Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP) Movie Trailers
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As a Boy Dreams Trailer (1911)
13 August 1911
A cabin-boy gets to take center stage during a riotous adventure story involving mutineers and pirates and buried treasure.
A Gasoline Engagement Trailer (1911)
10 July 1911
A lost film. Flora Powell and Arthur Lennox are lovers, but the girl's stern father has other plans for his daughter, preferring the Rev.
Her Darkest Hour Trailer (1911)
13 February 1911
A lost film. A Teacher is struggling to control her classroom. Her failure has evidently reached the ears of the members of the board of education, and a committee of the guardians of public instruction visits the school.
The Mirror Trailer (1911)
09 February 1911
A love story filled with amusing complications, but the contest is won by Dick because he believes that all is fair in love and manages to circumvent the fates which often decree otherwise.
Pictureland Trailer (1911)
20 February 1911
Americans arrive at their hotel in Cuba in a car, to make a movie. Romantic complications ensue while the cast and crew attempt to finish the movie.
Age Versus Youth Trailer (1911)
02 February 1911
A young man inherits a business, struggles, but learns about love and life from the daughter of his rival.
While There is hope, There is Life Trailer (1911)
24 April 1911
Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.
At a Quarter of Two Trailer (1911)
13 July 1911
A lost film. Dan Nolan is on strike and in the depths of despair. He resolves to steal to help his plight.
The Portrait Trailer (1911)
28 December 1911
While painting the demure little model, Vera, who sat for him day after day, Reginald Spencer was unconscious of the fact that she was falling very deeply in love with him.
The Toss of a Coin Trailer (1911)
31 August 1911
A lost film. Dan Gardner, a young man, is down and out. Arrested as a tramp, he is thrown into jail. He is released with but a single coin in his pocket.
The Stampede Trailer (1911)
17 April 1911
A lost film. Jose Almedo is a cattle thief. Marie, his wife, endeavors to assist him. Jose and his band plan to run off some cattle belonging to a rancher.
The Rose's Story Trailer (1911)
02 October 1911
A lost film. Gerald Kinney is a man with plenty of money and wild excesses. one day he leaves his club and motors out into the country.
When the Cat's Away Trailer (1911)
09 February 1911
Mr. and Mrs. Parker leave their apartment to the care of their servants, Riley and his wife, while Mrs.
The Message in the Bottle Trailer (1911)
09 March 1911
A lost film. Lieutenant Shannon ( Owen Moore ) finds himself shipwrecked on an island and throws a bottle with a message into the sea, hoping it will reach civilization.
The White Terror Trailer (1915)
18 June 1915
Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines.
The Convert Trailer (1911)
16 February 1911
A lost film. A young lieutenant is sent to the Philippines and is erroneously reported dead. His devastated fiancée ( Mary Pickford ) enters a convent and takes the vows.
The Maniac Trailer (1911)
16 October 1911
An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her marriage.
The Dream Trailer (1911)
23 January 1911
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.
Art Versus Music Trailer (1911)
20 December 1911
A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love.
Artful Kate Trailer (1911)
23 February 1911
The story opens with a pretty love scene between the Lieutenant and his betrothed, Kate Stanley. Hammond is ordered to join his regiment in Cuba and Kate is heartbroken.
Driven by Fate Trailer (1915)
13 August 1915
When fate intervenes to prevent a pair of desperate young people from suicide they realize their love for each other and forge ahead together to rebuild their lives.
The Fair Dentist Trailer (1911)
08 May 1911
A lost film. Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist.
Tracked Trailer (1911)
06 March 1911
A lost film. Dan Barret, a forger, is sought by Balfour, a detective. Barret finding the States a rather dangerous abiding place, goes to Cuba to avoid the officers.
The Better Way Trailer (1911)
12 October 1911
A lost film. Louis Perry is discharged from the penitentiary, having served his sentence. He immediately resumes relations with his evil companions.
Shamus O'Brien Trailer (1912)
14 March 1912
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.
The Master and the Man Trailer (1911)
15 May 1911
A lost film. Henry Jenkins, just released from prison visits his old confederate in crime, Basil King, who is living in affluence.
