SILENT MOVIES

The following films from the the Silent Movie era have public domain music. However, the music is often not synched with the action on screen. So while these Festival Films releases are in the public domain, they are best shown silent with live piano accompaniment.

All films are available on DVD or in Mpeg2 video files.

Silent Comedy Show - 6 shorts Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee Our Gang in Derby Days Charlie Chaplin in The Pawn Shop Harold Lloyd in Number Please Buster Keaton in The Boat Monte Banks in Chasing Choo Choos

Silent Comedy Shorts Charlie ChaplinVol. 1: Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) The Champion (1915)By the Sea (1915)

Vol. 2: His New Job (1915)A Woman (1915)The Tramp (1915)The Bank (1915)A Night at the Show (1915)

Vol. 3: Mutual Shorts: The Adventurer (1917) The Cure (1917)Easy Street (1917)The Immigrant (1917)

Vol. 4: Mutual Shorts: Behind the Screen (1916) The Vagabond (1916) The Pawn Shop (1916) The Rink (1916)

Vol. 5: Mutual Shorts: The Fireman (1916) The Floorwalker (1916) One A.M. (1916)The Count (1916)

Vol. 6: Later Shorts:Shoulder Arms (1918) A Day’s Pleasure (1919) Sunnyside (1919)

Vol. 7: The Idle Class (1921) Payday (1922)Work (1915)Police (1916)A Night Out (1915)

Vol. 8: The Kid (1921) 68 min.A Dog’s Life (1918) 35 min.

Buster Keaton

Keaton Karnival #1! Cops (1922)! Haunted House (1921)! Scarecrow (1920)! Neighbors (1920)! Balloonatic (1923)! Buster Keaton TV Commercials

Keaton Karnival #2! Playhouse (1921)! Paleface (1922)! Goat (1921)! Electric House (1922)! Blacksmith (1922)! More Keaton TV Commercials

Keaton Karnival #3! High Sign (1921)! My Wife’s Relations (1922)! One Week (1920)! The Boat (1921)! Triumph of Lester Snapwell (color, 1963)! More Buster TV Commercials

Buster Keaton Features:! College (1927)! The General (1926) Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)

Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd Vol. #1! Number Please (1920)! Get Out and Get Under (1920)! Bumping Into Broadway (1919)! Captain Kidd’s Kid (1919)! Why Pick on Me? (1918)! Ask Father (1919)! Pay Your Dues (1919)

Harold Lloyd Vol. #2! Grandma’s Boy (feature) (1922)! High and Dizzy (1920)! Never Weaken (1921)

Harold Lloyd Vol. #3! Court House Crooks (1915)! City Slicker (1918)! Step Lively (1917)! His Royal Slyness (1920)! An Eastern Westerner (1920)

Feature FilmsD.W. GRIFFITH Griffith shorts Birth of a Nation Broken Blossoms Hearts of the World Intolerance Orphans of the Storm Way Down East

LON CHANEY Penalty (1920) Oliver Twist (1922) Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) Phantom of Opera (1925)

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Mark of Zorro (1920) Black Pirate (color) (1926)

Other American Silents: ! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ! The Bat (1926)! The Cat and the Canary (1927) ! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - John Barrymore (1920)

! The Eagle - Valentino (1925) ! Foolish Wives (1922) ! The Lost World (1925)! Sally of the Sawdust - W.C. Fields (1925) ! Twinkletoes - Coleen Moore (1926)

Silent WESTERNS ! Tumbleweeds - (1925, William S Hart)! Return of Draw Egan (1916, Wm. S. Hart) ! Hell’s Hinges (1915, Wm. S. Hart) ! The Prairie Pirate (1925, Harry Carey)! Call of the Wilderness (1932, Caesar the Dog) ! Smoking Trails (1924, Bill Patton) ! Sands of Sacrifice (1921, Neal Hart)

! Starring Yakima Canutt: ! Branded a Bandit (1924) ! The Devil Horse (1926) with Rex the Wonder Horse ! The Fighting Stallion (1926) ! Hell Hounds of the Plains (1926) ! The Iron Rider (1926)

FOREIGN CLASSICS Joyless Street (1925) Maciste in Hell (1925) Cabiria (1914) Nosferatu (1922) Student of Prague (1926) The Golem (1920) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Battleship Potemkin (1925)