Sidney Smith Filmes

In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering...

Louise gets hired as a maid for a swank society party, but the it's really a set up for a bunch of tough jewel robbers. She gets hold of the swag and...

Billie Benton, a cub reporter, goes to the home of Violet Reynolds, a society girl and settlement worker, and asks for an interview, which is...

CHEER UP - starring Cliff Bowes, with Virginia Vance, Eddie Boland, and Frank Alexander. Cliff vies for Virginia's affections with Eddie, but...

Two rival suitors plot to win the girl using fair means or foul.

A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any...

Maggie De Cray and her daughter, Maybelle, run a theatrical boarding house. Horatio Payne is a star boarder. Olga Petrino, a vaudeville queen,...

Amateur aviator Harold McNutt's hopes of taking flight result in an escalating series of high jinks.

Mortimer grabs an opportunity to take a truck driving job; Matthew intends to hang onto it.

Percy & Ferdie at the nursery minding their babies with the mentality of Safety Last.

“At Your Service” (aka James Manages a Restaurant), 1921, starring Sidney Smith, is a nice and inventive silent comedy. James and George...

Little Jerry elopes with a young girl whose parents have just divorced. The mother thinks the father (denied custody) has kidnapped her and, as it...

Jimmie Adams and Sid Smith comedy produced by Jack White and distributed by Educational.

A 1926 short film

An animator's dog gets the better of him

The pair are elegant down-and-outs in a park where a mother and her baby are having a picnic. Their dog steals the picnic basket for them but when...

The one-reel movie I saw appears to be a version of TAMING THE WEST (1919), cut down for the Pathe show-at-home market. Percy (Edward Flanagan) and...

The boys, applying for free bread, find that the sign is used as a stall by a bootlegger who is dispensing hooch hidden in the loaves. After breaking...

Sid Smith plays a chauffeur to James Parrott who helps a vamp captivate his boss while foiling a bank robbery.

The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."