The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.

Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by invitin...

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt....

Babs Weston agrees to marry adventurer Richard Forestall before his hasty departure, accepting his r...

Sally works at a cafe resort in Paris. After dancing at the cafe, Otis, an American theatrical agent...
The sheriff, Dan Beckham, and his deputy, Bud Cameron, are posting signs offering a reward for the c...
A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaratio...
Before dying, a man's friend asks him to do his best to keep the truth that he was a robber from his...
A reformed outlaw give up the girl because of his past.

The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the trium...

After the divorce of Schuyler Rutherford from his rich wife Caroline, who was his meal ticket, Schuy...
Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition th...
John Gregg and his daughter Mary, on their way to Burro Springs, a boom mining town, lose their way ...

When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim ...

Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack...

This tells of a pretty miss, expelled from a girls' school, who goes in for a harmless adventure. Sh...
Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young ...
The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes two characters, then dies abruptly in a Trilby segment fr...
The sinister mesmerist Svengali hypnotizes a group of people and compels them to perform various hum...
The Leigh Sisters perform a risqué Trilby-inspired dance with an umbrella. Scene from David Henderso...