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    Dud leaves home
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation insert: Us fellers: "Dud leaves home" | Copyright title: Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs, no. 7009
    Dud wants to buy his girlfriend Maime an ice cream cone so he breaks open his mother's bank, and splits their last dime in half in the process. His mother punishes him so he runs away. Dud is scared by imaginary ghosts in the dark, so he runs back home where he gets a spanking from his mother.
    • Contributor: Bray Pictures Corporation - Afi/Marshall (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Carlson, Wallace
    • Date: 1919
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    AWOL, all wrong old Laddiebuck
    All wrong old Laddiebuck | Title on liner notes: AWOL; or, All wrong old Laddiebuck | Title on the Internet movie database WWW site: A.W.O.L.
    From J. McIntire, Silent animated films at the Library of Congress: Concerns American soldiers in Europe after the armstice [sic]. One goes AWOL with "Joy" (Miss AWOL) and after a series of mishaps with her, he is thrown in a guard house while his fellow soldiers go home. From Origin of American animation 1900-1921 notes: A cautionary tale for troops impatient to return home...
    • Contributor: Bowers, Charles R. - Afi/Rhode Island Historical Society Collection (Library of Congress) - American Motion Picture Corporation
    • Date: 1919
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    San Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the International Workers of the Worlds ("the Wobblies"), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism...
    • Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
    • Date: 1916
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    Bobby Bumps starts a lodge
    Copyright title: Paramount-Bray Cartoon, no. 39, Bobby Bumps starts a lodge
    Bobby Bumps plays a trick on his friend who wants to be initiated into his lodge. When his friend outsmarts him and saves his life, they both agree to be initiated into the lodge together.
    • Contributor: Afi/Atkinson (Dennis) Collection (Library of Congress) - Bray Studios - Hurd, Earl
    • Date: 1916
  • Film, Video
    The stenographer's friend, or, What was accomplished by an Edison business phonograph
    What was accomplished by an Edison business phonograph
    It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she cannot catch up with all of the work. But then a man comes into the office to demonstrate the many advantages of the Edison System, his company's new business phonograph.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Edison Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910
  • Film, Video
    Policy and pie
    Policy & pie | Variant title on Library of Congress website, American Memory, Origins of American animation collection: Katzenjammer Kids: "Policy and pie" | Variant title in Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3. Origins of American animation: Original Katzenjammer Kids in policy and pie
    The Captain gets a life insurance policy and gives it to his wife. In gratitude she makes him a pie. The Katzenjammer Kids play a trick on the Captain and sneak toads into his pie so that he would think his wife is trying to poison him.
    • Contributor: Afi/Souder (Thomas) Collection (Library of Congress) - La Cava, Gregory - International Film Service
    • Date: 1918
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    Never again! The story of a speeder cop
    Copyrighted as: Never again | Story of a speeder cop
    An animated cartoon about an ineffectual policeman (Officer Heeler) who quits the force after a losing battle against speeders.
    • Contributor: Barré, Raoul - Powers, Tom E. - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - International Film Service
    • Date: 1916
  • Film, Video
    Love and war "An illustrated song telling the story of a hero who leaves for the war as a private, is promoted to the rank of captain for bravery in service, meets the girl of his choice, who is a Red Cross nurse on the field, and finally returns home triumphantly as an officer to the father and mother to whom he bade good bye as a...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
  • Film, Video
    Fights of nations
    Variant title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 7: Fight of nations
    H90564 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18Feb1907; H90564. Biograph production no. 3272. Paper print shelf number (LC 2412) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed. Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian. Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 103; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908,...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1907
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    The little train robbery "The opening scene shows the interior of the robbers' den. The walls are decorated with the portraits of notorious criminals and pictures illustrating the exploits of famous bandits. Some of the gang are lounging about, while others are reading novels and illustrated papers. Although of youthful appearance, each is dressed like a typical Western desperado. The "Bandit Queen," leading a blindfolded new recruit, now...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1905
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    [Buster's dog to the rescue]
    Erroneous title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Pranks of Buster Brown and his dog Tige | Erroneous title on paper roll: Busters revenge on the tramp | Title in Before the nickelodeon: Tige to the rescue | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene IV
    "Shows a kitchen and Bridget busy making crullers. Buster enters and begs Bridget to give him one. Bridget refuses and places all the crullers in a basket on the top pantry shelf. She warns Buster not to touch them, and leaves the room. Buster secures a stepladder and proceeds to climb to the top. As he is about to secure the coveted prize his...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    Buster makes room for his mama at the bargain counter
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster makes room for his mama at the bargain counter | Title in Before the nickelodeon: Buster cleans a bargain counter | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene III
    "Shows a bargain counter in a department store and a large gathering of women examining goods. It is a special sale, and a great deal of interest is shown by the ladies, who jostle and crowd each other to secure the choicest bargains. Mrs. Brown enters, accompanied by Buster and Tige. Mrs. Brown is unable to get near the counter and is in despair....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    Buster and the dude
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster Brown and the dude | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene II
    "Shows a millinery store in the shopping district, and Mrs. Brown with a lady friend, admiring the hats displayed in the window. Buster and Tige are standing in the foreground. A howling swell, leading a small dog bedecked with ribbons, recognizes Mrs. Brown and stops to chat. Buster becomes impatient, tugs at his mamma's dress, and endeavors to hurry her; but the dude waves...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    [Buster's revenge on the tramp]
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster's dog to the rescue | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene I
    "The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron over her head and to the back of the chair, he tries to reach a jar of jam on the top shelf of the pantry. After several futile attempts, he gives up. His attention is now attracted by a tramp at the window. Buster beckons the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    [Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business]
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster and Tige put a balloon vendor out of business | Title on paper roll: Buster and Tige puts a baloon vender out of business | Title in Before the nickelodeon: Buster and the balloon vender | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene V
    "Shows an Italian balloon vender near the "Flat-iron" Building, New York City. Mrs. Brown and Buster appear on the scene. Buster begins teasing his mamma to buy him a balloon, but she refuses. Buster whistles for Tige, and at the same time jostles the vender, who roughly brushes him aside. Seeing a chance to get a balloon for nothing, Buster sets Tige upon the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
  • Article
    The great train robbery H38748 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 1Dec1903; H38748. Justus D. Barnes (head bandit), G. M. Anderson (slain passenger, tenderfoot, and robber), Walter Cameron (sheriff). Camera, Edwin S. Porter, J.B. Smith, and others. Incomplete: material in the Edison Collection (viewing copy and viewing print, copy 2) is incomplete. Footages have not been confirmed. Differences in footages may be due to different methods of...
    • Contributor: Anderson, Gilbert M. - Porter, Edwin S. - Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress) - Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Marble, Scott - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Barnes, J. D. (Justus D.) - Smith, James Blair
    • Date: 1903