serenades Ignatz Mouse's window and gets a barrage of bricks in reply. A 1916 silent cartoon.
To win a bet, Bill proposes to a girl, then sails to China after her. A 1924 Universal adventure comedy full of revolution.
Annie Callahan and Maggie Murphy feud across the alley while their kids fall in love. An excerpt from a 1927 comedy.
A 1905 street-level view from Billy Bitzer's camera, titled 2 A.M. in the Subway. Late-night New York, in flickering black and white.
D. W. Griffith's 1908 Biograph short about an elopement gone calamitously wrong. Silent comedy at one-reel pace.
Alice Day stars in this 1927 silent comedy short.
A 1903 Billy Bitzer short whose title promises a frontier flirtation. Very early film, barely a minute of it, and made to be watched in a flash.
A 1909 screen version of Shakespeare's fairy comedy, starring Florence Turner. Silent Bard, enchanted forest included.
Buster Keaton's riverboat comedy, with a cyclone finale among the most famous stunts in film. 1928.
Buster Keaton plays a street photographer who falls for a girl at a newsreel office. Chasing her means chasing film.
Buster Brown and his dog Tige tease a balloon vendor near the Flatiron Building in this 1904 comic strip come to life.
An old gentleman fights his razor and loses his patience. Edison's 1900 gag is a comedy of facial expression, all in one shot.
A veiled woman on a park bench, a mustached man, and a prank. Biograph's 1903 romantic joke filmed on a painted stage.
A bearded peddler hawks his goods on a New York street, and a gesture turns into a fight. A staged 1900 comedy, with ethnic humor that is dated.
The camera pans slowly across the 1915 San Diego Exposition grounds from high above, taking in every spire and building.
Mazie lends her gold necklace to Nellie, who loses it, and her boyfriend Sam promises to replace it. A 1910 Biograph comedy of errors.
An 1896 short of a mother scrubbing a struggling child in a tub of suds. A staged gag of its day that leans on dated stereotypes.
Edwin S. Porter's 1903 railroad comedy opens at a grand station where a pretty girl in white waits on her trunk for a train. A parody of rail romance.
A 1904 Edison tour of a county fair: trained horses, sulky races and prize animals. The title uses period slang for country folk.
A lawyer sobs and hugs his client, and the prisoner picks his watch and chain. A 1906 Pathe comic short about courtroom sympathy.
Two watchers drink and smoke at a New York tenement wake while a widow weeps. A 1903 Biograph comedy with a dated, stereotyped view of slum life.
A man afraid of the flu microbe sprays everyone he meets, police included, until the angry mob chases him. A 1908 Pathe chase comedy.
Contractor Hiram goes for a glass of milk and is mistaken for a laborer by Sophia, while he thinks she is the maid. A 1910 mix-up comedy.
Two men insist on being polite to each other in a saloon, after the comic strip. Biograph's 1903 bit of courtesy turned into slapstick.
A dressmaker disassembles a dummy, and onlookers mistake his shadows for a brutal murder. A 1915 Mack Sennett comedy with Louise Fazenda.
King Ambrose picks a queen, and a young rival named Robin tries to steal her. A 1915 Keystone comedy of kings and mischief.
Ambrose gets fired by a garment factory owner and turns vengeful, with a kidnapping that goes wrong. A 1915 Keystone comedy.
A well-dressed couple order boiled eggs and Welsh rarebit in a fashionable cafe, and the food starts to misbehave. Edison's 1900 trick comedy.
An elderly widower takes rooms at a seaside boarding house and falls for the widow, but frets about his thinning hair. A 1912 romantic comedy.
Four men with toothaches wait at a dentist's, and when one has a tooth pulled, the rest try to run. A 1907 Pathe trick film.
A gust of wind sends Auntie sprawling over a stone wall, landing right on her bustle. An 1901 Edison trick comedy.
An early talkie newsroom crime drama with Robert Armstrong and a young Carole Lombard.
Buster Brown and his dog Tige cause trouble when a fancy gentleman stops to chat with Mama outside a hat shop. Pranks, 1904 style.
Buster Keaton plays a bookish scholar who has to turn athlete to win the girl. Stone Face meets track and field.
A Parisian couple falls for a cow's milk in the countryside, buys her, and tries to take her home to the apartment. The misadventures start immediately.
Charlie Chaplin in a 1915 Essanay comedy where a disguise changes everything. Skirts, mix-ups and Chaplin in character.
Charlie Chaplin takes a 1915 stroll through the park and meets pickpockets, sweethearts and sausages. Benches and bad behavior.
Charlie Chaplin trains a boxer, and himself, for a big fight in this 1915 comedy. Horseshoe gloves are not in the rules.
Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp wanders into a farm and a girl's trouble in this 1915 comedy. The sweet and sad one.
Charlie Chaplin in a 1914 Keystone comedy about a movie-studio hopeful. Film-making is the joke.
Monty Banks' train gags from his 1927 silent comedy Play Safe, boiled down to two reels of runaway rail chaos.
Five performers in evening dress put on an exaggerated cakewalk, one in a long overcoat. A 1903 vaudeville turn, with dated stage comedy.
Dreamy Dud steals a pipe and blows smoke rings. The smoke turns into a ghost that carries him to the moon. Wallace Carlson's 1915 cartoon.
Dud breaks his mother's bank to buy his girlfriend Maime an ice cream cone, gets punished, and runs away. Early animated trouble.
A guy mistaken for a pro racing driver keeps up the act to win the girl. Reginald Denny stars in this wacky 1927 silent comedy.
Felix the Cat visits Hollywood in this 1923 cartoon, where the film colony meets a cartoon cat.
Vaudeville duo Hart and DeMar play comic-strip favorites Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a stage bit of mischief.
A baker flings dough at a make-believe rat and the kitchen chaos takes off. Edwin S. Porter's trick-film comedy.
Clara Bow plays an American girl in France who tangles into a complicated romance with a young Frenchman, in this 1927 silent.
Florenz Ziegfeld's only film: a shopgirl dreams of the Follies, capped by an early Technicolor revue.