The Hoyden Trailer (1911)
24 April 1911
A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married to a sophisticated young woman.
Second Sight Trailer (1911)
01 May 1911
A lost film. Gertrude Edgar is loved by Tom Moreland and Owen Jackson, and Gertrude, being a woman, is inclined to a mild flirtation with Jackson, while loving Moreland devotedly.
The Rosary Trailer (1910)
11 April 1910
A pretty model with two rival art students (her father's pupils) in love with her, a situation not at all surprising considering how alluring she looks in the garb of a nun, posing for their canvas.
Her Generous Way Trailer (1909)
29 November 1909
A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
The Mistake Trailer (1910)
21 July 1910
A husband learns from his mistake after he wrongly accuses his wife of infidelity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Trailer (1913)
06 March 1913
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Mutiny Trailer (1916)
30 June 1916
Captain Gant is a hard man. The closest he had ever come to having a friend was in the person of his mate, Warren Gillcrest.
The Time-Lock Safe Trailer (1910)
17 March 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.
The Taming of Jane Trailer (1910)
21 August 1910
A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.
Behind the Times Trailer (1911)
01 August 1911
This is a touching story, faithfully told, and shows the devotion of a venerable preacher whose church has retired him because it thought he had outlived his usefulness.
In Old Madrid Trailer (1911)
20 March 1911
A young Spanish couple want to be together, but are hindered by the girl's parents. They try a ruse to get a chance to be alone, but it is discovered.
Irony of Fate Trailer (1910)
01 August 1910
A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
Old Heads and Young Hearts Trailer (1910)
11 July 1910
Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and what is more, their son and daughter like each other pretty well, still more, the wish of the parents would have been automatically done if the old men only had sense enough to remember the adage about the cooks and the broth.
A Manly Man Trailer (1911)
27 February 1911
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.
Their First Misunderstanding Trailer (1911)
09 January 1911
A long-lost film starring actress Mary Pickford. She received her first on-screen credit in this film.
Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens Trailer (1910)
28 July 1910
When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
A Game for Two Trailer (1910)
30 June 1910
A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
You Saved My Life Trailer (1910)
05 September 1910
An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is observed making love to the make-believe sweetheart on the stage, by the real, sure enough sweetheart who does not understand that love making in a play is only play, and very far removed from the sacred course of true devotion, there is quite a healthy complication.
The Call of the Song Trailer (1911)
13 August 1911
A lost film. Hugh Norton and Amy Gordon are sweethearts. Hugh receives an offer to enter the office of a business firm in the city.
The Fisher-Maid Trailer (1911)
16 March 1911
A lost film. Paula, the fisher-maid is asked by Ambrose Fenton to be his wife; she consents, and tells her father.
Once Upon a Time Trailer (1910)
08 August 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.
Debt Trailer (1910)
19 September 1910
An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.
The Call of the Circus Trailer (1910)
07 July 1910
A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.
The Doctor's Perfidy Trailer (1910)
16 May 1910
A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.
The Right Girl Trailer (1910)
01 September 1910
There is always a right girl for all of us; sometime, somewhere, somehow we find her. But often the discovery leads through strange channels and peculiar by-ways.
The Senator’s Double Trailer (1910)
18 August 1910
When a senator falls victim to morphine addiction, a look-alike double takes his place.
The Scarlet Letter Trailer (1911)
27 April 1911
Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx.
Ivanhoe Trailer (1913)
22 September 1913
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land.
Pressed Roses Trailer (1910)
26 September 1910
Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things.
Hiawatha Trailer (1909)
25 October 1909
The very first release of the newly founded IMP company (Independent Moving Pictures). A film shot at the Falls of Minnehaha in the Land of the Dacotahs, adapted from Longfellow's poem.
Sweet Memories Trailer (1911)
27 March 1911
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together.
The Count of Montebello Trailer (1910)
24 October 1910
Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.
Transfusion Trailer (1910)
28 March 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.
The Nichols on a Vacation Trailer (1910)
06 June 1910
A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.