Club Silencio: Allisoncm's Favorite Silents

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Travelogue filmed between 1924 and 1926 on a motor journey between Land's End and John O'Groats using Friese-Green's two colour additive process.

Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some zesty mimicry, and so gains an introduction to a better-paying job, impersonating a high-toned Russian countess to attract snobby customers into a dressmaker's establishment.

A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.

A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.

In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.

Pre-cinematograph colour animation of a woman and man at the beach.

A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

The Liars Club is holding their contest to see who can tell the most unbelievable story, with a gold medallion waiting to be awarded to the winner. Disappointed with the other members' bland efforts, one member brings in Charley Bowers, who has an extraordinary tale to tell. Charley claims to have invented a magic potion that enables him to grow absolutely anything by a simple grafting process, and he proceeds to tell his story to the club.

The first all-animated film in history, a series of scenes without much narrative structure, but morphing into each other.

Seven toy teddy bears of varying sizes suddenly come to life, getting in all sorts of merry misadventures.

After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.

Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

An avant-garde dance short, integrating slow motion, and cutting between the movements of a ballerina, close-ups of machinery and images of nature.

A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.

Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's inheritance. The scheming guardian and his sister have been spending Bobbie's money, and they hope to have the sister marry Bobbie so that they can keep control over his money.

A scientist is studying microbes under a microscope when his friend enters the room. He explains all the microbes that his friend is infected with.

Two youths unharness a man's donkey, letting the cart tip up, and the pumpkins inside roll down the street. The owner and his donkey then pursue the pumpkins through a variety of obstacles until they catch up with them.

A fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.