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Sunday Calm is a 1923 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 20th Our Gang short subject released. The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. After losing a wheel, the parents put on a new one, and the gang races off with the wagon, leaving the parents behind. They have a picnic without the parents, only to be overrun with insects

A fire inspector discovers that his father, an industrialist, is secretly producing nitroglycerin at his warehouse

Charlie Chaplin's 50th Film released In 1918. (put together by Essanay from unfinished Chaplin films two years after he had left the company) Triple Trouble was a silent film released in 1918. It starred Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance and Leo White. This film was not an official Chaplin film, even thought it has many Chaplin directed scenes. The film was produced and edited by Essanay Films, with Leo White as director for new scenes. The actual film was created from left over film stock Essanay Films had in their collection. Since Chaplin did not own the copyright ... continua

This is an industrial film produced for B. F. Goodrich Co. Stars: Harry Langdon and Monte Collins

Suburban neighbors (Lloyd and Pollard) join together to build a garden shed, but through carelessness, wind up ruining the garden, as well as the laundry, which is drying in the yard. Further mayhem ensues when chickens are set loose

Between Showers was a short film made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman. It starred Charlie Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Emma Bell Clifton, and Chester Conklin.

Buster Keaton asks the father of the woman he loves for her hand in marriage, but the father wants to see Keaton make something of himself first.
"I'll leave for the city to make good. If I'm not a success, I'll come back and shoot myself," Buster declares, which is a perfectly acceptable arrangement as far as the father is concerned.
So Keaton heads off for the big city and tries his hand at a number of different jobs.
But his letters to his girl suggest more noble and enterprising careers than those he's actually attempting.
Her imaginings provide the basis for ... continua

Fatty's Suitless Day (also known as Fatty's Magic Pants) is a 1914 short comedy starring Fatty Arbuckle. Made by the Sennett Keystone company

To the shores of Iwo Jima is a 1945 in film Kodachrome color short war film produced by the United States Navy and United States marine corps. It documents the battle of Iwo Jima, and was the first time that American audiences saw in color the footage of the raising the flag on Iwo Jima.

A group of strangers are brought together in an old, dark house and must contend with two murders and $50,000 in stolen money