Movies: General Film Company

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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnersh...

Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Qu...

An Italian laborer is mistakenly accused of kidnapping the child of one of his clients....

Lee Clay is convicted by the jury and sent to prison for ten years. Tom, the son, swears revenge and determines to kill his brother-in-law for testifying against his father. Helen, the wife of Tom, goes to warn her brother. In trying to save him from...

An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert. After being discovered by wandering Bedouins, Dr. Cochran embraces their practices and begins to fall in love wit...

Initially, Hughie finds his new cook Jane unsatisfactory, until he tries several others....

An archeologist discovers an ancient parchment inside a mummy case, and realizes that he is the reincarnation of the lover of an Egyptian princess who took her own life many centuries earlier....

Short silent drama...

A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army....

Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners...

A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies atop the track. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle....

Roy Conover has just returned to his village home from college....

A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack and rifle the contents. Morrison, postmaster at Bell, has been systematically robbing the mails and ben...

Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam....

Sidney Edwards finds a horseshoe, but his bad luck starts immediately. After several incidents, his son quietly borrows the horseshoe, perhaps to turn their family's luck around....

Colonel de Valpeau lives alone with his negro servant, Zeno. Being pressed for funds, the Colonel is refused a loan on the hereditary estate, and is threatened with eviction....

An accidental death on a hunting trip results in an innocent young man being accused of murder....

Looking for love in the tea garden...

A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionary leader battling evil government spies in Argentina....

Dr. Spencer's wife becomes intensely jealous when she finds, in her husband's coat, a note signed "Mary," which asks him to visit the writer at the Hotel Mum. The woman carries her tale of woe to Attorney Thomas, a family friend. In his effort to mak...