Browse 58 movies from General Film Company
Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is threatened with eviction.
Oct 1912
Mr. Simpkins gets a raise, but puts some of it away for himself. Overnight, he believes he's accidentally poisoned himself, but does his wife have something to do with it?
Dec 1915
Henry Latimer's wife believes in "Beautiful Thoughts" that transform life. Her friend devises a plan to cure Mrs. Latimer of the fad.
Nov 1915
Tim spends his days running with a railroad gang which frustrates his struggling parents. When his father falls ill Tim reluctantly gets a job begrudging being forced into that position, but when events take a tragic turn he realizes the need for him to become a responsible adult.
Nov 1912
A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
Dec 1912
An accidental death on a hunting trip results in an innocent young man being accused of murder.
Sep 1912
Mr. and Mrs. Pantomus finally get lucky with a good cook, Tillie. When Tillie wants to go to the city, Mr. Pantomus takes her out, but confusion ensues.
Jan 1916
Pirates attack the town of Martinique and capture the governor. But the townspeople rally back in a battle between ships.
Nov 1911
Ruthless stockbroker John McLane has ruined James Horton through reckless money management. McLane is extremely hard in business matters. When Horton’s son, Walter, confronts McLane they have a stormy altercation in which McLane is accidentally killed with a paper knife. McLane’s blind daughter Nora has been upstairs during the incident but runs down to find Horton sitting in a chair feigning sleep. Nora touches him lightly on the face thus impressing his features in her mind and when she turns to her father he flees. In time Nora’s blindness is cured and at a house party she meets Walter Horton. He recognizes her but she does not know him, and they fall in love but when she touches his face, she realizes the truth.
Apr 1913
An hotel bellboy, a telephone operator, a travelling salesman and a thief are absorbed by "The Grouch Chaser", a book containing animated cartoon. A few cartoons are interspersed with adventures happening in the hotels' lobby.
Jun 1915
A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack and rifle the contents. Morrison, postmaster at Bell, has been systematically robbing the mails and benefits by the mail sack's disappearance. Mary Gates, daughter of an engineer, supplies the Post Office inspectors with the first clue. The detectives blunder, however, and arrest Billy, Mary's sweetheart. Chance leads them on the trail of the tramps. The hobos are arrested after a desperate battle. Later, as the result of Mary's clever work, Morrison is brought to bay, while Billy wins his freedom.
Oct 1914
Sidney Edwards finds a horseshoe, but his bad luck starts immediately. After several incidents, his son quietly borrows the horseshoe, perhaps to turn their family's luck around.
Sep 1914
A man is hired by a department store just so he can be 'fired' every time there's a customer complaint.
Nov 1914
While exploring the fair, Mary is approached by Burke, who is drawn to her beauty. Mary's former sweetheart, Earle, and Burke's own jilted former lover discover the two are planning to elope. Working together, Earle and the shell-game man’s former sweetheart manage to intervene and prevent the elopement, preserving the "rural life" and farm scenes depicted throughout the film.
Mrs. John Smithers believes her newlywed husband to be a paragon of virtue. Reality sets in as he spends a night out drinking with friends, and a series of lies ends up as comedic fodder.
Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.
Mar 1913
Buster Brown tosses a goat into the mix and pandemonium ensues.
Survives only incomplete, but it nicely evokes the lost mining West. The steep hillsides of Bingham Canyon were divided into ethnic enclaves, and in the excerpt we glimpse the neighborhood known as Highland Boy, home to Italian and eastern European immigrants.
An archeologist discovers an ancient parchment inside a mummy case, and realizes that he is the reincarnation of the lover of an Egyptian princess who took her own life many centuries earlier.
Jan 1913
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Queenie wants to kill him. So Rabbit packs up to leave the country. When Alice finds this out she commits suicide which brings her into a fantasy world.
Mar 1982