The Star Boarder - 1914

Country: USA

Language: English

Director: George Nichols

Writer: Craig Hutchinson, and Charles Chaplin (uncredited)

Stars: Charles Chaplin (The Star Boarder), Minta Durfee (Landlady), Edgar Kennedy (Landlady's Husband), Gordon Griffith (The Son) and Alice Davenport (Landlady's Friend)

Release Date: 4 April 1914 (USA)

Also known as: Charlie spelar tennis (Sweden); Charlot quiere a la patrona (Spain - reissue title); Charlot, huésped ideal (Spain); In Love with His Landlady (undefined); The Fatal Lantern (USA - alternative title); The Hash-House Hero (undefined); The Landlady's Pet (USA - alternative title)

Production Co: Keystone Film Company

Runtime: 16 min

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Plot Keywords: Landlady | Boarding House | Slide Show | Brat | Magic Lantern  |  Camera | Ladder | Drunkenness | Public Domain | Tennis | Husband Wife Relationship | Misunderstanding | Young Boy | Caught In The Act | Jealousy | Ice Box | Cuckold | Flirting | Spanking | Two Reeler

Genres: Comedy | Short

Charlie stays at a boarding-house, where he is the landlady's favorite. Her husband grows jealous when observing this. Their little son has a camera. He happens to take some photos of his mother and Charlie in situations which are innocent but look indecent. He also takes a photo of his father and a female boarding-guest in a similar situation. In the evening the boy arranges a slide show in the boarding-house. Suddenly also the equivocal photos of his parents appear on the screen. His jealous father gets furious and starts chasing Charlie. Soon all the boarding-guests are involved in the fight.  

Fire Rescue Scene - 1894

Country: USA

Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise

Release Date: December 1894 (USA)

Filming Locations: Edison Laboratories, West Orange, New Jersey, USA

Production Co: Edison Manufacturing Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Connections: Featured in Edison: The Invention of the Movies (2005) (V)

 -  The entire film is included on the DVD

Plot Keywords: Smoke | Ladder | Rescue Attempt | Burning Building | Firefighting

Genres: Drama | Short 

"Firemen in working uniform, rubber coats, helmets, and boots. Thrilling rescue from burning building. Smoke effects are fine." - from the Edison Catalog

Thick smoke fills the air as a group of fire-fighters prepare for a rescue attempt. One of them, standing on a ladder, helps a young girl down to the ground in safety. A young boy comes next. The fire-fighter then climbs higher up the ladder to see if anyone else needs help.

Palace of Electricity - 1900

Country: USA

Filming Locations: Paris, France

Production Co: Edison Manufacturing Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Genres: Documentary | Short

A panoramic shot, making a full circle, at the 1900 Paris Exposition. It begins and ends looking at the front of the Palace of Electricity. As it pans, first we see a workman hosing down the promenade. Men and women walk past, all wearing hats. We see the base of the Eiffel Tower, which the Palace faces. A couple strolls. A mother and daughter walk passed, father is slightly ahead wearing a boater. Three men in uniform walk toward the camera as it comes to a stop facing the Palace. 

Uncle Josh At The Moving Picture Show - 1902

Country: USA

Language: English

Director: Edwin S. Porter

Stars: Charles Manley (Uncle Josh)

Release Date: January 1902 (USA)

Also Known As: Josh bácsi és a mozgókép (Hungary)

Production Co: Edison Manufacturing Company

Runtime: 2 min

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White

Plot Keywords: Film In Film

Genres: Comedy | Short

Country rube thinks what he sees on the movie screen is real. He jumps out of his seat to try to stop a kissing scene. 

A side-splitter. Uncle Josh occupies a box at a vaudeville theatre, where a moving picture show is going on. First a dancer appears on the screen. Uncle Josh jumps to the stage and endeavors to make lover to her, but she flits away, and immediately there appears upon the screen the picture of an express train running at sixty miles an hour. Uncle Josh becomes panic-stricken, and fearing to be struck by the train, makes a dash for his box. He is no sooner seated than a country couple appear upon the screen, at a well. Before they pump the pail full of water they indulge in a love-making scene. Uncle Josh thinks he recognizes his own daughter, jumps upon the stage, removes his coat and prepares to chastise the lover, and grabbing the moving picture screen he hauls it down, and to his great surprise finds a kinetoscope operator in the rear. The operator is made furious by Uncle Josh interrupting his show... Written by Edison Catalog  

Absinthe - 1913

Country: USA

Language: English

Stars: Sadie Weston [The Artist's Model (as Miss Weston)] and Glen White (The Artist)

Release Date: 7 January 1913 (USA)

Production Co: Gem Motion Picture Company

Sound Mix: Silent

Color: Black and White 

Genres: Short | Drama