Movies: Selig Polyscope Company

  • 1910
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    5.41910HD

    An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel....

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • 1898
    Something Good – Negro Kiss (Alternate Version)

    Something Good – Negro Kiss (Alternate Version) (1898)

    Something Good – Negro Kiss (Alternate Version)

    6.51898HD

    Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen. This version is shot with a wider view and shows more of the vaudeville stylings of Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown and their stage act....

    Something Good – Negro Kiss (Alternate Version)
  • 1909
    Ben's Kid

    Ben's Kid (1909)

    Ben's Kid

    61909HD

    Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck....

    Ben's Kid
  • 1913
    The Suwanee River

    The Suwanee River (1913)

    The Suwanee River

    01913HD

    The poetic and sentimental theme of the old Southland song is the moving crux investing an interesting story of love and comedy daring the reconstruction period, south of Mason and Dixon's Line....

    The Suwanee River
  • 1915
    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915)

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan

    01915HD

    Betrayal and duplicity in the deserts of the Pasha before a happy resolution....

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
  • 1918
    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie (1918)

    Little Orphant Annie

    5.31918HD

    Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts...

    Little Orphant Annie
  • 1914
    The Spoilers

    The Spoilers (1914)

    The Spoilers

    6.21914HD

    The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a specta...

    The Spoilers
  • 1908
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908)

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • 1912
    The Wreck of the Vega

    The Wreck of the Vega (1912)

    The Wreck of the Vega

    01912HD

    Five years ago the world was shocked to hear of the sinking of one of the finest and fastest ore boats on the Great Lakes. During one of the worst storms in the memory of sailors this great boat, the Vega, became suddenly lost and almost without warn...

    The Wreck of the Vega
  • 1920
    The Jungle Princess

    The Jungle Princess (1920)

    The Jungle Princess

    3.51920HD

    Feature version of The Lost City (1920), a fifteen episode serial....

    The Jungle Princess
  • 1915
    The Guardian's Dilemma

    The Guardian's Dilemma (1915)

    The Guardian's Dilemma

    01915HD

    Prof. Jaquin Delano joins a circus to study practical zoology. Old man Cummings is the guardian of Anita, a beautiful girl. Cummings rages because the circus tents are pitched too near his palatial home. Anita visits the menagerie tent, sees Jaquin a...

    The Guardian's Dilemma
  • 1914
    Chip of the Flying U

    Chip of the Flying U (1914)

    Chip of the Flying U

    01914HD

    When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as a cowboy on the Flying "U" ranch he restyles himself as Chip and discovers who he really is through a series of adventures....

    Chip of the Flying U
  • 1917
    The Lad and the Lion

    The Lad and the Lion (1917)

    The Lad and the Lion

    01917HD

    While on vacation from college, William Bankinton is shipwrecked. His mind a blank, he is picked up by a derelict ship upon which there are only a lion and a stowaway named Broot. After Broot commits suicide, Bankinton and the lion are cast adrift up...

    The Lad and the Lion
  • 1921
    The Mask

    The Mask (1921)

    The Mask

    01921HD

    The Mask 1921 film...

    The Mask
  • 1915
    The Man with the Iron Heart

    The Man with the Iron Heart (1915)

    The Man with the Iron Heart

    01915HD

    I.M. Mann, millionaire president of a large corporation, is known as "the man with the iron heart." James Boyd, cashier for Mann's corporation, is delayed one morning because of a dying mother, and is discharged. Then Boyd goes to Union headquarters ...

    The Man with the Iron Heart
  • 1912
    Monte Cristo

    Monte Cristo (1912)

    Monte Cristo

    61912HD

    An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zukor successfully sued and the prints were ordered to be destroyed. The film is now lost....

    Monte Cristo
  • 1898
    Something Good — Negro Kiss

    Something Good — Negro Kiss (1898)

    Something Good — Negro Kiss

    6.11898HD

    Earliest known example of African American intimacy on screen....

    Something Good — Negro Kiss
  • 1912
    Cinderella

    Cinderella (1912)

    Cinderella

    01912HD

    According to Vachel Lindsay, "the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers"....

    Cinderella
  • 1917
    A Trip to Chinatown

    A Trip to Chinatown (1917)

    A Trip to Chinatown

    01917HD

    I. Noah Heap, after giving a number of the race track patrons some poor tips, is chased by the copper, Welland Strong, who is ever on his trail. Noah's attempts to panhandle the crowd are also thwarted by the ever watchful Strong, who seizes and thro...

    A Trip to Chinatown
  • 1913
    Granny's Old Armchair

    Granny's Old Armchair (1913)

    Granny's Old Armchair

    01913HD

    Granny Willard, seeing the end of her days approaching, begs to leave her bed and sit in her old armchair, the bumble throne about which three generations have assembled. Her favorite grandson, Tom Willard, has come in from the farm with his buxom wi...

    Granny's Old Armchair