Masterpiece Selection Resonating with the Themes of The Village Smi...

Dir: F. Richard Jones

A foolish husband attempts to make a date with a fair and frivolous charmer whose card has come into his possession, and is arranging all the details while his wife stands listening. He tries to explain that it is a business matter, but is forced to go to the bathroom to think it over. While thus engaged he has a horrible dream of his adventures with the frivolous lady who puts him through the exciting adventures of a badger game. That he finally escapes and wakes to find himself safe at home determines him that it shall be his last false step.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

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

There is a rivalry for the fair Louise's hand, rivalry that becomes riotous when she inherits a fortune.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Up in Alf's Place perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. Capt. Endicott, a friend of Robert's, offers to teach her how to fly. One day while aloft in the plane, the craft takes a sudden nosedive and crashes. The pair walk away uninjured and find shelter in a roadhouse. Robert, upon hearing of this, becomes jealous of Pat's spending so much time with Endicott, which angers Pat. She decides to leave Robert and slips out of the house to catch an evening train, but unfortunately Endicott is also aboard the train. Robert finds out about that, too. Complications ensue.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

Mickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Yankee Doodle in Berlin perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, Delsie O'Dell ( Dorothy Gish ) is banished from their house. Delsie along with her bulldog, Violet, follows Oscar, the actual thief, to an old haunted house, which is the hideout for a gang of thieves. A series of humorous escapades follows as she first hides from the thieves, then pretends to be a ghost, terrorizing them. Eventually she retrieves the pearls, clears her name, and is safe once again in the arms of Bill, Dennison's secretary.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: F. Richard Jones

A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictures of her husband with his arms around another woman, as "proof" that he was cheating on her. The husband, for his part, claims that he was just innocently helping the woman and that he was being blackmailed by the photographer who took the picture.