Favorite Films of 1910-1919

A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.

The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes to the office to ask the father, he is tossed out. He is ejected over and over, by different methods, while the girl waits and waits.

Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.

The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.

The subject of a mysterious portrait emerges from the painting and terrorizes the young man who hung it in his room.

The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.

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.

Master Tom is lured away from his job of protecting the house from mice by the charms of "Miss Kitty". While he's gone, the mice trash the house. Complications ensue.

The poor student Balduin sells his mirror image to the satanic sorcerer Scapinelli. He falls in love with a countess and tries to win her over. But his mirror image receives a life of its' own and sabotages Balduin's every move.

Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.

Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.

In the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.

A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.

A desperate man and two romantic rivals encounter one another at a Christmas party.

A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.

A mean old man lives next door to a poor but happy large family. The little girl next door tries to reach him, and eventually helps melt his heart on Christmas eve.

As a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.

When a burglar dressed as Santa Claus steals a family's Christmas presents, amateur detective Octavius sets out to recover the loot.

When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon has to hold off a pair of ruffians who are bent on stealing the payroll from an arriving train.

1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Virgil.

A company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.

Pastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.