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Comedy Short Subjects: Birth Of Visual Comedy.
Archive film stock footage showcasing the evolution of comedy from a live stage medium to one of film. Easy to produce and gave a film studio's talent pool a chance to experiment and hone their acting skills. Short subject stock footage titles are from our public domain films and archive film stock footage library.
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BARNEY OLDFIELD'S RACE FOR A LIFE
MABEL NORMAND, MACK SENNETT, FORD STERLING
Woman rejects a cads improper advances, who then does the absolute classic villianous act of chaining her to the train tracks!
(public domain films) 1913 9 min BW (SILENT)
Silent Movies public domain stock film footage
BEN TURPIN - A CLEVER DUMMY
BEN TURPIN, CHESTER CONKLIN, WALLACE BEERY
Man finds out an engineer has built a robot that looks exactly like him, he then takes its place to get closer to the engineer's girl.
(public domain films) 1917 23 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BEN TURPIN - THE EYES HAVE IT
BEN TURPIN
Wife and mother-in-law suspect husband of having an on-going affair when all he wants is to be left alone to read the newspaper.
(public domain films) 1928 23 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BLUFFER, THE
ANDY CLYDE, PATSY O'LEARY, STEVE PENDLETON
Man tries to bluff his way to success only to have his chances comically dashed by the boss' daughter and boyfriend.
(public domain films) 1930 11 min COL
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BUSTER KEATON - THE BLACKSMITH
BUSTER KEATON, JOE ROBERTS, VIRGINIA FOX
With the real blacksmith in jail, the assistant tries to help several customers with devastating comedic consequences.
(public domain films) 1922 20 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BUSTER KEATON - THE BOAT
BUSTER KEATON, SYBIL SEELY, EDWARD F. CLINE
Buster's homemade boat, The "DAMFINO", is finished and of course, is the main character in a series of comedic adventures.
(public domain films) 1921 22 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BUSTER KEATON - DAYDREAMS
BUSTER KEATON, RENEE ADOREE
Buster out to make it in the big city, writes letters to his small-town girlfriend who daydreams his accomplishments to hero status.
(public domain films) 1922 18 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BUSTER KEATON - THE LOVE NEST
BUSTER KEATON, JOE ROBERTS, VIRGINIA FOX
Rejected by his girlfriend, Buster sails away to forget here, only to be rescued by a mean captain of a whaling boat.
(public domain films) 1923 20 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BUSTER KEATON - MY WIFE'S RELATIONS
BUSTER KEATON
Buster accidentally gets married, his large new wife to be takes him home to meet her four gorilla-like brothers.
(public domain films) 1922 30 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
BUSTER KEATON - STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
BUSTER KEATON, TOM MCGUIRE, ERNEST TORRENCE
Effete son of a riverboat captain visits his father after years of separation and the father is determined to turn him into a man.
(public domain films) 1928 69 min BW (SILENT) (SEPIA TONE)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
CHARLIE CHAPLIN - THE FLOORWALKER
CHARLES CHAPLIN, EDNA PURVIANCE, ERIC CAMPBELL
Charlie Chaplin in his traditional Tramp persona as a customer who creates chaos in a department store.
(public domain films) 1916 BW 20 min (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
DIPPY DENTIST, THE
SNUB POLLARD, MARIE MOSQUINI, ERNEST MORRISON
Dueling dentists battle for patients and the love of an irresistible young woman.
(public domain films) 1920 BW 10 min (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
FATTY ARBUCKLE - VOLUME 1
FATTY'S SUITLESS DAYS AND THE SPEED KINGS

FATTY ARBUCKLE, CHARLEY CHASE, MINTA DURFEE
Fatty's Suitless Day: Fatty goes to a fancy dress ball only to have his trouser magically vanish. Sight gags abound as Fatty attempts to save his dignity and possibly the rest of his clothes.
The Speed Kings: Daughter is infatuated with a race car driver and it's up to the father to thwart this romance.
(public domain films) 1913 - 1914 22 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
FATTY ARBUCKLE - VOLUME 2
FATTY JOINS THE FORCE AND
FATTY'S SPOONING DAYS

