The Exploits of Elaine - 1914 (Chapter 9)

Country: USA
Language: English (intertitles)
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton
Writers: Charles W. Goddard (screenplay), Arthur B. Reeve (novel), Basil Dickey (screenplay) uncredited, George B. Seitz
Stars: Pearl White, Arnold Daly and Creighton Hale
Release Date: 29 December 1914 (USA)
Also known as: Las peripecias de Elena (Argentina)
Les mystères de New York (France)
Production Co: Wharton
Plot Keywords: Serial | Character Name In Title
Genres: Action
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994.
The Pathé Frères US company took over the Eclectic Film Company and renamed it Pathé Exchange Inc. in early 1915. This is why both the old Eclectic and Pathé Exchange Inc. are listed as original theatrical distributors for this title.
The novel of the same name by Arthur B. Reeve was published serially in newspapers while the film was playing in theaters. It was later published in book form.
Basil Dickey claimed to have written the screenplay with his brother in law Charles W. Goddard
The titles of the fourteen chapters are: 1. The Clutching Hand2. The Twilight Sleep3. The Vanishing Jewels4. The Frozen Safe5. The Poisoned Room6. The Vampire7. The Double Trap8. The Hidden Voice9. The Death Ray10. The Life Current11. The Hour of Three12. The Blood Crystals13. The Devil Worshippers14. The Reckoning
Favorite film of Tsar Nicholas II.
Elaine Dodge (White) is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure known only as the Clutching Hand, Elaine enlists the aid of Craig Kennedy to unmask the killer ... who is obviously an entrusted figure in the insurance company. The two sleuths get some help (of a sort) from Jameson, Taylor Dodge's bumbling but faithful secretary. Along the way, they have some hair's-breadth escapes and some bizarre adventures ... including a seance at which Elaine encounters a bodiless voice claiming to be Iko, the spirit of Taylor Dodge.

The Exploits of Elaine - 1914 (Chapter 3)

Country: USA
Language: English (intertitles)
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton
Writers: Charles W. Goddard (screenplay), Arthur B. Reeve (novel), Basil Dickey (screenplay) uncredited, George B. Seitz
Stars: Pearl White, Arnold Daly and Creighton Hale
Release Date: 29 December 1914 (USA)
Also known as: Las peripecias de Elena (Argentina)
Les mystères de New York (France)
Production Co: Wharton
Plot Keywords: Serial | Character Name In Title
Genres: Action
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994.
The Pathé Frères US company took over the Eclectic Film Company and renamed it Pathé Exchange Inc. in early 1915. This is why both the old Eclectic and Pathé Exchange Inc. are listed as original theatrical distributors for this title.
The novel of the same name by Arthur B. Reeve was published serially in newspapers while the film was playing in theaters. It was later published in book form.
Basil Dickey claimed to have written the screenplay with his brother in law Charles W. Goddard
The titles of the fourteen chapters are: 1. The Clutching Hand2. The Twilight Sleep3. The Vanishing Jewels4. The Frozen Safe5. The Poisoned Room6. The Vampire7. The Double Trap8. The Hidden Voice9. The Death Ray10. The Life Current11. The Hour of Three12. The Blood Crystals13. The Devil Worshippers14. The Reckoning
Favorite film of Tsar Nicholas II.
Elaine Dodge (White) is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure known only as the Clutching Hand, Elaine enlists the aid of Craig Kennedy to unmask the killer ... who is obviously an entrusted figure in the insurance company. The two sleuths get some help (of a sort) from Jameson, Taylor Dodge's bumbling but faithful secretary. Along the way, they have some hair's-breadth escapes and some bizarre adventures ... including a seance at which Elaine encounters a bodiless voice claiming to be Iko, the spirit of Taylor Dodge.

The Exploits of Elaine - 1914 (Chapter 1)

