Ben Turpin Trailers
Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay TrailerDance of the Cookoos TrailerDays of Thrills and Laughter Trailer
Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay TrailerDance of the Cookoos TrailerDays of Thrills and Laughter Trailer
Total trailers found: 155
19 August 1923
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville.
04 September 1934
Rex, a wild stallion, and Rinty, a police dog, are pals. Their master , John Sheldon, is framed for murder, and Alice Ingram plans to race Rex for money to pay for John's legal defense.
18 December 1915
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
16 May 1931
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage.
15 August 1926
The plot has Ben Turpin as the prince of a mythical country who is being forced to wed a princess not of his choosing.
15 July 1917
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
18 January 1930
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
13 October 1939
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them.
02 March 1919
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.
11 March 1915
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating.
21 September 1935
The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies.
18 April 1931
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling.
17 April 1920
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined.
13 November 1931
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest.
07 March 1942
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
18 November 1917
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam.
01 February 1915
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor.
29 March 1960
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
28 October 1914
The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk. They didn't want a regular guy to get "stepped on," so they started out to find a Fish.
15 February 1915
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
05 August 1914
The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so.
23 March 1951
Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although trailed by the latter, Stan, who is reporting on the movie world, manages to be hired by Mack Sennett.
06 January 1924
In this silent comedy, a pretty department store cashier is charged with a robbery that occurred overnight at the store.
08 July 1932
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
28 August 1954
An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends.
21 November 1929
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin.
04 July 1920
In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
01 March 1951
Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915).
12 December 1925
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael.
14 September 1921
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
11 August 1918
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks.
17 January 1925
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
12 May 1909
Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
18 May 1930
To avoid hostilities, Maryan, the ward of Doc May, a medicine show owner, induces Pop Garner, a circus owner, to join forces with her guardian.
20 January 2017
Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films.
01 January 1982
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works n
28 September 1935
Basically this is a commercial for Hollywood's Lido Lounge and for MGM contract players. The Lido is a large watering hole; we visit one afternoon with an orchestra playing, all sorts of stars and would-be stars sitting at tables near the pool alongside paying customers, and bathing beauties parading and diving.
16 December 1917
There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.
02 September 1923
Pitfalls of a Big City is a 1923 short comedy
29 April 1928
"Some folks think married men live longer. They don't — it only seems longer!" The opening inter-title to "Seein' Things" (1928) sums up the life of Joe Grubb (Ben Turpin), who is married to the shrewish Mrs.
01 January 1942
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years.
13 February 1921
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor.
19 April 1924
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
11 October 1914
Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction.
12 October 1919
Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
25 November 1923
The movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt.
01 January 1920
A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finally does, he cannot make it to his bed.
14 December 1914
Mr. Von Crooks and his son are in love with Madame Double X. One night Von Crooks, Jr., elopes with her and then writes to his father to forgive them.
01 September 1915
A count shows up in Snakeville to deliver a letter telling matronly Margaret Joslin that she has inherited a lot of money, so of course he wants to romance and marry her.
01 January 1960
Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby.
13 September 1924
A roguish baron saves a girl from a carriage accident, and brings her to a backwoods Inn during a storm for refuge.
27 November 1927
A college football player is injured by a jealous teammate during practice, but comes back unexpectedly to play for his team in the season's key game.
01 January 1928
After many years as a vagabond, Ronald comes home to his family who are about to be evicted from their home.
25 January 1915
Mildred refuses Archie's proposal of marriage. Shortly after Fred arrives and she accepts him as her future husband.
21 April 1917
Right now while everyone is thinking of war, comes this two reel comedy whose plot is based on an invention to revolutionize warfare.