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Buffalo Bill
The famous army scout in an exhibition of rifle shooting. A fine picture of the principal, and beautiful smoke effects.
The Barber Shop
“Interior of Barber Shop. Man comes in, takes off his coat; sits down, smokes; is handed a paper by attendant, who points out a joke; both laugh. Meantime the man in the chair is shaved and has his ha…
Untitled Kinetoscope Comedy
An 1895 British short black and white silent comedy film featuring two drunken men and a boy squabbling in a small bar.
Wash Day Trouble
“Film could do more than record and recreate; it could invent new stories. Comic incidents like this were improvised from the earliest days, and developed later into slapstick comedy.” 35mm subject pr…
Fun on the Clothesline
A 19th century wire-walker performs his stage act on a woman's clothesline. An early comedy by pioneer director Robert W. Paul.
New Pillow Fight
New Pillow Fight, also titled Daughters' Pillow Fight, is the name of a very early short comedy film, released in 1897. This scene shows four little girls indulging in a pillow fight. Eventually, the…
Paysans à Paris
A comedy skit with drinking and animal tricks.
Come Along, Do!
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the sec…
Sloper's Visit to Brighton
Short comedy
The Dairymaid's Revenge
The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, in which a put-upon dairymaid throws off the chains of patriarchal and class oppression—o…
The Congress of Nations
A magician steps upon the stage carrying a hoop covered with white paper. Then in quick succession the flags of Germany, Russia, Ireland, England and China are brought forth, and from each a soldier i…
Two Old Sports
A conversation between two gents perks up when the see a picture in a magazine. A 'facial' comedy by GA Smith.
Anna Held
Stage star Anna Held (1872-1918) riffs on her once-famous scene from the comedy Papa's Wife (1899-1901) featuring a naif getting tipsy on her first champagne, in this "photographic interview", filmed…
Kansas Saloon Smashers
A gilded saloon, with a fancy bar, forms the background. A nobby bartender with white coat and apron is dispensing drinks to customers. Behind him are polished plate glass mirrors. A comical Irishman…
Comedy Cake Walk
Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.
A Nigger in the Woodpile
This is a clever comedy production in several scenes. In the opening scene the hired man is complaining to Farmer Jones that the woodpile is being depleted by thieves. Farmer Jones decides to adopt dr…
A Rube Couple at a County Fair
The title of this early US film is something of a con really. Another rube couple had appeared in an entertaining movie set at Coney Island the previous year, and that film had been quite entertaining…
Waiting at the Church
1906 comedy film by Edwin S. Porter, based on a popular song of the same title.
Fights of Nations
The film is several vignettes of slap stick presentation of racial stereotypes. We are treated to murderous Mexicans, conniving Jews, brawling Irish, bloodthirsty Scots, an Indian, and even Uncle Sam.…
The Flat Dwellers: Or, The House of Too Much Trouble
Short comedy
The Masher
The "Masher" is a product of no particular time or place, but known everywhere, and least thought of where best known. The adventures and misadventures of one of this type as presented in this film ma…
A Comedy of Errors
Mr. Nearbright is busily engaged writing; consults his watch. His wife, accompanied by her "Ma" enters, attired for a journey, carrying small satchels. The husband rises, apparently delighted, and bid…
Mr. Jones at the Ball
Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his…
Nellie, the Beautiful Housemaid
Comedy short (only fragments remain at LoC)