FATTY ARBUCKLE
Fatty Joins The Force: Rescuing the Police Commissioners' daughter gets Fatty a job on the police force, only to find out that this "cushy" job isn't all that it is cracked up to be.
Fatty's Spooning Days: Fatty is up to his old tricks again.
(public domain films) 1913 - 1915 26 min (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
KEYSTONE COMEDY - HER PAINTED HERO
SLIM SUMMERVILLE, POLLY MORAN, HALE HAMILTON
Woman deserts her fiance and embarks upon a stage career, where everything goes wrong resulting in comedic hilarity.
(public domain films) 1915 21 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
KEYSTONE COPS
BANGVILLE POLICE AND LOVE, SPEED, THRILLS

Bangville Police: At a farm near Bangville, the young farmers' daughter sees strangers in the barn. She quickly rushes to the house and calls the police. The police engage in a haphazard rush, as only the Keystone Cops can, across the countryside to get there in time.
Love, Speed, And Thrills: After Walrus is accidently shot by Ambrose, he is taken in to recuperate. When Walrus kidnaps and runs away with Mrs. Ambrose, the Keystone Cops are called in to give their unique version of the chase.
(public domain films) 1920 22 min BW (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
LAFFING GAS
CHARLIE CHAPLIN, FRITZ SCHADE, ALICE HOWELL
Though just an assistant, Charlie pretends to be a dentist and silent mime-like hilarity ensues.
(public domain films) 1914 BW 10 min (SILENT)
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
LITTLE RASCALS - BEAR SHOOTERS
LITTLE RASCALS
Chubby, Jack and Farina fancy themselves a big game hunters, now all they need is something to hunt.
(public domain films) 1930 20 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
LITTLE RASCALS - OUR GANG FOLLIES
LITTLE RASCALS
The kids are at it again. Mischief turns to comedic delight.
(public domain films) 1938 20 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
LITTLE RASCALS - SCHOOLS OUT
LITTLE RASCALS
It's the last day of school and Jackie has developed a big crush on Miss Crabtree and is worried that she is going to get married.
(public domain films) 1930 20 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
SHIRLEY TEMPLE - GLAD RAG TO RICHES
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
A children-only cast that tells the tale of a dancer at a burlesque joint called the Lullaby Lobster Palace.
(public domain films) 1932 11 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
SHIRLEY TEMPLE - MERRILY YOURS
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Mischievous little sister attempts to get into the attention spotlight by disrupting her older brothers' plans at every turn.
(public domain films) 1932 21 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
THREE STOOGES - DISORDER IN THE COURT
3 STOOGES
The stooges are nightclub musicians who are as witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer, is accused of murder.
(public domain films) 1936 16 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
THREE STOOGES - MALICE IN THE PALACE
3 STOOGES
The stooges run a restaurant in a foreign desert land where a robbery of the Rootin' Tootin' diamond has occurred.
(public domain films) 1949 20 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
THREE STOOGES - SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS
3 STOOGES
The stooges are tailors and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint finance company.
(public domain films) 1947 17 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
THREE STOOGES - BRIDELESS GROOM
3 STOOGES
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal.
(public domain films) 1947 17 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
W.C. FIELDS - FATAL GLASS OF BEER
W.C. FIELDS, ROSEMARY THEBY, GEORGE CHANDLER
A parody of a Yukon melodrama, a Yukon prospectors' son returns from the big city and hilarity ensues.
(public domain films) 1933 19 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
W.C. FIELDS - THE DENTIST
W.C. FIELDS, MARJORIE KANE, ARNOLD GRAY
Tooth-extraction turned into a wrestling match of hilarity as W.C. Fields tries his hand in the field of dentistry.
(public domain films) 1932 22 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
W.C. FIELDS - THE GOLF SPECIALIST
W.C. FIELDS
Slapstick golfing with the flirtatious wife of a hotel detective and the special talents of an incompetent caddy.
(public domain films) 1930 21 min BW
Comedy Short Subjects stock film footage
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