Silent Film Movies

Maru-san and Kaku-san have grown complacent in the long peace. They go to view a military parade, but it turns into a comparison of the military stren...

Comical interaction between a little girl who comes to buy sweets and a candy man.

An early Gaumont short by an unknown director.

Early Gaumont short by an unknown director

An art student inherits a sum of money and has his fellow students over to celebrate. Chaos ensues.

A young woman sitting on a bench in the public park is annoyed by an old man sitting next to her and paying her persistent attention. Resenting this r...

Single shot of a man behind an x-ray screen on which his x-ray is clearly visible and moving. Another man sits on a chair to the right of the screen....

“The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a number of c...

The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.

Members of the photographic convention carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer “Lady Rowena”. Members o...

The film presents a drawing room meeting of enthusiastic puzzle workers. One gentleman has a new way of solving his puzzle. He puts a handkerchief ove...

This montage sequence, created by Slavko Vorkapich, is the only surviving footage from the 1929 film THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

A jungle travelogue looking for monkeys.

An early silent film, made before intertites became common (which is why very early silent films are narrated, at best). This was filmed in 1907 but r...

Rosalie and Léontine go to the theater and are swept away by big emotions.

The formal name of the peep show machine was the Mutoscope -- at least when it was manufactured by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, whic...

A triangular drama set in the factory region and wilderness of Lapland.

A short mute film about a lone man falling in love with a mannequin.

Two friends travel around the city of Reno, Nevada, and go skating at a nearby parking garage.