Mack Sennett

The Real Charlie Chaplin, sessiz sinema denildiğinde akla gelen ilk isimlerden biri olan usta komedyenin hayatı ve kariyerini konu ediniyor. Belgesel film, dünya çapındaki ikonun bilinmeyen yanlarını ortaya çıkarmak için daha önce hiç duyulmamış kayıtlar, samimi ev röportajları, sahne arkası materyalleri ve yakın zamanda restore edilmiş klasik filmlerle Chaplin arşivlerine eşi görülmemiş bir erişim sergileyecek. Chaplin’in bir asırdan fazla bir süre önce ekrana ilk çıkışına kadar uzanan film, usta oyuncunun Viktorya dönemi Londra’sının kenar mahallelerinden Hollywood’un gözde yıldız oyuncusu olarak zirveye hızlıca yükselişi ve skandallı düşüşü de dahil olmak üzere her şeyi anlatmayı hedefliyor. Belgesel film aynı zamanda şu soruyu soruyor: Gerçek Charlie Chaplin kimdi? “Ölümsüz bir efsane haline gelen bir adamın sürekli değişen portresi” olarak tanımlanan The Real Charlie Chaplin, dünya çapındaki ikonun gizemli hayatına büyüleyici bir bakış olmayı vaat ediyor.

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.

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. He makes his debut in Nevada, in the middle of gold diggers. After managing to clear his name he becomes, with Oliver Hardy, a big comedy star.

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother noble in both station and character, they were vastly different morally. Jose was a dutiful son and upright young man, while Manuel was the black sheep. It was on Easter Sunday morning during the processional that Manuel appears in an intoxicated condition and foully ridicules the priests and acolytes as they enter the chapel of the old mission. At this the mother's pride is hurt beyond endurance and she exiles her profligate son from her forever. Manuel is shunned as a viper and while making his way along the road, meets Pedro, the notorious political outlaw, who sympathizes with him and offers him inducements to join him, and so takes him to his camp. Meanwhile, Jose woos and wins the Red Rose of Capistran and the day for the wedding is set.

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself.

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.

A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to take the wheel in his place.

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the house are jealous, and accuse her of trying to steal the musician's violin. Lady Helen retreats to her own home, and arranges a position for the musician which allows them to be together.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy. When the gypsy tells the fortune so as to serve his own purposes, complications soon develop.

Buğday çuvalını kontrol eden çiftçi, yaşlı babasıyla birlikte tarlaya buğday eker. Buğday satmak için gittikleri buğday kralı onlardan buğday almaz. Buğday kralının açgözlülüğü ve kendi menfaatine aldığı kararlar, buğday fiyatlarının yükselmesine, buğday üreticisinin kazancının düşmesine ve ekmeğin ana maddesi olması nedeniyle ekmek fiyatlarının iki katına çıkmasına neden olur. Buğdayını satamayan çiftçinin karısı ve kızı, paraları yetmediği için ekmek almaya gittikleri köşedeki marketten elleri boş dönerler. Marketteki zamlara isyan eden halk, polis tarafından püskürtülür. Açgözlü buğday kralı ise kontrolü ele geçirmesinin verdiği güçle 4.000.000 dolar kazanır. Sevinçten deliye dönen buğday kralı, ayağı kayınca buğday deposuna düşer ve üzerine dökülen buğdayların altında can verir. Çiftçi tarlasına buğday ekmeye devam eder.

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.

A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.