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Browse 118 movies from Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP)
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Nov 1913
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Mar 1913
A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.
Apr 1910
After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart as well.
Mar 1910
The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the director) and King Baggot , a well-known theatrical actor, here in his cinematographic debut.
Dec 1909
A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
Jun 1910
A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
Jan 1911
An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau.
Jul 1911
An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.
May 1910
In the valley the world's best "eternal triangle" is being worked between a husband, a much younger wife and "one who covets." On the heights, the shepherd hears the call and for the nonce becomes a wanderer, and descends into the valley of Passions and Pain. It is the gentle, unfelt, almost unseen influence of the wanderer that stops a maddened husband from first murder and then suicide; exposes the frailty of a wife to her own consideration, and points out to her the grim consequences of a moment's folly, and finally takes the "one who covets" away from the born passions of the valley a far journey up the heights, and disaster to three souls.
Apr 1913
A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.
Unbeknownst to Jim Donovan, his friend and business partner Dan Morgan admired his wife, and one day, when he heard that Jim was in the office, he visited his grandmother and told her that he loved her. She was shocked. Disgusted by her rejection, he planned cunningly. On his way from his home, he sent a fake telegram to Jim, pretending to be from his uncle Frank Foster and asking him to come immediately, as he was seriously ill.
Jan 1917
A lost film. Dr. Crawford and his wife with their little daughter, Elsie, are at home amusing themselves with the Scotch collie puppy, Imp, when another doctor is announced and he is shown an article in a newspaper which describes the providential rescue from drowning of the doctor's child by Lassie, the mother of Imp. Two more physician's arrive and announce that they have come to try an experiment with a newly discovered anesthetic. Dr. Crawford has a guinea pig, on which the experiment is to be tried, but it is discovered the animal has died, and the men of medicine are in a quandary. It is finally decided to use Imp, the puppy, for the experiment, despite the mild protest of Elsie.
Of the over 30 one-reelers Mary Pickford made in Cuba for Carl Laemmle’s Independent Motion Pictures Company, A Manly Man is one of few that survives today. Pickford plays Lola, a young Filipino woman who falls in love with Duncan (William E. Shay), a Caucasian man sent to her village on business. After Lola risks her life nursing his fever and saving him from a knife attack, Duncan marries her and resists the temptation to return to his American fiancée. Directed by Thomas Ince and co-starring Pickford’s first husband Owen Moore, A Manly Man was later reissued under the title His Gratitude (1914).
Feb 1911
Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.
Mar 1912
Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair of trousers, chaos and confusion is the result
Sep 1910
Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous burglar to save the life of a child thought to be trapped inside a bank’s time-lock safe. Also stars King Baggot and Owen Moore (Mary Pickford’s first husband).
Jul 1910
A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
Aug 1910
A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.
The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but the husband is engrossed in his work as a scientist, having a laboratory in his house. He conducts several experiments and is on the verge of success in his invention when an explosion of the chemicals occurs and it subsequently develops that he is blinded for life, his eyesight being permanently destroyed.
Apr 1911