Movies

Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming...

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

An exasperated traffic cop resigns after failing to control speeding drivers.

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

Krazy Kat tries to serenade Ignatz Mouse.

A woman buys a new pair of shoes under the watchful eye of her husband. She takes them much too small for her and suffers all day long.

A woman tries to lose weight.

Two men plan to invite their friends, so they buy a turkey and ask Olaf to cook it. Olaf is distracted by the prospect of going to the dance this...

Workman Dennis O'Shay finds a woman's lost purse and returns it to her, hoping it may lead to a new romance.

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go to the circus and have some fun at the expense of a spectator.

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued...

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and...

A man tries an hair tonic to regrow his hair. It works too well.

Documentary looking at Orson Welles and the production of the film CITIZEN KANE fifty years ago, considering the furore that accompanied it and the...

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in...

A Hearst Metrotone prohibition newsreel.

A newlywed in love finds it hard to leave his wife for work.