Al Christie Movies

A look behind the scenes at Universal Studios in 1915.

Helen and Nita work in a department store to make ends meet while they search for millionaire husbands. They meet Bill and Hank, who make them...

In order to get a job as a cook on a ranch, a young girl disguises herself as a boy. Problems arise when several of the young women at the ranch fall...

A father's plan to arrange a marriage for his son goes awry when the son marries another woman, then brings her back to meet the family disguised as...

Mabel Russell, on her return from Europe, is informed by James Leonard, administrator of the Russell Estate, that it was her father's dying wish that...

A 1914 comedy starring Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran. Bob (Lyons) steals a necklace from the woman he loves, Victoria, in order to give it back to her as...

Susie is forced to dress as a little girl by her mother and sister to make her less attractive to a man her sister hopes to woo. Susie, however, is...

The first of the series of shorts, featuring magazine-and advertising illustrator and syndicated cartoonist Jefferson Machamer, produced by...

Dick Martin, foreman of the Circle E ranch, tells Colonel Gray that his mother is coming to visit them for a short time. The Colonel thinks it's a...

Roommates panic and plan when they hear a radio report of a murderer loose in their neighborhood.

The boys are fagged with the long summer's work and are undecided where to spend their vacation. One day Eddie is idly looking over the paper when he...

A wife demands that her husband take over the household responsibilities, while she does his job, unaware that he is a piano mover. They both land in...

Niela is tired of her children's hour radio program and with the help of Lee they frame the station's top executive so that she will get a break on a...

Sailor-suited Billy Dooley must get a dress uniform from the captain's daughter, Vera Steadman. Miss Steadman is, of course, a student as a girl's...

In this short film from Educational Pictures, comic Joe Cook plays the title character, Joe Widget. It begins with Widget receiving an award as the...

An auto dealer arrives in a western town, at about the same time as a band of heavily-armed desperadoes.

William Beaudine silent romantic slapstick comedy short

Comedy Short

Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her...

A French language teacher finds a fortune in lost jewellery, manages to trace the owner and returns them. His picture is splashed all over the papers...