Underground Favorites Mirroring the Impact of Shirley Temple: Early...

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

Dir: Bud Fisher

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

Mutt and Jeff go on strike and make their own film.

Dir: Winsor McCay

Fragment from an unreleased film that was presumably produced between 1918 and 1921. In it, Gertie the dinosaur encounters the modern era. She has an encounter with a cable car and tells her dinosaur friends about it.

Dir: Fred Niblo

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

Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his quest for adventure. He wins the right to membership by proving his prowess with the sword and forms an eternal alliance with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. After many adventures, he embarks on a dangerous mission to England to recover a diamond brooch, a gift of the king, which the queen has given to Buckingham as a token of affection. He recovers it and returns in time to save the queen from the wrath of Louis, defeat the cardinal's intrigue, and win Constance, the queen's seamstress.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

Dir: Laurence Trimble

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

When Flash's master, Clark Moran, goes out of town on business, Flash, who is part wolf, is falsely accused of sheepicide and sentenced to death by local ranchers. Escaping into the mountains, Flash finds a mate but has to leave his new companion to rescue his master's love, Betty, who has been kidnapped by the real sheep killer, Luther Nash.

Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer

A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. The prince of Denmark comes seeking her hand and, aided by magic objects given to him by a mysterious spirit, seeks to win her love.

Dir: Wilhelm Prager

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

Fairy tale about a tailor with three sons: the fat one, the tall one and the idiot one. The three decide to go on a journey to try their luck.

Dir: Charles Chaplin

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

Dir: Gilbert Pratt

Rhubarb enters a bullfighting contest and becomes a local and then a national hero in the Madrid arena. Conflict arises when his lover finds out that he is flirting with alluring Filet de Sole before facing the toughest bull of Spain.