Movies: Century Film

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A feisty homeless orphan girl struggles with winter cold and hunger....

This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl...

A 1921 American silent short film directed by Fred Hibbard for Century Film Company and starring Baby Peggy and Brownie the dog. It was rediscovered in Switzerland in 2010....

Wanda Wiley stars as a very slow and lazy daughter in this excellent Century short. She gets servants to feed her and even plays tennis sitting in a chair. One day she decides to wake up to win the man she loves by going on an outdoor adventure that ...

A SPEEDY MARRIAGE (Universal-Century - Two Reels) This is a typical Wanda Wiley vehicle with a world of action, none of which, however, has not been seen many times before. They have taken the action out of about three oft-repeated comedy tales and c...

A Baby Peggy two-reeler...

The 'secretary' of a busy newspaperman is revealed to be a cherubic small child, Baby Peggy. When a rich woman's pearl necklace is stolen, Baby Peggy's employer promises to make the reporter who cracks the case Editor-in-Chief. The little girl seizes...

George working at a construction site....

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Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough they believe they are in outer space, and Dumbo takes a space walk....

Buddy, an office-boy in a newspaper plant, puts on long trousers to get a man's-size job on the paper, and impress his girl. His brother, a reporter, is sent to write a story on a mysterious eye that has been terrorizing the neighborhood, sending wom...

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The adventures of an escaped convict....

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Second Episode in the "Mike and Ike" two-reel comedy series and Ike is about to get married, wanting Mike to be his best man....

The daughter of King Neptune takes human form to seek revenge for the death of her sister by a fishing net. However, she falls in love with King William, the man she holds responsible....

Sixth episode in the Buster Brown 2-reel comedy series. Tige is pacing up and down, waiting for his master but cannot resist going in pursuit of a miniature dog in a parked limousine only to get very much the worse of the encounter. Meanwhile Buster ...

Teddy and Peggy are discovered working on the farm, but they are soon fired and leave for the city. Here a rich uncle is expecting his niece....