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The Little Darling
This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position. Lillie Green, who keeps a boarding house, receives…
Une opération mouvementée
A man in the park gets into a fight with a nurse. One leg is broken, and he goes to a surgery, where it is sawed off. At this point the movie develops into a chase comedy.
Curing a Masher
Mr. Pest is a certain type of nuisance with whom you are all more or less familiar. A silly egotist with an exaggerated notion of his own importance, be believes that every woman he meets will fall an…
Cyclone Pete's Matrimony
An early silent short comedy directed by William Haddock.
Daddy's Double
This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.
Hank and Lank: Lifesavers
Hank and Lank: Lifesavers is a Silent Comedy short.
His New Lid
A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.
Im Wannseebad.
IMDb categorises this early German film as a documentary, but given its opening and closing shots, in which we see a small, buffoonish cameraman clowning around, it could also qualify as a comedy. The…
M. Myope chasse
French silent comedy.
The Land of Oz
The Emerald City in all its splendor with all the familiar characters so dear to the hearts of children - Little Dorothy, the scarecrow, the woodman, the cowardly lion, and the wizard continuing on th…
The Masquerade Cop
The Masquerade Cop is a silent Comedy
The Newly Born
A short silent comedy produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.
The Sanitarium
A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him.
The Tout's Remembrance
"Bullets" Brown, the hero of our story, is a rare track tout, and a true type or this particular parasite.
Wilful Peggy
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise…
Broncho Billy's Adventure
Fairfax, California, is the location used for this film, one of the earliest Broncho Billy films. Anderson includes his usual mix of comedy and drama as Broncho Billy gets caught in the middle of a fa…
Caught in the Act
A moving picture company is enacting a drama in the country, where an artist, thinking that the altercation is genuine, rescues the heroine. The picture company, finding that they are missing a heroin…
Gratis
Italian comedy short from 1911.
Lady Godiva
The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.
Max a un duel
Max, the celebrated fun maker, is shown in another of his amusing playlets. His fiancée, ere she marries him, insists that he prove himself a hero by fighting a duel. Max has difficulty in finding an…
Mixed Pets
Mixed Pets is an early Alice Guy Blaché comedy about misunderstandings that arise when a new husband refuses to buy his new wife a dog and the couples’ domestic help conceal the fact they are married…
Patouillard ordonnance par amour
Paul Bertho sees a beautiful woman entering a carriage and is struck dumb with love -- which, considering this is a silent movie, is no impediment. Her husband, however, is definitely an obstacle in t…
The Baron
A Mack Sennett comedy short for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Villain Foiled.
The Strategy of Ann
A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
The Villain Foiled
A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron.
Totò senz'acqua
Toto Without Water, a Italian comedy.
Zigoto plombier d'occasion
A French comedy short with Zigoto.
'Walk, -- You, Walk!'
The concept for Walk,—You, Walk! is as old as the battle of the sexes: When Rose’s date tries to get fresh, she walks out and teaches him a lesson, with the help of her sister. What makes this 1912 Ka…
A Comedy of Errors
A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, she attempts to shoo him away, but must hide him when her husband comes home unexpectedly.
A Cure for Pokeritis
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.