Movies: American Mutoscope Biograph
- 1909
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
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On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who wor...
- 1909
The Lonely Villa (1909)
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A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happe...
- 1908
The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
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On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing....
- 1910
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
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During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, cl...
- 1909
The Curtain Pole (1909)
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An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, ...
- 1911
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
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A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery....
- 1908
The Invisible Fluid (1908)
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Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He would have procured some of ...
- 1908
The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
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Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
- 1896
Sandow (1896)
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Strong-man Eugene Sandow flexes his muscles and strikes a few poses in front of a black background. This was a short film shot by William K.L. Dickson for the American Mutoscope Company and is not the 1894 Edison film shot at the Black Maria....
- 1910
Ramona (1910)
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Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness am...
- 1912
The Sunbeam (1912)
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Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and...
- 1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
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Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening...
- 1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
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A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout....
- 1911
His Trust (1911)
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A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust....
- 1909
The Mended Lute (1909)
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In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves....
- 1910
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
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In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughte...
- 1896
Exit of Rip and the Dwarf (1896)
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A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle....
- 1909
The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)
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A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, s...
- 1908
The Call of the Wild (1908)
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George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized ...
- 1913
An Indian's Loyalty (1913)
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Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved...