Cartoon: Betty Boop in Making Stars, 1935
Making Stars is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film, starring Betty Boop. The short contains one of the earliest clear examples of the oriental riff that would become popular… Read more →
Cartoon: Rumors, 1943 – Private Snafu
Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World… Read more →
Hell’s Hinges, 1916
Hell’s Hinges is a 1916 American Western silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams. Directed by Charles Swickard, William S. Hart and Clifford Smith, and produced by Thomas… Read more →
The Driller Killer, 1979
The Driller Killer (also known as Driller Killer) is a 1979 American black comedy slasher film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Ferrara (credited as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi… Read more →
In the Land of the Head Hunters, 1914
In the Land of the Head Hunters (also called In the Land of the War Canoes) is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka’wakw peoples of the… Read more →
Creature from the Haunted Sea, 1961
Creature from the Haunted Sea is a 1961 horror comedy movie directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the movie is a parody of spy, gangster, and monster… Read more →
The Bat (1926 film)
The Bat is a 1926 American silent film based on the 1920 Broadway hit The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, directed by Roland West and starring Jack… Read more →
The Fighting American, 1924 with a spectacular aerial stunt
The Fighting American (also known as The Fighting Adventurer) is a surviving 1924 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by Tom Forman. The… Read more →
Frankenstein (1910 film)
Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios. It was written and directed by J. Searle Dawley. This 16-minute short film was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary… Read more →
Cartoon: Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land, 1931
Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land is a 1931 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising. The short was released on November 28, 1931, and stars Piggy…. Read more →
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The Violent Years, 1956
Report from the Aleutians, 1943 directed by John Huston
Go West, 1923 – weird animal-only short
Cartoon: Noveltoons – Naughty but Mice, 1947
The Mystic, 1925
A Romance of the Redwoods, 1917 directed by Cecil B. DeMille
The Beatniks, 1959
Steamboat Bill, Jr., 1928 with Buster Keaton
Bloodlust!, 1961
The Three Musketeers (1921 film)
Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster, 1955 starring Bela Lugosi
The Virginian (1914 film), directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Cartoon: Alice’s Wonderland, 1923 – Walt Disney
Cartoon: The Parrotville Fire Department, 1934
Resisting Enemy Interrogation, 1944
The Pay-Off, 1930 film
Sherlock Holmes (1922 film)
The Bronze Buckaroo, 1939 starring Black cowboy singer Herb Jeffries
Cartoon: Calvin and the Colonel – Sister Sue and the Police Captain, 1962
