The first film adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The short film clocks in at around 12 minutes and focuses more on the psychological angle of the monster's relationship with Frankenstein. The short film cuts a lot out of the story written by Mary Shelley. It also focuses less on the monster and more on Frankenstein,
The first film adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. This 15 minute long short film blazes through the story much faster than the more famous 1959 version, starring Charlton Heston. While it lacks the substance required to engage an audience in the 21st Century, it does still show
...for Alonzo there was an end to Hate... called death... A traveling circus features a man with no arms, named Alonzo (Chaney). Unknown to the rest of the circus troupe, or the circus master, is that he has the hots for the circus master's daughter, Nanon (Crawford), he in fact has arms, and that he
A towering city designed by the minds of the elites and built by the hands of the working class becomes an allegory for turn of the century industrialism and class discrimination. The city is turned upside down when the son of the city's mastermind leaves the lavish and easy going apex of the city for
Charlie Chaplin's famous "tramp" travels north, to the Yukon Klondike region of Canada, to try his hand at prospecting gold. As you would expect, his luck is not with him and he instead finds loneliness, unrequited love, and cooked boot as his only food source. Charlie Chaplin's "tramp" captured the audience of the time and
