Behind The Screen - 1916

Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 13 November 1916 (USA)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell
Also Known As (AKA)
Behind the Screen USA (original title)
Bakom kulisserna Sweden
Carlitos no Estúdio Brazil
Chaplin a filmstúdióban Hungary (imdb display title)
Chaplin i filmatelieret Denmark
Charlot fait du ciné France
Charlot machiniste Belgium (French title)
Charlot, actor de cine Spain (reissue title)
Charlot, artista de cine Spain (reissue title)
Charlot, debuta en el cine Spain (reissue title)
Charlot, entre bastidores Spain (reissue title)
Charlot, tramoyista Spain (reissue title)
Charlot, tramoyista de cine Spain (imdb display title)
Derrière les coulisses Belgium (French title)
Detrás de la pantalla Spain
Dietro lo schermo Italy
Hinter der Leinwand Germany
Kulissimies näyttelijänä Finland
Le machiniste héberlué Belgium (French title)
På filmateljen Sweden
The Pride of Hollywood USA (alternative title)
Valkokankaan takana Finland
Filming Locations: Lone Star Studio - 1751 Glendale Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Three movies are being shot simultaneously and Charlie is an overworked scene shifter. The foreman is waited on hand and foot until all the shifters but Charlie go on strike. A girl looking for work pretends to be a man and helps Charlie. Charlie discovers her gender and falls in love with her. The foreman thinks they are homosexual and in the ensuing fight they become involved in a long pie throwing scene from one of the movies in production. The frustrated workers dynamite the studio

Poor Daddy - 1929

Director: Yang Xiaozhong
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: Traditional Chinese & English
A 1929 B&W silent comedy from Shanghai, describing a vindictive funnyman's efforts to get back at his cheating wife, as aided by his smarter and more moralistic young son. B&W, Silent, with original Chinese and English intertitles.

One Week - 1920

Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 1 September 1920 (USA)
Filming Locations: Congregational Sunday School, Los Angeles, California, USA
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writers: Buster Keaton (screenplay), Buster Keaton (story)
Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely and Joe Roberts
Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts.
This was Buster Keaton's first film appearance without Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle.
No models were used. All of the stunts were done with the full-sized house as seen on-screen.
After two more appearances in Keaton's shorts, Sybil Seely was replaced as leading lady by Virginia Fox. However, Buster asked her back for The Boat (1921) with the idea of combining it with One Week into a four reel feature. But this never came to pass.
Continuity: When Buster climbs onto the roof, the ladder is leaning against the front of the house, but when he climbs back down, it's leaning against the side of the house.
Continuity: The piano changes between when it is delivered (flat back) and when Buster tires to bring it into the house (typical uptight piano back).

One Is Business, the Other Crime - 1912

Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 25 April 1912 (USA)
Filming Locations: California, USA
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writer: George Hennessy
Stars: Charles West, Dorothy Bernard and Edwin August
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured a gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidently discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme . . .

Officer Henderson - 1913

Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 12 March 1913 (USA)
This 1913 film from Solax is a bit broader than the comedies that usually came out of that studio -- perhaps they were feeling the pressure from Mack Sennett at Keystone. It's certainly much more straightforward and realistic-looking with none of the dazzling stuntwork or editing that Keystone excelled in, but is a pleasant, polite little comedy for the period.
The idea of this little drag comedy is that a couple of husky cops are told to dress up as women to try and catch some purse snatchers. The title character, Officer Henderson does so, making a very dainty target in the process. But after he goes off duty and hangs the outfit up in the closet for the next day's work, his wife comes home from vacation....
Drag actors were just about respectable in this period. The premiere man in the field was Julian Eltinge, and women used to ask for beauty tips from him. The theater named for him still stands on 42nd Street in New York. Not far behind was Bothwell Browne, whose act consisted of dressing in men's and women's attire, and when he was dressed up as a man, he was likely to pick a fight. By the late twenties the drag craze had passed, but it comes back every once in a while.

Number, Please? - 1920

Country: USA
Language: English (intertitles)
Release Date: 26 December 1920 (USA)
Filming Locations: Amusement Park, Venice Beach, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
Directors: Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Writer: H.M. Walker (titles by)
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Roy Brooks
While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.

Never Weaken - 1921

Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 22 October 1921 (USA)
Filming Locations: Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer
Writers: Hal Roach (story), Sam Taylor (story)
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis and Roy Brooks
Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor "cures", thereby building a reputation. When he hears that his girl is marrying another, he decides to commit suicide and spends the bulk of the film in thrilling, failed attempts.

Neighbors - 1920

Country: USA
Language: English (intertitles)
Release Date: 22 December 1920 (USA)
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writers: Buster Keaton (screenplay), Buster Keaton (story)
Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox and Joe Roberts
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings

Mabel's Dramatic Career - 1913

Country: USA
Language:English
Release Date: 8 September 1913 (USA)
Director: Mack Sennett
Stars: Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Mack Sennett
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.

Manslaughter - 1922

Country: USA
Release Date: 24 September 1922 (USA)
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan and Lois Wilson
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia causes the death of motorcylce policeman and is prosecuted by her fiance Daniel who describes in lurid detail the downfall of Rome. While she's in prison she reforms and Daniel becomes a wasted alocholic.