Masterpiece Selection that Capture the Essence of A Schoolhouse Sca...

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of East Lynne with Variations perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

It's all there - the deserted mother with her child in her arms, followed all around by a fiendish wicked snow storm, the heroine lashed to the rails by the scoundrelly villain, the young woman fastened to the buzz saw of a lumber mill and about to be reduced to mincemeat. And hist. The wicked villain with a mustache and cigarette - the noble hero and the persecuted heroine. There are two drunks sitting in one of the boxes of the theater, who get so excited that they insist upon helping out the action of the melodrama. In the middle of the play, the head scene shifter gets jealous of his wife, who is the leading woman of the show, and drags her from the stage. Nothing, if not resourceful, Ben rushes down into the audience and kidnaps a beautiful young woman to play the leading woman's role. Then comes a startling climax, when the snow storm is shut down by a queer accident. And an equally tragic catastrophe jazzes up the ocean when a storm and a submarine play at cross purposes.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Bobby hires himself out as a pet monkey to an organ grinder who has an attractive dancing girl for an assistant. A monkey of about Bobby's size and build escapes from a cage in the city hospital, where it was being held for an experimental operation. Bobby is taken for the escaped monkey and instead of giving him pennies, everyone runs away from him. Finally Bobby hides in the cage in the hospital that held the escaped monkey. He lands on the operating table, but an orderly breaks a tube of laughing gas and the operation has to be called off.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of His Meal Ticket perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Paleface perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A husband who frequents cabarets has a shrewish wife who pursues him, leaving a very pretty baby to get into trouble while she is away.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Scarecrow perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.