Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen

Alice na Cama

July 2012 •Portuguese

The Awful Truth

April 1925 •English

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.

The Fireman of the Folies-Bergere

March 1928 •English

After a lengthy period of watching the dancers at the Folies Bergères, a fireman stops in for a drink. As he becomes intoxicated, his thoughts return to the dancers, and he begins to see images of nude dancers all around him. Whether he goes into the subway, rides on a streetcar, or returns to the fire station, he continues to see the same imaginary sights.

Thieves

January 1930 •Spanish

Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidemic on his patch or face the sack.

Love in Quarantine

November 1910 •English

A quarrelling couple are forced to quarantine together after the household maid becomes ill of an infectious disease.

Der Blinde und sein Hund

January 1951 •German

The film offers three excerpts from the life of a working blind person. It shows in particular the extent to which the guide dog can replace the blind person's lack of sight and how this results in a relationship of loyalty between man and animal of rare intimacy.

Foottit et Chocolat, IV. Guillaume Tell

January 1900 •French

A short skit in which vaudeville duo Foottit and Chocolat reenact the Wilhelm Tell routine.

The Handover

December 2020 •English

On the day they move apartments, a couple struggles to get everything in order before the landlord arrives for a final inspection.

Thank You in Your Language

November 2022 •Finnish

Actor Tiina Vainio has to make an audition tape in a hotel room as soon as possible for the role of her life.

Peg o' the Mounted

February 1924 •English

A pint-sized Mountie pursues a gang of moonshiners.

The Speed Demon

July 1912 •English

An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.

The Invisible Fluid

June 1908 •English

Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He would have procured some of the mysterious fluid compounded by an erudite scientist by which things animate and inanimate were rendered non est, for ten minutes at least, by simply spraying them with it. In an atomizer, he sends a quantity, accompanied by a letter, to his brother. In the hope of his putting it on the market. The brother regards it as a joke, and, while toying with the atomizer, accidentally sprays himself. Presto! he is gone, to the amazement of the messenger boy who has carried the package thither. The boy reads the letter, and at once sees the amount of fun he can get out of it, so he nips it.

The Chaplin Revue

September 1959 •English

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

Bébé sur la Canebière

February 1911 •French

Baby Fisherman

December 1910 •French

Blowing Bubbles

January 1921 •English

A man poses as a lifeguard but his rescue techniques are not the most desirable.

Neuropathology

February 1908 •Italian

The Life of the Butterfly

November 1911 •Italian

The Revenge of Lemonade Bill

August 2018 •Portuguese

Limeville, the city of lime, fears it's legacy might be destroyed when the heirs of the land show up to claim the town and replace the lime with oranges. But there's only place for one fruit in this town...

Happy Hooligan Interferes

May 1903 •English

An organ-grinder is playing beneath the window of a cranky old woman. She objects strenuously. The organ-grinder, egged on by Hooligan, keeps on playing until a policeman appears.