J. Searle Dawley

Frankenstein, a young medical students, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster. A fight ensues but the monster, seeing himself in a mirror, is horrified and runs away. He later returns, entering the new bride's room, and finds her alone. (imdb)

A family is terrified when an eagle carries off its young child. (imdb)

Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love with each other, but when the trainer discovers them together, he makes it clear that Jack is unwelcome. Later, at the stables, another suitor for the daughter's hand appears. An unusual agreement is reached, under which the result of a race will determine which of the two the daughter will marry. But Jack's rival proves to be unscrupulous, and he will stop at nothing to be successful. (imdb)

A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty. (imdb)

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning. (imdb)

A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace. (imdb)

A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor. (imdb)

Cupid visits a ballroom dance and tries to bring a couple together. (imdb)

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. (imdb)

Retelling of the famous incident in the 1854 Crimean War when a British cavalry unit, because of a mix-up in orders, charged an almost impregnable Russian artillery position and was decimated. (imdb)

A detective's daughter is kidnapped by a gang of counterfeiters led by an evil professor whose son has been sent to prison based on the detective's evidence. (imdb)

A female detective goes undercover as a chorus girl to solve the murder of a scientist whose son was threatened with disinheritance for his a romance with a chorus girl. (imdb)

A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman. (imdb)

Detective Kate Kirby discovers that a ship captain has been sent on a doomed voyage by his rival for the affections of the shipowner's daughter. (imdb)

This handsome version of the famous fairy tale is based on the 1912 Broadway play presented at New York's Little Theatre with great success. Supposedly disposed of by the Wicked Queen, Snow White finds her way to a happy glen and the home of seven friendly dwarfs. A deadly apple casts her into a deep sleep, from which she is revived in time by her devoted prince. (imdb)

Poet and writer Edwin Markham recites his poem "Lincoln, the Man of the People" written in 1900 and presented at the opening ceremonies of the Lincoln Memorial on 30 May 1922. (imdb)

Short film of Adolph Zukor, head of Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount, introducing the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system. (imdb)

Brooke Johns sings and plays ukulele and Goodee Montgomery sings and dances in this rendition of the song "I'm in Love Again" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. (imdb)

A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

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. (imdb)

This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements -- a selfish step-sister, a put-upon beauty, a Prince Charming, and, of course, a lost slipper -- but shifts the action to a contemporary boarding house. Cinderella, played by Mary Fuller, befriends an elderly resident, who buys a party outfit for her favorite when Cinderella's elder sister preens for a dance. The new clothes transform the unassuming maiden into the toast of the ball.... (filmpreservation.org)

The Relief belongs to the genre of historical fiction. Multiple attempts at Lucknow's relief are condensed in fiction into one triumphant march, but the film's claims to authenticity remain an important dimension of its drama.

A Canadian lumberjack nostalgically recalls his past as he listens to a record of the song his sweetheart used to sing him - "Annie Laurie". The singer of the record travels to Western Canada for her health, making a stop at Golden, and the lumberjack saves her from being robbed by two crooks. He then discovers that she is the old sweetheart and she sits down to sing the old song for him. (Library and Archives Canada.)

One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale. (imdb)

The story itself deals with the primitive instinct of mankind; to desire was to take at strength of arms, and thus one of the chiefs chose for his own a maiden fair who was loved in turn by a young brave, and whose admiration she returned. But like unto the dark ages, whenever a man desired a maid he took her with or without her leave. Thus far did the chief go, but her lover decides to match his strength of arms for so fair a bride, and they fight upon the cliff's edge. (imdb)

We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window.

In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with its noble lord, who chanced to pass by one fair day and there noble eyes met peasant meekness and love found work a-plenty to do. But maiden thought naught of my lord o' the manor, nor so much as gave him cause to hope that all his castles and lands could win her heart from the true peasant lad.

Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle, reputed to be haunted, the Hindu caretaker Sakes relates the following tale: Henry Claven, Sakes' master, courted his beautiful neighbor Betty Truesdale, but when she became engaged to Captain Bob Lambert, Claven precipitated a duel by telling Lambert that he knew his mother was a negress.