Country: USA
Language: English (intertitles)
Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton
Writers: Charles W. Goddard (screenplay), Arthur B. Reeve (novel), Basil Dickey (screenplay) uncredited, George B. Seitz
Stars: Pearl White, Arnold Daly and Creighton Hale
Release Date: 29 December 1914 (USA)
Also known as: Las peripecias de Elena (Argentina)
Les mystères de New York (France)
Production Co: Wharton
Plot Keywords: Serial | Character Name In Title
Genres: Action
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1994.
The Pathé Frères US company took over the Eclectic Film Company and renamed it Pathé Exchange Inc. in early 1915. This is why both the old Eclectic and Pathé Exchange Inc. are listed as original theatrical distributors for this title.
The novel of the same name by Arthur B. Reeve was published serially in newspapers while the film was playing in theaters. It was later published in book form.
Basil Dickey claimed to have written the screenplay with his brother in law Charles W. Goddard
The titles of the fourteen chapters are: 1. The Clutching Hand2. The Twilight Sleep3. The Vanishing Jewels4. The Frozen Safe5. The Poisoned Room6. The Vampire7. The Double Trap8. The Hidden Voice9. The Death Ray10. The Life Current11. The Hour of Three12. The Blood Crystals13. The Devil Worshippers14. The Reckoning
Favorite film of Tsar Nicholas II.
Elaine Dodge (White) is the beautiful young daughter of Taylor Dodge, president of the Consolidated Insurance Company. When Mr Dodge is murdered by a mysterious cloaked figure known only as the Clutching Hand, Elaine enlists the aid of Craig Kennedy to unmask the killer ... who is obviously an entrusted figure in the insurance company. The two sleuths get some help (of a sort) from Jameson, Taylor Dodge's bumbling but faithful secretary. Along the way, they have some hair's-breadth escapes and some bizarre adventures ... including a seance at which Elaine encounters a bodiless voice claiming to be Iko, the spirit of Taylor Dodge.

A Fool There Was - 1915

Country: USA
Director: Frank Powell
Writers: Rudyard Kipling (poem "The Vampire"); Porter Emerson Browne (play); Roy L. McCardell (scenario); Frank Powell (scenario)
Stars: Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear and Edward José
Release Date: 12 January 1915 (USA)
Filming Locations: Fox/Willat Studio, Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA (studio); St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Production Co: William Fox Vaudeville Company
Runtime: 67 min
Sound Mix: Silent
Color: Black and White
Plot Keywords: Vamp | Daughter | Sister | Financial Ruin | Fashion | See more »
Genres: Drama
John Schuyler, happily married Wall Street lawyer, is appointed as special diplomatic representative to England. By an unhappy accident, his wife and child can't come along; but on the ship with him is "The Vampire," a "notorious woman" who lives off a succession of men she has seduced and ruined. Slighted by Mrs. Schuyler, she has set her sights on the husband. Two months later, we find the Fool languishing with the mistress who has him enmeshed in her toils. Will he follow the others to the depths of degradation?

McKinley at Home - 1896

Country: USA
Stars: William McKinley, George B. Cortelyou and Ida McKinley
Release Date: September 1896 (USA)
Also Known As: William McKinley at Canton, Ohio
Filming Locations: Canton, Ohio, USA
Production Co: American Mutoscope Company
Genres: Documentary | Short
This view was taken upon Mr. McKinley's lawn at his home in Canton, Ohio. Mr. McKinley appears walking across the lawn in company with his Secretary, who hands him a telegram, which he reads with apparent satisfaction. The characteristic walk and gestures of Mr. McKinley will be noted with interest by his friends.
This brief film purports to show William McKinley at the moment when he receives the Republican nomination in the summer of 1896, but it's actually a re-enactment staged several weeks later. At this early point in the history of movies, most 'newsreels' were doubly phony because the kings and generals depicted onscreen were actually anonymous actors in disguise, re-staging recent events. *This* film is also a re-enactment, but at least it features the actual people it claims to depict. William McKinley's brother Abner and his mentor Benjamin Harrison (the former President) were stockholders in the Biograph Film Company, and they persuaded McKinley to appear onscreen. A two-man camera crew arrived at McKinley's home in September 1896, setting up their equipment outside McKinley's L-shaped house. McKinley comes out of the house with his secretary, George Cortelyou, who formally hands McKinley the nomination documents (actually, a prop). McKinley glances at the papers, takes off his hat to reveal his receding hairline, and mops his large forehead with an even larger handkerchief.

Walter Makes a Movie - 1922

Country: United Kingdom
Directors: Walter Forde, Tom Seymour
Writer: Walter Forde
Stars: Walter Forde, Pauline Peters and Tubby Phillips
Production Co: British Comedies
Genres: Short | Comedy

Fatty Joins The Force - 1913

Country: USA
Language: English
Director: George Nichols
Writer: Mack Sennett (scenario)
Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Dot Farley and Edgar Kennedy
Release Date: 24 November 1913 (USA)
Production Co: Keystone Film Company
Plot Keywords: Police | Police Commissioner | Lake | Fistfight | Rescue | See more »
Genres: Comedy | Short
When 'Fatty' rescues a young girl from drowning, she turns out to be the police commissioner's daughter. The grateful commissioner offers Fatty a position on the force, and at first Fatty is very pleased with his new position. But he soon runs into difficulties, as his attempt to break up a fistfight only brings him embarrassment. Then, when he confronts a group of mischievous young boys, his real problems begin. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and supporting player Minta Durfee were married when this film was made.