Winsor McCay, the famous cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald, presents his idea of drawing pictures in a way that will make them move. All he has to do is make four thousand pen drawings, and he will accomplish this in a months time. His creation becomes one of the earliest animated films. The premise is
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
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
