Alice Day stars in "The Way of the Strong" (1928), directed by Frank Capra.

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We request the help of bilingual users. We have in our possession rare films made in the USA that have been preserved in foreign archives and do not have English titles. If you are fluent in any of the above languages and in English and would like to make a contribution to Silent Hall of Fame, please contact us.

These are all films that we haven't been able to track down, but they have user ratings in IMDB and/or are known to have been in distribution, so the assumption is that they exist somewhere in private collections.  If you have a video file or a DVD, or a VHS, or 8/16/28/35 mm with any of these films, please share it with us so that we can show the film to the silent movie lovers of the world.  You will make a valuable contribution to Silent Hall of Fame and will help one of our silent movie stars receive belated recognition and glory.  We will give you a credit for your contribution by stating your name for all to see, with special thanks.  In addition, if you send us an original copy of the film as a donation, you may be able to reduce your taxes on your next year's tax return.

It is worth noting here that only because a particular film has user ratings in IMDB that doesn't mean that it exists, or that it has been seen in the last few decades.  Such is the case with The Big City (1928) and  London After Midnight (1927), both starring Lon Chaney and Marceline Day.  The last known copies of both films were lost in a MGM fire in 1967.  However, it is possible that these two and many other films may still be found in private collections.

It is also possible to find rare films locally. Please visit your neighborhood video store that offers classic and silent films, take the List of Rare Films with you and check if they have any of them available.  If you are able to locate any of these rare movies you will make a valuable contribution to Silent Hall of Fame and help your favorite silent movie star receive better recognition.  We will give you a special thanks and post your name for all to see and admire.

 

Here are a two examples of why we believe that many of these films can be located:

1/ a 16 mm or 8 mm film of The Way of the Strong (1928) was available in the 1970ies and 1980ies from a company called Kit Parker Films. So for a period of time it was in circulation and people did buy it.  This is why we believe that with the help of our users we can find this film.

2/ 16 mm or 8 mm films of The Wife's Relations (1928) and The New Teacher (1922) were available in the 1970ies and 1980ies from a company called Mogull's Films. We hope that someone will share these films with us.

Of course, you can also contribute any other silent films featuring our stars, which we currently don't stream and are not listed on this page. We would also welcome films featuring other silent personalities, especially those movies that have survived only in private collections and have been unavailable to the public.  As far as the films that we stream are concerned, if you have  film copies with better quality than the ones that we have on the site, please share them with us.

We will be adding many more currently unavailable and rare films, so please check back often.  You can download a printable file with these movies by clicking on this List of Rare Films. 

We a re looking for these films with Larry Semon:

The Fiddler    1915       
A Jealous Guy    1916       
A Villainous Villain    1916       
Hash and Havoc    1916       
Help! Help! Help!    1916       
His Conscious Conscience    1916       
Jumps and Jaelousy    1916       
Losing Weight    1916       
Love and Loot / An Amateur at Heart    1916       
More Money Than Manners    1916       
Out Ag'in in Ag'in    1916       
Rah! Rah! Rah!    1916       
Romance and Rough House    1916       
Sand Scamps and Strategy    1916       
Shanks and Chivalry    1916       
She Who Last Laughs    1916       
Terry's Tea Party    1916       
The Battler    1916       
The Man from Egypt    1916       
There and Back    1916       
Tubby turns the Tables    1916       
Walls and Wallops    1916       
Bears and Bullets / Bullies and Bullets    1917       
Big Bluffs and Bowling Balls    1917       
Boasts and Boldness    1917       
Bombs and Blunders    1917       
Chumps and Chances    1917       
Cops and Cussedness    1917       
Dubs and Drygoods    1917       
Flatheads and Flivvers    1917       
Footlights and Fakers    1917       
Gall and Golf     1917       
Guffs and Gunplay    1917       
Hazards and Homeruns    1917       
He Never Touched Me    1917       
Jolts  and Jewelry    1917       
Masks and Mishaps    1917       
Noisy Naggers and Nosey Neighbors    1917       
Pests and Promises    1917       
Plans and Pajamas    1917       
Rips and Rushes                  1917       
Risks and Roughnecks    1917       
Roughtoughs and Rooftops    1917       
Shells and Shivers    1917       
Slips and Slackers    1917       
Somewhere In Any Place    1917       
Speed and Spunk    1917       
Spooks and Spasms    1917       
Sports and Splashes    1917       
Turks and Troubles    1917       
Worries and Wobbles    1917       
Babes and Boobs / Babes and Bombs    1918       
Boodle and Bandits    1918       
Guns and Greasers    1918       
Hindoos and Hazards    1918       
Huns and Hyphens    1918       
Meddlers and Moonshiners    1918       
Mutts and Motors    1918       
Romans and Rascals    1918       
Rooms and Rumors    1918       
Rummies and Razors    1918       
Skids and Scalawags    1918       
Spies and Spills    1918       
Stripes and Stumbles    1918       
Whistles and Windows    1918       
Passing The Buck    1919       
The Head Waiter    1919       
The Simple Life    1919       
Traps and Tangles    1919       
Well, I'll be    1919       
Solid Concrete    1920       
The Stage Hand    1920       
The Fall Guy    1921       
The Hick    1921       
The Midnight Cabaret    1923       
Trouble Brewing    1924       
Oh What A Man    1927       
Pass The Dumplings    1927       
The Plumber's Daughter    1927       
The Stunt Man    1927    

More films with Florence Lawrence, all of which have a viewer rating in IMDB:

The Boy, the Bust and the Bath (1907)
Daniel Boone (1907)
The Clubman and the Tramp (1908)
The Christmas Burglars (1908)
The Girl and the Outlaw (1908)
After Many Years (1908)
The Heart of O'Yama (1908)
Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908)
Behind the Scenes (1908)
The Devil (1908) 
The Ingrate (1908)  
A Smoked Husband (1908)
Salome (1908) Vitagraph
The Reckoning (1908)
The Red Girl (1908)
Romeo and Juliet (1908) Vitagraph
A Wreath in Time (1909)
The Wooden Leg (1909)
The Winning Coat (1909) 
Two Memories (1909)
Those Boys! (1909) 
Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good (1909)
Trying to Get Arrested (1909)
The Slave (1909)   
The Sacrifice (1909)
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
Mrs. Jones' Lover (1909)
The Note in the Shoe (1909)
The Peachbasket Hat (1909)
The Prussian Spy (1909)
The French Duel (1909) 
His Ward's Love (1909)  
Eradicating Aunty (1909)  
A Baby's Shoe (1909)
Eloping with Auntie (1909)
The Deception (1909)
His Wife's Mother (1909)
The Brahma Diamond (1909)
The Jilt (1909)
A Wreath In Time (1909)
The Drive for a Life (1909)
Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)
Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)

More films with Arthur V. Johnson, all of which have a viewer rating in IMDB:

The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
The Test of Friendship (1908)
The Day After (1909)
His Ward's Love (1909)
Tragic Love (1909)
The Trick That Failed (1909)
A Troublesome Satchel (1909) 
Tender Hearts (1909)    
One Touch of Nature (1909)
The Two Brothers (1910)

 

More films with Robert Harron, all of which have a viewer rating in IMDB:

The Valet's Wife (1908)
Billy's Stratagem (1912)

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