American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied...

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident....

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is...

Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic age. Yet Rose, in spite of a gay young Lothario who...

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich...

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this...

Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to...

Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood...

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance...

It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love....

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their...