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Narrative
see all genres ›As short story is to novel, the narrative short is to the fiction feature: a storytelling miniature that can deliver maximum potency and detail within a minimalist expanse.
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Captain Kidd's Kids
After a popular run making shorts as the Chaplin-esque “Lonesome Luke,” Harold Lloyd had just started making films in what he termed his “glasses” character, the bespectacled milquetoast we remember him for, when he starred in this early classic. His hero wakes up hungover from his first and last “big...Start your free trial to watch
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Capture of Boer Battery by the British
The Edison Manufacturing Company had already staged war scenes of the Spanish-American War and the Filipino Insurgency. By the outbreak of the Boer War, shooting battle re-enactments had become routine. In this one, the Gordon Highlanders prove victorious as they charge a Boer cannon and the camera....Start your free trial to watch
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A Car-Tune Portrait
A well-heeled lion conductor introduces a musical performance to correct the misapprehension that “we of the cartoon animal kingdom are lacking in the finer sensibility.” Alas, all those bows and horns prove too much temptation for his orchestra to resist in this delightful Fleisher Studios cartoon.Start your free trial to watch
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Cartoon Factory
In 1919, Ko-Ko the Clown first emerged from the inkwell to grapple with his creator, Max Fleischer. Combining live action with animation, this highly imaginative series of 130 films inspired Walt Disney's Alice comedies, among others. This film was found in the same collection as the French original print of I FETCH THE...Start your free trial to watch
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Casey at the Bat
Things were different in the early days of baseball. Or were they? In this fragment from 1899, the titular Casey gets a bad call from the umpire and the batter decides that fisticuffs are necessary (or, put differently, the batsman decides to batter the umpire).Start your free trial to watch
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Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie (Charles Chaplin), a cafe waiter, impersonates a foreign dignitary at a garden party in amorous pursuit of a society debutante (Mabel Normand). His true identity is revealed when the society girl and a party of her friends go on a "slumming" expedition at the cafe where Charlie waits tables....Start your free trial to watch
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Caught in the Rain
Charlie flirts with a married lady (Alice Davenport) in a park, only to be warned off by Ambrose (Mack Swain), her outraged husband. Returning to his hotel after a stop at the local saloon, the drunken Charlie is rebuffed in his pursuit of another attractive young woman. CAUGHT IN THE RAIN is an important...Start your free trial to watch
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The Center of the Web
A counterfeiting gang is foiled by police, and the action-chase takes up almost all of the second reel. The real stars of the chase are the agile and determined police dogs. This is a rather conservative example of late-1914 film style with only a couple of interesting camera set-ups and compositions, few...Start your free trial to watch
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The Chain
Phil Mulloy’s contribution to a series of animated films commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights takes a characteristically dark view of the human condition. The discovery of a treasure map precipitates individual fisticuffs, declarations of war and all-out genocide. Lustrous chalk figures and symbolically...Start your free trial to watch
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The Chemist
The action in THE CHEMIST is fast and furious, with sight gags abounding, perhaps partly due to the influence of the director, Al Christie, who was Mack Sennett's great rival in the silent era. This was the only time that Keaton and Christie worked together. There is also an early appearance by Don (later Donald) McBride. As...Start your free trial to watch
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Un chien andalou
Made in 1929, UN CHIEN ANDALOU (AN ANDALUSIAN DOG) is regarded as the first film produced purely from within the Surrealist movement, and a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between Salvador Dali and acclaimed director Luis Buñuel, this tale of unfulfilled desire opens...Start your free trial to watch
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A Child's Metaphysics
The animation may be simple but A CHILD’S METAPHYSICS nonetheless contemplates complex concepts like language acquisition and acculturation. In less than five minutes, Koji Yamamura strikes upon several memorable images of education, some hopeful and others not. Children’s heads are spread flat like maps,...Start your free trial to watch
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Choose Your Weapons
Returning from war something less than a hero ("he saved a second lieutenant from fainting"), our humble protagonist Bobby Vernon nonetheless gets sucked into some very farcical post-combat politics involving Mittle-European royalty, Teutonic ruffians, forced marriage, much sword-fighting and mass...Start your free trial to watch