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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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SUB-GENRES · Actuality · Documentary · Ephemera · Narrative · Non-Narrative · Performance · Trick
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Light is Calling
A scene from a deteriorating print of James Young's THE BELLS (from 1926) was optically printed and re-edited to Michael Gordon's seven minute musical composition. A meditation on the nature of random collisions. LIGHT IS CALLING is another remarkable selection from the Cinemad Almanac.Start your free trial to watch
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Light Work I
LIGHT WORK I is a haunting and impressionistic video that connects the industrial and medical transformations of the last century with the present day digital revolutions in music and movies and the implied demise of 16mm film. LIGHT WORK I sprung out of the immersive expanded cinema performance "Light Work Mood Disorder"...Start your free trial to watch
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Charles A. Lindbergh: Hero of the Air
On May 20-21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew alone non-stop from New York to Paris, in a single-engine plane without parachute or radio. With this feat, Lindbergh became perhaps the greatest hero of the decade. Fox Movietone's sound film record of Lindbergh's take-off was the first popular sensation of sound...Start your free trial to watch
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Line of Fire
In November of 1993, director Dominic Angerame was diagnosed with coronary arterial disease. A subsequent angiogram revealed that open heart surgery was necessary. The angiogram was filmed originally on 35mm motion picture film. Two years later, in March of 1995, his apartment burned down in the early morning hours. He was...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Billy's Triumph
The first of several “Little Billy” films produced by Mack Sennett starring Billy Jacobs as a pint-sized hellion, LITTLE BILLY’S TRIUMPH pioneers the boisterous terrain later taken up by OUR GANG. A couple of older bullies steal Billy’s ice cream money. Enterprising rascals, they reinvest in sock puppets...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Girl Next Door
The “Thanhouser Twins,” Marion and Madeline Fairbanks, are featured in this tragic drama with a moral lesson. Although limited by the constraints of one-reel storytelling, the scenario (the first by Philip Lonergan, the brother of story department head Lloyd Lonergan) is a well-rounded and engaging one....Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lambkins
In this Fleischer “Color Classic” a little boy whose mama thinks he's a “baby” who can't walk yet turns out to have a whole lot of secret abilities (and wildlife pals) when no one's looking. Separated from those furry friends once his family moves to the city, this baby boy is not pleased. With their fully automated apartment...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lamby
Riffing on "Little Red Riding Hood," this Dave Fleisher cartoon sends a wolf in disguise looking for his lunch amongst a town of unsuspecting innocents. The wolf proposes a baby contest, suggesting a “big prize to prettiest and healthiest baby (should be kind and tender),” where he settles on a stew with Little Lamby. The...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Soldier Who Became a God
The same mysterious ring of Émile Cohl’s THE MAGIC HOOP reappears here to bring to life a case of toy soldiers (ninety years ahead of TOY STORY). When one is left behind, a strange course of events leads him to a distant tribe. THE LITTLE SOLDIER WHO BECAME A GOD is easily one of the most surreal of Cohl’s...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Stranger
The Fleischer Studios revisit the "Ugly Duckling" story for this installment of the COLOR CLASSICS series. A non-aquatic bird tearfully drops her egg in a duck’s nest. Hatched, the little chick struggles to quack and waddle along with its siblings. The vibrant three-strip Technicolor animation comes alive...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Train Robbery
In this parody of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, Edwin S. Porter burlesqued his own landmark film by substituting children for adults and using a miniature railroad and playhouse as sets. The young robbers don't take money but candy and dolls. Perhaps unintentionally, this film supported the argument made by...Start your free trial to watch
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Lizzies of the Field
Ten years after Charlie Chaplin's debut, Mack Sennett produced LIZZIES OF THE FIELD. Sennett considered Del Lord, director of this manic gag fest, "the best" at the frantic, freewheeling style his studio was known for. The climactic road race was done full size as you see it, no models, no cheats or...Start your free trial to watch
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Loading a Boiler
Shipmates walk a ladder running down a tall boiler in this early Lumière short. Wittily framed so that the climbers scale the whole length of the frame, the composition contrasts the limber movement of the workers with the immobility of the grand machine.Start your free trial to watch
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The Lone Fisherman
THE LONE FISHERMAN was a role made popular by the actor James Moffit in the theatrical version of "Evangeline," one scene from which apparently served as the model for this film. The character, which appeared at various points throughout the production but does not exist in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's...Start your free trial to watch
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The Lone Game
The lone game is the battle against consumption. The film's three principal characters all contract tuberculosis and each struggles to overcome it in different ways. One of them makes the wrong choices and dies while the other two recover. The Edison studio sought to inform and instruct its audiences in this collaboration...Start your free trial to watch