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A Woman
1915 - 20 mins

Love him or loathe him, there's no dismissing the importance of Chaplin's cinematic legacy. All the usual knockabout slapstick - including a bit of cross-dressing - abound in this early outing for the little tramp. A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majectic Studio. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film. He played a woman in two Keystone films: The Masquerader and A Busy Day. »

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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (The Amazing Adventure)
1936 - 61 mins

Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesn't think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth. »

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His Private Secretary
1933 - 60 mins

A very young John Wayne is unusually cast as a randy playboy in His Private Secretary. Much to the dismay of his businessman father, Dick Wallace (Wayne) prefers a life of wine, women and more women to honest work. The elder Wallace demands that Dick take a job as his company's collection manager, and it is in this capacity that our hero heads to the small town of Somerville to collect a debt. »

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One AM (Solo)
1916 - 34 mins

A night on the tiles ends awkwardly for Charlie Chaplin's little tramp in this silent classic created for Mutual Films. Except for a brief appearance from a Chaplin stalwart (Albert Austin as a taxi-cab driver) this is a one-hander from Chaplin as he bumbles and fumbles his way to bed. »

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The Paleface
1922 - 21 mins

This is one of Keaton's great two-reeler shorts, made just before his classic Cops and his subsequent launch into feature films. Keaton was at the peak of his comic powers here and the inventiveness never stops through all the surprising twists and turns. It all culminates in a plunge from a seventy-five-foot suspension bridge. »

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Disorder in the Court
1936 - 16 mins

Disorder in the Court is the 15th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly). Those who aren't familiar with their early work will find some interesting routines here which are close to how their early vaudeville performance may have been like on stage. »

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The General
1927 - 75 mins

"Love, Locomotives and Laughs". The General is generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies. The film is based on a real incident during the American Civil War when northern soldiers hijacked a confederate train. Filled with hilarious sight gags and perfectly timed stunt work, the chase comedy is an imaginative masterpiece of dead-pan Buster Keaton comedy. »

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The Goat
1921 - 27 mins

The Goat is a 1921 short comedy film written, directed by and starring comedian Buster Keaton. Buster is mistaken for an escaped criminal, Dead Shot Dan, leading to people that aren't chasing him, fleeing from him. Keatons' work as a performer and director is widely regarded to be some of the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. »

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Betty Boop - Morning Noon and Night
1933 - 7 mins

One of Max Flescher's classic Betty Boop cartoons, featuring a mix of animation and live action. Add in the virtuoso musical talents of Rubinoff. In this adventure, Betty and her friends have to save a baby bird from some bad cats. »

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Yu Ming is Ainm Dom (My Name is Yu Ming )
2003 - 13 mins

Bored with his life in China, a shop worker decides to move to Ireland and becomes perfectly fluent in Irish before his trip. The film follows his adventures in trying to be understood in Dublin, where most of the population has little or no grasp of their own language. »

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The Agricultural Report
2004 - 2 mins

It's a cow's life. Animation where a cow's life is turned upside down by a News radio programme. The shock of learning about Foot and Mouth Disease has a profound effect on the psychology of this poor animal with humorous results. »

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Olive
2003 - 11 mins

Unlikely school friendship develops into love story. Deirdre and Olive are two very different teenage girls. Deirdre is very unexperienced and Olive is the typical bad student. They strike a friendship and hit the nightclubs. »

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Malice In The Palace
1949 - 16 mins

The Stooges portray waiters at a restaurant in the Middle East who obtain a map leading them to the prized Rootin Tootin Diamond. (The map features several comical location names, such as Great Mitten, the Bay of Rum, I-ran, He-ran, and She-ran.) In the land of Schmow, the trio succeeds in obtaining the jewel from Omagosh the Emir of Schmow, via their chicanery and hijinks, aided in part by using Santa Claus costumes. »

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A Jitney Elopement
1915 - 33 mins

A Jitney Elopement was Charlie Chaplin's fifth film for Essanay Films. It starred Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance as lovers, with Edna wanting Charlie to take her away from an arranged marriage her father (played by Fred Goodwins) had planned for her. Charlie does take her away in a jitney, a popular name for the Model T Ford in the United States between 1914 and 1916. »

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Easy Street
1917 - 19 mins

Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film by Charlie Chaplin. It takes place on a street similar to where Chaplin himself was born, a despairing world beset by gangs, domestic violence, alcoholics and a tenuous authority represented by the church and police. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin, as the Little Tramp character, that steps forward (rather reluctantly) to rid the street of bullies, help the poor, save women from madmen and generally keep the peace. »

