Kansas City Silent Film Festival 2021
26 -27 Feb 2021
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- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLinda ArvidsonJohn R. CumpsonFlora FinchSet in an early cinema house, this comic short illustrates the problems with the gals' hats obscuring the movie patron's line of vision.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsCharley ChaseEugenia GilbertEdith FellowsA family goes on its weekly outing to the movies, but the evening is hampered by an attempt to pass the wife's brother off as a child, a crowded theater, and the daughter's apparently contagious case of the hiccups.
- DirectorFred HibbardStarsMack SwainLouella MaxamMai WellsJust as the local movie theater is about to begin showing a picture, the star of the film arrives to see the movie himself. On screen, the star must rescue his girl from danger. In the theater, the star finds that not all of the audience admires his acting as much as he does.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsDorothy GishRandle AyrtonJuliette ComptonAn actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a servicemen's home.
- DirectorWilliam WatsonStarsBilly DooleyVera SteadmanMax AsherWimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck! Billy reaches the Von Ratseller mansion where a tough army sergeant is his rival. Army sergeants are terrified of navy guinea pigs, at least until they learn that the disease-ridden rodent never actually escaped from the zoo. Fortunately for Billy, a public health assault squad armed with gas masks and disinfectant sprayers shows up and starts spritzing. Everyone gets giddy and collapses. The addled Billy takes the opportunity for a smooch with his girl. And when they start to lose their nerve, there's always another giddy spritz from that spraygun.
- DirectorScott SidneyStarsDorothy DevoreWalter HiersTully MarshallWhen her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterEnergetic man steals kisses from passing ladies, until bystanders give chase.
- DirectorMartin E. JohnsonOsa JohnsonStarsMartin E. JohnsonOsa JohnsonA groundbreaking travelogue, Simba follows the intrepid American filmmaking couple Osa and Martin Johnson on their four year expedition over the African subcontinent.