In an unprecedented move for its day in 1915, Biograph Company executives hired actor Bert Williams to star, produce, direct, and write his own films, having full control, the first time a Black-American ever had such control given by a mainstream movie company. The two films made for Biograph were A Natural Born Gambler (1916) and Fish (1916). Bert lives in a rustic-looking cottage with his parents and two much younger brothers. The three sons have been ordered to chop wood, but Bert would rather shirk his chores and go fishing. When his father orders him to take kindling to the stove, Bert sighs and wearily totes a couple of tiny sticks while his kid brothers carry large stumps. As soon as he can manage to escape Bert does so, and happily fishes at a nearby stream. Almost immediately he catches a large fish, and decides to head for a more affluent neighborhood to sell his catch to anyone willing to buy it.
In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger.
Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time.
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman.
An important example of amateur filmmaking during this era, That Ice Ticket was made by Angela Murray Gibson who ran Gibson Studios in the small community of Casselton, North Dakota.
Baby Bubbles torments her babysitting grandmother (Sunshine Hart) while her parents enjoy a rare night out at the movies.
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Fish (1916) - Bert Williams Silent Film
In an unprecedented move for its day in 1915 Biograph Company executives hired actor Bert Williams to star produce direct and write his own films having full ...
Fish 1916 Biograph silent film Bert Williams star and director from 16mm early Hollywood
Here is Bert Williams' silent classic Fish transferred by me from my 16mm film. In an unprecedented move for its day Biograph hired Vaudeville star Bert Williams ...
THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH (1916) Douglas Fairbanks
Fairbanks' classic Sherlock Holmes parody. Written by Tod Browning (Dracula Freaks London After Midnight) and directed by John Emmerson Music: Kevin ...
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916
Director: John Emerson. With Douglas Fairbanks in the role of detective Coke Ennyday.
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916
Fish full hd movie trailer.
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) - Coke Ennyday drinks & dopes
View a clip of Douglas Fairbanks' most zany off-the-wall film featuring opium smuggling and cocaine-on-demand in this 1916 send-up of Sherlock Holmes his ...
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Fatima decides she needs to reduce her weight. Inspired by the example of famous actress and beauty icon Lillian Russell, she attempts to "roll it off" through various weight-loss methods.
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict.
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.
