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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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Genres / Short
SUB-GENRES · Actuality · Documentary · Ephemera · Narrative · Non-Narrative · Performance · Trick
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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
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Long Fliv the King
The legendary Leo McCarey directs Charley Chase and Martha Sleeper (along with Oliver Hardy and Max Davidson) in this remake of Harold Lloyd's HIS ROYAL SLYNESS. In this version, shifting the focus from the dupe to the catalyst, a princess has a day to find a husband or else her kingdom is lost!Start your free trial to watch
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Longhorns
LONGHORNS is cine-dance with a surrealist tang. There are no human figures in this early short from Hilary Harris, only a pair of Texas longhorns turning endless spirals in the tall reeds of a New York inlet. The strangeness of this scene abstracts the horns’ mesmerizing rotation, the better for Harris to explore the...Start your free trial to watch
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Lost Motion
LOST MOTION uses small cast metal figures, toy trains, decayed skyscrapers and other found objects to follow a man’s search for a mysterious woman. From an illegible note found on a dollhouse bed, through impossible landscapes, the man waits for her train which never arrives. His wanderings lead him to the other side of the...Start your free trial to watch
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lot 63, grave c
LOT 63, GRAVE C is a short documentary film about Meredith Hunter, the teenager who was killed by Hell’s Angels at the Rolling Stones’ notorious Altamont concert in 1969. Altamont was supposed to have been the west coast version of Woodstock, the huge peaceful rock festival that had happened in New York a few months earlier....Start your free trial to watch
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Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen
After a decade performing in and recording with the top hot jazz bands of New Orleans, Chicago and New York, legendary trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong moved to Los Angeles in 1930, and then toured Europe. Armstrong's work in this period remains a foundation stone in all of jazz history. These three...Start your free trial to watch
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Louis Martinetti
Luis (né Louis) Martinetti, of French Canadian background (born in Montreal), had been part of an acrobatic team with his two brothers before launching out on his own. At about this time, he was associated with Charles E. Blaney's A BAGGAGE CHECK (for which he did an acrobatic dance).Start your free trial to watch
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The Love Nest
Buster Keaton's final silent short before moving into features, THE LOVE NEST takes to the high seas for slapstick verging on tragedy. Buster leaves on a seasick voyage after being spurned by his usual leading lady, Virginia Fox. He soon finds himself aboard a whaling ship working for a tyrannical skipper who thinks nothing...Start your free trial to watch
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Love Nest on Wheels
LOVE NEST ON WHEELS was Buster Keaton's swan song for Educational Films Corporation of America (which was to go bust in 1939). Perhaps because of this, the film is full of family and friends. No fewer than three of Buster's family appear, as well as the ever-reliable Bud Jamison and Al St. John, his old...Start your free trial to watch
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Love Stories My Grandmother Tells
A portrait of Peggy Regler, the ninety year old paternal grandmother of filmmaker Dana Plays, reminiscing about her love affairs and significant relationships, her failed first marriage, the agreement she had to stay until the children were grown (but to see other lovers) which resulted in the true love...Start your free trial to watch