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.

A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger k...
Otie Otis forgets his own marriage and then stumbles through the honeymoon, constantly forgetting on...

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement reg...

Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all ...

Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the ...

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been wo...

Curley Smith, a lieutenant of the Texas Rangers, gets chased by a band of smugglers after getting ca...
Katie Abbott, despairing of being a wallflower, is about to attempt suicide in the village pond when...

“This hilarious bit of foolishness has for its theme the gradual rise of a hard-working plumber and ...

Buck Duane guns down the man who killed his father and flees from the law. He rescues a girl he once...
A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost. In this black comedy sce...

Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequenc...

Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy ...

Princess Cecelie of Capra, a small Alpine nation, visits the U.S. with her mother, Queen Charlotte, ...
A band of desperadoes employed as cow punchers take advantage of an ordinance prohibiting the carryi...