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  • Film, Video
    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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    The voice of the violin Herbert McLean, Sr. has two adult sons, Herbert Jr., and Jack. He is also the guardian of a young woman, Marjorie. Jack is good and generous, but Herbert Sr. favors Herbert Jr. Jack and Marjorie share a love of music. She is a pianist and he is a violinist. They are playing a duet when Herbert Jr. enters the house. He spends a few...
    • Contributor: Edison Collection (Library of Congress) - Turbett, Ben - King, Carleton S. - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Brower, Robert - O'Malley, Pat - Fulton, Helen
    • Date: 1915
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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
  • Film, Video
    Keeping up with the Joneses. [Women's styles]
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3, Origins of American animation: Women's styles | Variant title on M/B/RS preliminary catalog card: Keeping up with the Joneses
    A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society's concern with material goods as an indicator of social standing, but the series was not as narrowly focused as the title implies. The Joneses were the McGinis's neighbors, but were not depicted. They were referred to as objects of envy, with whom...
    • Contributor: Momand, Arthur R. - Mutual Film Corporation - Palmer, H. S. (Harry S.) - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaumont Co
    • Date: 1915
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    Keeping up with the Joneses. [Men's styles]
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, vol. 3, Origins of American animation: Men's styles | Variant title on M/B/RS preliminary catalog card: Keeping up with the Joneses
    A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. The simple story lines often parody society's concern with material goods as an indicator of social standing, but the series was not as narrowly focused as the title implies. The Joneses were the McGinis's neighbors, but were not depicted. They were referred to as objects of envy, with whom...
    • Contributor: Momand, Arthur R. - Mutual Film Corporation - Palmer, H. S. (Harry S.) - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress) - Gaumont Co
    • Date: 1915
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    [Gertie on tour--excerpts]
    Variant title: Fragments from Gertie on tour
    Gertie is a dinosaur who lives in present times. She encounters a train and dreams of being the life of the party in her time.
    • Contributor: McCay, John - McCay, Winsor - Rialto Productions - Fitzsimmons, John A.
    • Date: 1921
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    [The centaurs--excerpts]
    Variant title: Fragments from The centaurs
    A half human-half horse boy and girl meet and fall in love. They have a baby and go home to their parents for a happy reunion.
    • Contributor: McCay, John - McCay, Winsor - Rialto Productions - Fitzsimmons, John A.
    • Date: 1921
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    Little mischief "Papa is reading his newspaper and his little girl tickles his neck with a long straw. Thinking it is a fly papa "shoos" away the supposed fly with his hand. The tickling continues now on the ear, and papa waves his newspaper around his head. Not yet content, the little mischief maker continues her fun, and the man loses all patience, and makes such...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - American Vitagraph Company - Smith, Albert E. (Albert Edward) - Afi/Holt (H.L.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blackton, James Stuart
    • Date: 1900
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    Dreamy Dud--he resolves not to smoke
    Variant title on Library of Congress American Memory website, Origins of American animation collection: He resolves not to smoke | Copyright title: Dreamy Dud resolves not to smoke
    Dreamy Dud steals a man's pipe because he is fascinated with smoking and blowing smoke rings. He smokes the pipe and the smoke turns into a ghost and carries him up to the moon and leaves him. Dud falls off the moon and down to earth. He wakes up on the floor of his room and resolves never to smoke.
    • Contributor: Essanay Film Manufacturing Co - General Film Company - Afi/Edell (Frederick) Collection (Library of Congress) - Carlson, Wallace
    • Date: 1915
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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
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    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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    The first circus
    Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation insert:: Tony Sarg's almanac: "The first circus"
    During the stone-age the Stonehenge Circus entertained cavemen and women. The circus had a dinosaur that doubled as a trampoline and tightrope for the acrobats.
