Movies: Selig Polyscope Company

  • 1910
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • 1909
    Ben's Kid

    Ben's Kid (1909)

    Ben's Kid

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    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
  • 1918
    Little Orphant Annie

    Little Orphant Annie (1918)

    Little Orphant Annie

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    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
  • 1912
    The Wreck of the Vega

    The Wreck of the Vega (1912)

    The Wreck of the Vega

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    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
  • 1913
    The Suwanee River

    The Suwanee River (1913)

    The Suwanee River

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    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
  • 1920
    The Jungle Princess

    The Jungle Princess (1920)

    The Jungle Princess

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

    The Jungle Princess
  • 1913
    The Flight of the Crow

    The Flight of the Crow (1913)

    The Flight of the Crow

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    Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son is waylaid near the railroad yards, stripped of a big "roll" and thrown unconscious into a box car....

    The Flight of the Crow
  • 1915
    The Guardian's Dilemma

    The Guardian's Dilemma (1915)

    The Guardian's Dilemma

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    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
  • 1917
    The Lad and the Lion

    The Lad and the Lion (1917)

    The Lad and the Lion

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    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
  • 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
  • 1914
    The Spoilers

    The Spoilers (1914)

    The Spoilers

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    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
  • 1914
    Chip of the Flying U

    Chip of the Flying U (1914)

    Chip of the Flying U

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    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
    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
  • 1912
    Monte Cristo

    Monte Cristo (1912)

    Monte Cristo

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    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
  • 1910
    The Range Riders

    The Range Riders (1910)

    The Range Riders

    01910HD

    Each year the unique surroundings and novel characters of this great and typical American custom is becoming more and more obsolete and in a few short years entirely extinct. Can you imagine a more exciting or sensational picture than a great cattle ...

    The Range Riders
  • 1914
    The Garden of Brides

    The Garden of Brides (1914)

    The Garden of Brides

    01914HD

    The vengeful Umballah, having delivered his three bags of silver and secured Col. Hare as his prisoner, departs for the Palace of Allah, leaving Kathlyn and Bruce tied to the tiger cart with their backs to the savage beast and facing another death, a...

    The Garden of Brides
  • 1913
    Pierre of the North

    Pierre of the North (1913)

    Pierre of the North

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    Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter. Both men propose to the girl, both are refused. Baptiste, mad with jealous rage, abducts the girl and carries her off to a lonely cabin in the wild...

    Pierre of the North
  • 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
  • 1913
    The Millionaire Cowboy

    The Millionaire Cowboy (1913)

    The Millionaire Cowboy

    01913HD

    In the mistaken belief that he has killed a cab driver, a dissipated Eastern scion flees West in this inventive silent Western starring former football hero Maurice "Lefty" Flynn and based on an original story by Darryl F. Zanuck. Charles Christoper ...

    The Millionaire Cowboy
  • 1913
    Alas! Poor Yorick!

    Alas! Poor Yorick! (1913)

    Alas! Poor Yorick!

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    A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor....

    Alas! Poor Yorick!