Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914

6.10

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

1914

Gertie the Dinosaur

Gertie the Dinosaur 1914

6.60

Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distinguished it from earlier animated "trick films", such as those of Blackton and Cohl, and makes it the predecessor to later popular cartoons such as those by Walt Disney. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe animation.

1914

Cabiria

Cabiria 1914

7.20

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius Axilla, a good-hearted Roman spy, and his powerful slave, Maciste. The trio are broken up as Cabiria is entrusted to a woman of noble birth. With Cabiria's fate unknown, Maciste punished for his heroism, and Fulvius sent away to fight for Rome, is there any hope of our heroes reuniting?

1914

Making a Living

Making a Living 1914

5.62

A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed, applies for a job at his newspaper.

1914

Kid Auto Races at Venice

Kid Auto Races at Venice 1914

5.50

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), standing himself in the way of the cameraman who is filming the event.

1914

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Mabel's Strange Predicament 1914

5.30

A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two hotel guests across the hall from her room, and Mabel's visiting sweetheart.

1914

The Rounders

The Rounders 1914

6.11

Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.

1914

His Prehistoric Past

His Prehistoric Past 1914

5.60

Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arrives and falls for the king's favorite wife. In the end, it turns out to have been a dream; Charlie was asleep in the park.

1914

Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home 1914

5.30

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

1914

The Masquerader

The Masquerader 1914

5.60

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

1914

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas 1914

5.50

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

1914

Caught in a Cabaret

Caught in a Cabaret 1914

5.60

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

1914

His Musical Career

His Musical Career 1914

5.90

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

1914

His Favorite Pastime

His Favorite Pastime 1914

5.15

A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.

1914

Between Showers

Between Showers 1914

5.30

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes.

1914

Cruel, Cruel Love

Cruel, Cruel Love 1914

5.09

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin's romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

1914

Mabel's Married Life

Mabel's Married Life 1914

5.90

Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.

1914

Tango Tangles

Tango Tangles 1914

5.00

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

1914

A Film Johnnie

A Film Johnnie 1914

5.40

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.

1914