    • Contributor: Rialto Productions - Afi/Uhl (Clement) Collection (Library of Congress) - Herbert M. Dawley Productions - Dawley, Herbert M. - Sarg, Tony
    • Date: 1921
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    Mary & Gretel "Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden in this surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title"--Origins of American animation 1900-1921 notes. "Mary & Gretel explore the forest and come across Rip Van Winkle, drunken woodsmen, and a bunny. They pluck magic flowers and a fairy appears and sends them home"--Silent animated films at the...
    • Contributor: Moss, Howard S. - Afi/Ashton (James) Collection (Library of Congress) - Peter Pan Film Corp - Toyland Films
    • Date: 1917
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    Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the circus An animated cartoon about the adventures of Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the circus, where they demonstrate their courage to each other by attempting to scare a woman.
    • Contributor: Searl, Leon A. - Herriman, George - International Film Service - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Krazy Kat, bugologist While in the woods studying bugs, Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse encounter a sleeping bee and an angry elephant.
    • Contributor: Searl, Leon A. - Herriman, George - International Film Service - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Krazy Kat goes a-wooing Krazy Kat's serenade outside the window of Ignatz Mouse meets with a barrage of bricks.
    • Contributor: Searl, Leon A. - Herriman, George - International Film Service - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Mr. Nobody Holme--he buys a jitney
    Copyrighted as: He buys a jitney | Title on MI Film and Television catalog card: Mr. Nobody Holme in He buys a jitney | Title from Internet movie database: Mr. Nobody Holme buys a jitney | Mister Nobody Holme, he buys a jitney
    An animated cartoon about Mr. Nobody Holme, who warms up his sluggish automobile with the assistance of a stick of dynamite.
    • Contributor: Searl, Leon A. - Powers, Tom E. - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - International Film Service
    • Date: 1916
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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
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    The phable of a busted romance
    Fable of a busted romance
    An animated cartoon about a workman who recovers and returns Miss Gotrox's lost purse containing 10,000 dollars, and receives a Canadian dime as a reward.
    • Contributor: Barré, Raoul - Powers, Tom E. - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - International Film Service
    • Date: 1916
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    The phable of the phat woman
    Copyright title: Phable of a phat woman | Fable of the fat woman
    An animated cartoon about a fat lady who attempts unsuccessfully to lose weight.
    • Contributor: Barré, Raoul - Powers, Tom E. - Ernst (Louise) Collection (Library of Congress) - International Film Service
    • Date: 1916
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    The dinosaur and the missing link, a prehistoric tragedy
    Prehistoric tragedy
    Uses clay animation to tell a story of prehistoric times. Three suitors, named the Duke, Stonejaw Steve, and Theophilus Ivoryhead, compete for the hand of Miss Araminta Rockface. Ivoryhead, an unassuming weakling, wins her hand when the others mistakenly believe that he has killed a large ape which was actually felled by a dinosaur.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - K.E.S.E. (Firm) - O'Brien, Willis - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    The good sport A domestic comedy about a wealthy young woman whose poor inventor husband becomes rich when he perfects the first elevator that ever stopped even with a floor.
    • Contributor: Fair, Florence - Eaton, Jack - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Brown, Arthur William - George Kleine (Firm) - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Flagg, James Montgomery
    • Date: 1918
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    Fisherman's luck "Two German anglers are fishing, with odd results. One gets a bite, and pulls in a length of stovepipe. The other is so astonished that he falls overboard. 50 feet"--Edison films catalog.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1897
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    Subub surprises the burglar
    Variant title from Edison films catalog, no. 185: Subbubs surprises the burglar
    Opens on a bedroom set, with a man in a white nightshirt asleep on a Murphy bed. The bedroom window is raised from the outside, and a man dressed in black clothes and cap enters, furtively looks around the room, and checks to see that the bed's occupant is asleep. The burglar then rummages through the clothes in a chest of drawers and, finding...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903
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    The unappreciated joke "Scene, interior of a street-car. A stout man enters and sits down alongside of a friend and proceeds to read a comic paper. He shows a joke in the paper to his friend, and they both laugh heartily. The friend leaves the car, and his absence is not noted by the stout man. An elderly matron takes the seat. Without looking up the stout...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1903