William V. Ranous

The Haunted Hotel

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterio...

Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

The Little Minister

To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl thr...

The Locked House

Bunny receives a shock upon reading about the attempted assassination of the Mayor of New York. He laughs off h...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare...

The Hindoo Charm

Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care,...

The Merchant of Venice

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how...

Love's Stratagem

Nell Connors is in love with Jack, a sailor, but is unaware that he was shipwrecked and is facing trials. Meanw...

Delayed Proposals

It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reach...

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

The Lonely Princess

A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione.

Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian

A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-f...

Vanity Fair

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of govern...

King Lear

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

Getting Up a Practice

Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his...

Little Partner

Agnes Vernon is the daughter of an old prospector whose hard luck leads him to turn holdup. The father is hange...

She

A mysterious metal box is bequeathed to Leo, a young Englishman, to be opened on his twenty-fifth birthday. It...

The Gentleman Burglar

The Proposal: The gentleman burglar walking with his lady love. They admire the grandeur and beauty of nature....

The Serpents

Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few weeks before,...

Saul and David

Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel

Yellow Bird

Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of th...

Hiawatha

Drama Short

Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers

Francesca, surrounded by ladies-in-waiting at the palace. Her father enters, and together they read a letter fr...

Jack's Chrysanthemum