Chaplin's Little Tramp defies physics, tickles your funny bone and warms your heart in his earliest short films including The Rink, The Pawnshop, The Vagabond, The Bank and Easy Street.... more
With the most expressive deadpan face imaginable, Buster dominated silent comedy with raw physicality and indomitable courage, performing and inventing impossible death defying stunts on locomotives,... more
The story of a shopgirl who uses her sex appeal to flummox the rich and wealthy. All the girls at Waltham's Department Store are obsessed with a story in Cosmopolitan about IT - an undefinable... more
Lloyd Hamilton was a great comedian. He was a huge success with the public and was admired by his fellow comedians including Chaplin & Keaton. Unfortunately, the majority of his films are not... more
Ben Model lends his talents to 9 more soundtracks for 9 more recovered silent films from the early silent era, recovered from 16mm prints that outlived their 35mm counterparts. Includes Why Wild Men... more
This collection features nine silent short films from the '20s, recovered miraculously from 16mm prints and given new scores on piano and organ by Ben Model. Includes The Lost Laugh (Wallace Lupino.... more
Marcel Perez. Perez was one of the first wave of silent-film comedy stars, a real clown who lit up screens with gags and theaters with laughs in the first two decades of the 20th century. This... more
Harry Watson Jr. Whether working in an arcade or begging for a free meal, Musty Suffer is up to typical no good in these nostalgic silent short films from that forgotten series. Includes Showing Some... more
The unmistakable silent film legend both acted in and directed these early film treasures. Includes Shoulder Arms (1918/36 min.), The Champion (1915/33 min.), The Kid (1921/50 min.), Easy Street... more
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin. In what would be considered the peak of Keaton's slapstick comedy powers, the legendary actor plays a hopeless newspaper cameraman in Manhattan who is... more
One of the greatest female silent screen stars, Alice Howell brought her own unique slapstick humor and her persona as a naive working-glass girl to each of these 12 comedy shorts. Includes Shot In... more
In 1913, the Thomas Edison Company made talking pictures using a sound-on-cylinder system called The Kinetophone. These pioneering sound movies were shown in theatres for about a year, and featured... more
Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Eddie Cline. From heralded classics to little-known gems, this collection of Keaton's laugh-out-loud funny work in short comedies covers a career that changed... more
This 5th volume of rare silent films draws on the archive of film collector and accompanist Jon C. Mirsalis. In "Lorraine of the Lions", Patsy Ruth Miller is a female Tarzan in a tale that... more
Next to Buster Keaton, Lupino Lane was the finest acrobatic comedian in the history of film. Remembered today mainly as a stage performer and for the hugely successful ME & MY GIRL, it's perhaps... more
A tailor's apprentice who can barely speak a word around women has, secretly, written a "how to" book for young men titled "The Secret of Making Love" with tips on how to romance young women. In a... more
"John Bunny - Film's First King of Comedy" is a documentary by Tony Susnick about the movies' first comedy superstar. Before there was a Hollywood, sound movies and Charlie Chaplin, Bunny was the... more
"Remembered today for his fussy persona in Hollywood sound films such as "Top Hat" (1935) and "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1942), Edward Everett Horton is not anyone's idea of a silent slapstick comedian... more
Buster Keaton. In Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928/70 min), a gruff riverboat captain is perpetually disappointed by his effete son, who struggles to fit in on the boat and pull his own weight. In College... more
Why be good when it's so much more thrilling to be bad? asked the ad campaign for this slightly naughty and oh-so-knowing silent-movie celebration of the flapper era. The star of Flaming Youth -... more
Max Linder. This French master of silent film comedy paved the way for such icons as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. Includes The Three Must-Get-Theres (Bull Montana. 1922/58 min.),... more
Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale. In this silent masterpiece, Chaplin, as the Tramp, in his first full-length comedy, travels to the Arctic on a futile gold-prospecting expedition that nearly causes him... more