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In the Park
1915 - 13 mins

In the Park was Charlie Chaplin's fourth film released in 1915 by Essanay Films. It was his third film while at the Niles Essanay Studio. It was one of several films Charlie Chaplin created in a park setting.A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. »

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The Flying Deuces
1931 - 69 mins

Laurel and Hardy are in Paris. Ollie is in love with a woman. When he find out that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is prevented and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Eventually, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and escape the firing squad by stealing a plane. »

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The Grass is Greener
1960 - 105 mins

The Grass Is Greener is a 1960 comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and featuring an ensemble cast consisting of screen veterans Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons. Members of British aristocracy, Victor and Hilary Rhyall (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr), are facing financial troubles and are forced to have guided tours of their House. When an obnoxious oil tycoon Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum) and an equally grating ex-girlfriend of Rhyall, Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons), visit, a love triangle (or quadrangle) develops and kicks off a tale of love, jealousy and other strong emotions. »

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Happy Go Lovely
1951 - 97 mins

A delightful comedy in which David Niven plays B.G. Bruno, the wealthy and uptight head of a Scottish greeting card company. But when he meets several lovely ladies from a cash-strapped American theater company who mistake him for a reporter, Bruno (Niven) starts to loosen up. Romance, comic incidents and other mishap, as well as a strong performance by Vera-Ellen as Janet Jones, keep the story moving. »

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The Admiral Was A Lady
1950 - 87 mins

Wanda Hendrix is a WAVE officer who is endlessly pursued by lascivious men. Ex-airmen Edmond O'Brien, Johnny Sands and Steve Brodie spend most of their time chasing Wanda about, but she manages to keep them at arms' length. You see, she only has eyes for her boyfriend Dick Erdman, who is on the lam from vengeful millionaire Rudy Vallee. But it's O'Brien who ends up with Wanda, after nearly getting pounded into hamburger in the boxing ring as a means of proving his love. »

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Meet John Doe
1941 - 122 mins

Meet John Doe is a 1941 comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film, about a "grassroots" political campaign, created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman, became a box office hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story. »

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Made For Each Other
1939 - 92 mins

Jimmy Stewart plays a young lawyer John Mason. Who marries Jane Mason (Carole Lombard) after knowing her for just one day. Made For Each Other combines laughter with tears in what is a classic, heartwarming example of true family entertainment. »

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Fluent Dysphasia
2004 - 16 mins

Another award winning film from the maker of Yu Ming is Ainm Dom. Interview with the Vampire and Crying Game star, Stephen Rea, plays a single father who is more interested in a night out with the lads than communicating with his only daughter, but everything changes after a drunken binge. »

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Jellybaby
2005 - 10 mins

When Jack and Jills baby began crying incessantly they thought it was a phase. Eleven months later they were still hoping. »

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Eye Spy
2005 - 3 mins

A sci-fi tale in which a spaceship crashes to Earth. Its pilot is a giant eyeball determined to destroy the world, but hasn’t counted on one man’s crusade to save the human race. »

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Nun Fight Club
2004 - 3 mins

Short animated film. "Nuns have underground clubs too!" »

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Shaving The Baby
2004 - 3 mins

A poppity nanny. A pippity baby, a sharp razor...POP! It's bath time for baby in a cosy attic nursery at the turn of the nineteenth century. Nurse lovingly bathes and lathers the happy pink infant. Then prepares the razor ... »

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St. Mathurins School of Practical Joking
2004 - 9 mins

A school where there aren't any rules and practical jokes are praised, what could be better. Monty Python meets Roald Dahl in this short comic film set in a school where pranks are not only allowed, they're on the curriculum. »

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Mighty Mouse - Wolf Wolf
1944 - 9 mins

A pack of hungry wolves, with one of them disguised as Little Bo Peep, raids a flock of sheep and captures a little lamb. The wolves' attempt to make lambchops out of the lamb are thwarted when Mighty Mouse arrives to save the day. The superhero mouse singlehandedly thwarts the wolves' dinner plans.

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My Man Godfrey
1936 - 94 mins

My Man Godfrey is a delightful, classic, screwball comedy adapted from Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue. It was directed by Gregory La Cava for Universal and is now considered the definitive screwball comedy, with its social commentary on life during the 30s. The story concerns a socialite who hires a derelict to be her family's butler, only to fall in love with him, much to his dismay. »

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