The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 1910

5.40

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

1910

Temperance Town

Temperance Town 1916

1

Mink Jones of Jonesville, is the lord high executioner and everything else.

1916

Shotgun Jones

Shotgun Jones 1914

1

Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.

1914

The Land of Oz

The Land of Oz 1910

1

The Emerald City in all its splendor with all the familiar characters so dear to the hearts of children - Little Dorothy, the scarecrow, the woodman, the cowardly lion, and the wizard continuing on their triumphal entry to the mystic city, adding new characters, new situations, and scintillating comedy. Dorothy, who has so won her way into the good graces of lovers of fairy folk, finds new encounters in the rebellion army of General Jinger [sic] showing myriads of Leith soldiers in glittering apparel forming one surprise after the other, until the whole resolves itself into a spectacle worthy of the best artists in picturedom. Those who have followed the two preceding pictures of this great subject cannot but appreciate "The Land of Oz," the crowning effort of the Oz series.

1910

The Sanitarium

The Sanitarium 1910

3.50

A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him.

1910

A Common Enemy

A Common Enemy 1910

3.50

A secret message is dispatched by the young daughter of a Southern family to Col. Morgan's camp.

1910

Jim

Jim 1914

1

Jim Carson, a young farmer, loves the school teacher, Helen Dale, and they expect to be married. His father unexpectedly marries a widow who has a son, Arthur Vaughn, an actor. Arthur creates havoc with Helen's heart and the plans of Jim are disarranged.

1914

In the Long Ago

In the Long Ago 1913

1

A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a despised musician is refused the privilege of marrying the belle of the tribe. He proves himself not only strong enough to kill his rival, the tribe's stalwart warrior, in a struggle for the girl, but is able to make a magic flute which can and does restore the girl, now lying dead. In the closing scenes, the picture shows a short glimpse of modern life which suggests that the old myth is being played, in part, again.

1913

Danger Trail

Danger Trail 1917

1

John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.

1917

The Jungle Princess

The Jungle Princess 1920

3.50

Feature version of The Lost City (1920), a fifteen episode serial.

1920

The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah 1916

1

When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah

1916

The Cruel Crown

The Cruel Crown 1914

1

Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's palace.

1914

Lost in the Jungle

Lost in the Jungle 1911

5.00

Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on her father's farm, is her only pet and in the first part of our story we see her befriend him from a cruel keeper. Hans, a neighboring Boer farmer calls and asks for Meta's hand in marriage. The girl is ordered by her father to accept Hans' attentions. She has been taught to obey and when Hans gives her a love offering, a huge necklace of beads, she meekly offers her cheek for the betrothal kiss. Sir John's nephew, Hirshal, comes for a visit from England and Sir John brings him for a friendly call on the Krugas. Meta's heart awakens at the sight of the handsome, young Englishman, and she returns Hans's necklace. The father, however, orders her to marry Hans, or never darken his door again.

1911

Brown of Harvard

Brown of Harvard 1918

1

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

1918

Cinderella

Cinderella 1912

1

According to Vachel Lindsay, "the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers".

1912

Indian Summer

Indian Summer 1913

1

A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.

1913

Monte Cristo

Monte Cristo 1912

6.00

An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zukor successfully sued and the prints were ordered to be destroyed. The film is now lost.

1912

Unto Those Who Sin

Unto Those Who Sin 1916

1

Nadia, a stenographer, must give her meager earnings to her drunken father. When he shoots his wife's lover, Nadia decides to move in with her flashy girl friend Mabel, who soon introduces her to the fast life.

1916