J. Searle Dawley
1907
College Chums
While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman…
1907
Laughing Gas
A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subwa…
1907
The Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her fam…
1907
The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love with each other, but when the trainer…
1908
A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.
1908
Cupid’s Pranks
After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of p…
1908
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a t…
1908
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.
1909
Bluebeard
Fatima and Sister Anne have seemed alive in their minds, from the moment Fatima, in her mo…
1909
Hansel and Gretel
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
1909
The Prince and the Pauper
Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelgan…
1910
A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own m…
A Daughter of the Mines
A Romeo and Juliet story of the rivalry between two miners, one rich and one poor, whose s…
1910
An Unselfish Love
Unsuccessful in his suit for Mabel, John goes to farm in western Canada. Mabel's father co…
1910
Frankenstein
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead c…
Michael Strogoff
A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with…
The Life of a Salmon
We are first shown the picturesque canyon of Capilano, near Vancouver, B.C. As the camera…
1910
The Song That Reached His Heart
A Story of the Lumber Regions of Western Canada: a lumberjack remember his past while he l…
A Modern Cinderella
This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements — a…
1911
A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers
The story itself deals with the primitive instinct of mankind; to desire was to take at st…
Aida
Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egy…
The Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar is a possibly lost 1911 American silent docudrama film that portra…
The Ransom of Red Chief
After reading a newspaper article regarding old Tightwad's rise in the world, Bill and Jim…
Who Gets the Order
Rival salesmen use every means of transportation to be the first to land that big order.
1912
A Chase Across the Continent
Between Two Fires
Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah
Survives only incomplete, but it nicely evokes the lost mining West. The steep hillsides o…
1912
Jack and the Beanstalk
We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack me…
1912
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Silent film drama of the famous incident..
1912
The Lord and the Peasant
In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted pe…
1912
The Relief of Lucknow
The story of the siege and eventual relief of British soldiers garrisoned at Lucknow durin…
1913
A Lady of Quality
News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex exten…
An Hour Before Dawn
A female detective goes undercover as a chorus girl to solve the murder of a scientist who…
1913
Bill's Sweetheart
Bill, who is with a bunch of cowboys on their way to town, picks up from the wreckage of a…
1913
Caprice
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is d…