National Film Preservation Foundation: Contents

The Black Hand (1906, 11 min.), earliest surviving Mafia film.
How They Rob Men in Chicago (1900, 25 sec.), police corruption Chicago-style.
The Voice of the Violin (1909, 16 min.), a terrorist plot is foiled by the power of music.
The Usurer's Grip (1912, 15 min.), melodrama arguing for consumer credit co-operatives.
From the Submerged (1912, 11 min.), drama about homelessness and “slumming parties”.
Hope—A Red Cross Seal Story (1912, 14 min.), a small town mobilizes to fight TB.
The Cost of Carelessness (1913, 13 min.), traffic safety film for Brooklyn school children.
Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million (1920, 7 min.), charitable plea for the Detroit Community Fund.
6,000,000 American Children…Not in School (1922, 2 min.), newsreel story inspired by census data.
The Soul of Youth (1920, 80 min.), with excerpts from Saved by the Juvenile Court (1913, 4 min.), William Desmond Taylor’s feature about an orphan reclaimed through the juvenile court of Judge Ben Lindsey.
A Call for Help from Sing Sing! (1934, 3 min.), Warden Lawes speaks out for wayward teens.

The Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901, 1 min.), Carrie Nation swings her axe.
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce (1901, 2 min.), role-reversal temperance spoof.
Trial Marriages (1907, 12 min.), male fantasy inspired by a feminist’s proposal.
Manhattan Trade School for Girls (1911, 16 min.), profile of the celebrated progressive school for impoverished girls.
The Strong Arm Squad of the Future (ca. 1912, 1 min.), anti-suffragette cartoon.
A Lively Affair (ca. 1912, 7 min.), comedy with poker-playing women and child-caring men.
A Suffragette in Spite of Himself (1912, 8 min.), boys’ prank results in an unwitting crusader.
On to Washington (1913, 80 sec.), news coverage of the historic suffragette march.
Hazards of Helen: Episode 13 (1915, 13 min.), Helen thwarts robbers and overcomes workplace discrimination.
Where Are My Children? (1916, 65 min.), provocative anti-abortion drama by Lois Weber.
The Courage of the Commonplace (1913, 13 min.), a young farm woman dreams of a better life.
Poor Mrs. Jones! (1926, 46 min.), why wives should stay on the farm.
Offers Herself as Bride for $10,000 (1931, 2 min.), novel approach to surviving the Depression.

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat (ca. 1919, 40 sec.), anti-union cartoon from the Ford Motor Company.
The Crime of Carelessness (1912, 14 min.), “Business” version of the Triangle Factory fire.
Who Pays? Episode 12 (1915, 35 min.), a lumberyard strike brings deadly consequences.
Surviving reel from Labor's Reward (1925, 13 min.), the American Federation of Labor’s argument for “buying union.”
Listen to Some Words of Wisdom (1930, 2 min.), why personal thrift feeds the Depression.
The Godless Girl (1928, 128 min.), Cecil B. DeMille’s sensational exposé of juvenile reformatories.

Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (1903, 2 min.), actuality footage from July 9, 1903.
An American in the Making (1913, 15 min), U.S. Steel film promoting immigration and industrial safety.
Ramona (1910, 16 min.), Helen Hunt Jackson’s classic about racial conflict in early California, retold by D.W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford.
Redskin (1929, 82 min.), racial tolerance epic, shot in 2-strip Technicolor at Acoma Pueblo and Canyon de Chelly.
The United Snakes of America (ca. 1917, 80 sec.), World War I cartoon assailing homefront dissenters.
Uncle Sam Donates for Liberty Bonds (1918, 75 sec.), patriotic “striptease” cartoon.
100% American (1918, 14 min.), Mary Pickford buys war bonds and supports the troops.
Bud's Recruit (1918, 26 min.), brothers learn to serve their country in King Vidor’s earliest surviving film.
The Reawakening (1919, 10 min.), documentary about helping disabled veterans to build new lives.
Eight Prohibition Newsreels (1923–33, 13 min.), from Capital Stirred by Biggest Hooch Raid to Repeal Brings Wet Flood!

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