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James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

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 and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the …

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them…

U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane goes undercover to infiltrate a ruthless gang led by a seemingly harmless book salesman planning a massive land swindle, but his mission becomes complicated when another vigilante …

Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a ive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men ki…

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with…

Based on a story told by George Johnson, featuring Booker T. Washington. Only four minutes survive.

The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes her guardian. Ruth's wins…

Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates. When an elderly gentleman approaches the two men he us…

Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from . As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered forme…

Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.

Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to dinner, and serves him a large meal with plenty of wine. A…

Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West', rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off its back, another cowboy stands on top of a fence rail …

Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for i…

Nevada, a wandering cowboy, hijacks stolen bank loot from a gang of outlaws, only to find himself entangled in a scheme involving government horse buyers, corrupt officials, and a beautiful ranch owner's …

When singing cowboy Roy Rogers discovers that scheming town boss Craig Allen is trying to swindle young Chip Williams out of her supposedly worthless inherited gold mine, he races against time to prove th…

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 League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on…

Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed…