short_films

Three Stooges skit (Two Souls and a Heel)"Niagara Falls" was an old vaudeville skit, called "Slowly I Turned". From Stooges short "Gents Without Cents". Abbott and Costello did an adaptation of it in "In Society" called "Susquehanna Hat Company" or "Bagel Street".

a 1-minute primer produced in the late 1950s From fact sheets dated February 28, 1958 & April 2, 1960. The U.S. Army's CORPORAL, this country's first ballistic guided missile, is about 45 feet long with control fins located on the ends of the large stabilizing fins. It weighs about five tons fueled and ready for launching. Before the CORPORAL is fired, basic firing data is computed for the guidance equipment and entered as settings in the various vans. Then, after the missile is launched, minor corrections are made to the trajectory to insure an accurate impact.

A September 30, 1903 afternoon panoramic view, shot by H.J Miles, of people at the north end of Ocean Beach located near the Cliff House on San Francisco's western shore. The film is a production of the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. If some of these scenes look familiar, it is because this is the full video from which 2 short clips, "Cliff House from Ocean Beach" and "Crowds at Ocean Beach," housed at archive.org, were taken.

The original French title for the print fragment is Le papillon fantastique. IMDb Page

spanish version of "blotto" laural and hardy go to a night club with a bottle of liquor that stan swiped from his wife. stans wife is wised up to stans scheme, so she empties the liquor and replaces it with hot sauses and cold tea. at the night club stan and oliver proceed to get wasted and watch the entertainment- a female impersonater and 2 hootchie coochie dancers.this version contains about 15 minutes of footage not in the american version

Silent comedy legends Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair Panama-Pacific Exposition. The theme of the expo was the newly built Panama Canal, and it also focused on San Francisco's newly rebuilt infrastructure following the earthquake of 1906. IMDb entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005675/

This is third (and also the last) part of collection of short film created by The Edison Manufacturing Co. and Thomas A. Edison, Inc. from the years 1903-1922. Some of this movies are already on Internet Archive, but I thought it would be great have them all in one place.

The original French title is Satan en prison. IMDb Page

This is second part of collection of short film created by The Edison Manufacturing Co. and Thomas A. Edison, Inc. from the years 1899-1902. Some of this movies are already on Internet Archive, but I thought it would be great have them all in one place.

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