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Short
see all genres ›Short films are exactly what their name implies: they're shorter than a feature! They can be as brief as a handful of seconds or they can approach as much as a half-hour (or more). Genres like silent comedy and avant-garde film thrive in the short format.
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Genres / Short
SUB-GENRES · Actuality · Documentary · Ephemera · Narrative · Non-Narrative · Performance · Trick
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The Adventures of Dollie
D.W. Griffith's cinematic debut was already laced with dramatic irony, dynamic staging and deft parallel editing. The film opens with mother and daughter enjoying a summer day by the water. A gypsy merchant disrupts their idyll, first offering items for sale and then trying to make off with the woman's...Start your free trial to watch
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Africa, F.O.B.
Featuring Monty Banks and William Blaisdell. This film features actors performing in blackface. Fandor does not condone racist stereotyping, but blackface is nonetheless a significant aspect of American history in general and film history specifically. Early cinema was deeply rooted in vaudeville, where blackface was a...Start your free trial to watch
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After the Ball
Georges Méliès' fantasy films and his re-enactments of current events shared an important quality: both offered audiences images they could not have seen outside the cinema. There's something of this in the appeal of a pornographic or erotic film as well. Featuring a scenario so trite it has become timeless (a woman removes...Start your free trial to watch
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Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane
A smoldering car wreck moves two brothers to ask their mother about a significant difference in their upbringings. The Zellners’ knotty dialogue touches upon Pilgrims, foreskins, European sexual preferences and smallpox, a welter of neurosis and shame. If the script seems unlikely, an autobiographical...Start your free trial to watch
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The Agony of Byzance
An unusual period-piece from legendary French director Louis Feuillade, set near the end of the Byzantine Empire, THE AGONY OF BYZANCE chronicles the assault on (and the subsequent fall of) the city of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks. Costume drama at its finest!Start your free trial to watch
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Ain't She Sweet
19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the...Start your free trial to watch
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Aladin, or the Wonderful Lamp
An extravaganza of early special effects, the Pathé ALADIN (lacking the more common double "d") delights in the story’s magical transformations. Trick shots and striking color tinting accent the elastic reality that comes with the wonderful lamp. The fantasia only lasts a single reel but that's time enough...Start your free trial to watch
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Alfred Eisenstaedt: Photographer
This is the behind-the-scenes look at the character and the style of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century, the premier LIFE magazine photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt. This film reveals a rare view of "Eisey" as he returns to Germany to photograph his homeland for his book,...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Chops the Suey
A highly unusual Alice Comedy, featuring devices familiar from other cartoon series. The opening and closing are similar to those in the OUT OF THE INKWELL cartoons which the Fleischer Studio was producing at the same time, with the main characters emerging from, and disappearing back into, an ink bottle....Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Guy Films a "Phonoscène"
Alice Guy-Blanché frames the making of a “phonoscène” (a forerunner to sound film) as a kind of Russian nesting doll, with a well-lit scene taking place within the darkened activity of its mechanical reproduction. The camera stays in the shadows, slowly panning as the crew readies itself to film a courtly...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice in the Jungle
This short is a reworking of ALICE HUNTING IN AFRICA, which had been produced in 1924 with the original Alice, Virginia Davis. ALICE HUNTING IN AFRICA had received only limited release, and Disney's distributor asked him to produce this new version, with Virginia's original scenes combined with new...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Rattled by Rats
Several of the Alice Comedies, including this one, featured crowds of nondescript mice or rats. These rats bear scant resemblance to the later Mickey Mouse, but this particular short was loosely remade in 1929 as a Mickey Mouse cartoon, WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY. Here it's Alice who goes away, leaving Julius in...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice Solves the Puzzle
Little Margie Gay, who would go on to play Alice in more than half of the Alice Comedies, made her first appearance in ALICE SOLVES THE PUZZLE (The title introducing her was lettered by Ub Iwerks, who was not only the studio's lead animator but also its lettering specialist). And this short also marked the...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice the Jail Bird
In this offbeat entry, Alice and her friends steal a pie from a windowsill and wind up on the wrong side of the law. The sight of a Disney character in prison stripes may seem incongruous today, but in fact this film anticipates a Mickey Mouse short, THE CHAIN GANG, produced five years later. Note that...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice the Whaler
This entry in the Alice Comedies was released near the end of the series. In it we can see the fourth and last of the girls who played Alice, the relatively little-known child actress Lois Hardwick. Notice that Ub Iwerks' drawing style has matured by 1927, and now looks very different from that in the 1925...Start your free trial to watch
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Alice's Balloon Race
Reflecting the mid-1920s obsession with air travel, stunts and competition, this short pits Julius against Pete as more or less friendly rivals. By late 1925 Julius had as more or less friendly rivals. By late 1925 Julius had effectively replaced Alice as the main protagonist in these films. Here Alice,...Start your free trial to watch