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
  • 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
  • 1910
    Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz

    Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910)

    Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz

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    Dorothy and the Scarecrow are now in the Emerald City. They have become friendly with the Wizard, and together with the woodman, the cowardly lion, and several new creations equally delightful, they journey through Oz -- the earthquake -- and into th...

    Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz
  • 1911
    Lost in the Jungle

    Lost in the Jungle (1911)

    Lost in the Jungle

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    Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on he...

    Lost in the Jungle
  • 1911
    Back to the Primitive

    Back to the Primitive (1911)

    Back to the Primitive

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    John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the same ship and is to act as her escort. At the same time telling her he will meet them at Cape Town. Aft...

    Back to the Primitive
  • 1915
    The Lion's Mate

    The Lion's Mate (1915)

    The Lion's Mate

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    Hamad, an Arab half-breed, is in command of the ivory traders. Allan Deane is sent to take charge of the ivory traders' camp, and Hamad is told that he can serve as assistant hereafter. Allan Deane and Naila love each other. She informs Allan that Ha...

    The Lion's Mate
  • 1910
    The Land of Oz

    The Land of Oz (1910)

    The Land of Oz

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    The Emerald City in all its splendor with all the familiar characters so dear to the hearts of children - Little Dorothy, the scarecrow, the woodman, the cowardly lion, and the wizard continuing on their triumphal entry to the mystic city, adding new...

    The Land of Oz
  • 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
  • 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!
  • 1915
    The Man from Texas

    The Man from Texas (1915)

    The Man from Texas

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    A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her in ill health. When he gets there, Texas finds her dead. He sets out to track down the promise-breaker and avenge his sister. On the way, Texas meets Moya Dalton, the fiery daughter of a ...

    The Man from Texas
  • 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
  • 1909
    The Cowboy Millionaire

    The Cowboy Millionaire (1909)

    The Cowboy Millionaire

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    Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and ...

    The Cowboy Millionaire
  • 1908
    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1908)

    The Count of Monte Cristo

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    Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas...

    The Count of Monte Cristo
  • 1920
    The Lost City

    The Lost City (1920)

    The Lost City

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    This 15-chapter serial was produced by Colonel William N. Selig, the former mogul whose large assortment of wild animals became the nucleus of today's Los Angeles Zoo. Selig's ferocious fauna added authenticity to a story about yet another white godd...

    The Lost City
  • 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
  • 1915
    The Carpet from Bagdad

    The Carpet from Bagdad (1915)

    The Carpet from Bagdad

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    Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in New York, steals the titular prayer rug from its Baghdad mosque. He sells the carpet to antique dealer George Jones (Wheeler Oakman) to fund the robbe...

    The Carpet from Bagdad
  • 1910
    The Sanitarium

    The Sanitarium (1910)

    The Sanitarium

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    A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him....

    The Sanitarium
  • 1914
    In the Days of the Thundering Herd

    In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)

    In the Days of the Thundering Herd

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    Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again....

    In the Days of the Thundering Herd
  • 1915
    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915)

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan

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

    The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
  • 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