American Mutoscope And Biograph Company Movies

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

A series of short black and white films from director William K.L. Dickson which chronicle the adventures of Rip Van Winkle.

The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by...

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

This film with a highly offensive and racist title tells the story of Jose, a handsome young Mexican, who leaves his home in the Sierra Madre...

An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune,...

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and...

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play,...

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she...

Trilby lounges on a table with her shoes off, smoking, laughing, enjoying a piece of cake, and kissing her friend in a scene from the popular...

An African American family eats watermelons.

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

It is often said there is honor among thieves, but not so, as we shall see in this story. Two denizens of the underworld are seen in their squalid...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

Sandow and Peerless Annabelle were the first performers filmed by the new American Mutoscope Co. Annabelle reprised her Butterfly Dance and several...

Set during the American Civil War, the film focuses on a group of deserters and renegades who disguise themselves in Confederate uniforms to steal...

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.