Arcadia Public Library

A collection of Chaplin's short films at Essanay Studios.

Dramatization of the life of Joan of Arc centering on her trial and execution.

Chaplin is a prospector who goes to Alaska in search of gold. During a storm, he becomes trapped in a cabin with another prospector and an outlaw. The outlaw goes out for help, but is killed in an avalanche. Out of food and on the brink of starvation, the other prospector has visions of Chaplin as his next meal but Chaplin manages to keep himself from becoming dinner. Surviving all this, Chaplin goes on to fall in love with a Yukon dance hall girl....

A partly fictitious account of the mutiny at Odessa and subsequent massacre of civilians, an episode in the unsuccessful 1905 Russian revolution.

[Steamboat Bill, Jr.] Follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his father to learn the ropes of riverboating. [Convict 13] Keaton struggles for survival inside prison walls. [Daydreams] Keaton tries to find his niche by trying out various professions.

Four stories from history illustrating intolerance, including Belshazzar's Feast & the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, told at the same time and unified by the image of a mother rocking a cradle.

[Our hospitality] A New York man returns to his southern antebellum home to find himself embroiled in a longstanding feud between his family and that of the woman he loves. [Sherlock Jr.] Dramatizes the uproarious exploits of a meek theater projectionist turned amateur sleuth.

A deranged hypontist uses a sleepwalker to act out his whims, bringing death to the unsuspecting countryside.

[The general] A locomotive is beloved by its engineer, who sets out to win the Civil War single handedly. [The playhouse] A comedy in which Keaton plays a stage manager, an actor, a monkey and other parts. [Cops] A comedy of errors in which Buster Keaton attempts to win his sweetheart's hand in marriage by becoming a successful businessman. His exploits climax in a chase with an entire police precinct.

The future. Metropolis is a wonderful city, high above the ground its towers stand. The people prosper, the economy is flourishing, the suspended streets are busy. But Metropolis also has a great secret, so hidden that not even Freder Fredersen, son of founder Joh Fredersen knows about it. He is spending his free time in the Eternal Gardens, when suddenly a woman shows up, with what looks like a class of children. They're from the City of Workers,...