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What's on Silent & Early Cinema 1894-1916

Channel 37 on RevStream TV plays the earliest motion pictures from the Library of Congress: Edison Company films, America at Work and Leisure (1894-1915), San Francisco before and after the 1906 earthquake, the 1904 Westinghouse works and President McKinley at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. All are in the public domain by age. It runs around the clock like real TV: tune in any time and you join the program already in progress, or open On Demand to start any title from the beginning.

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On Silent & Early Cinema 1894-1916 now: 13 of the titles in rotation

• Welding the big ring (1904)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
• Charlie Chaplin's "The Pawnshop" (1916)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Nosferatu (A Symphony of Horror) (1922)
• Charlie Chaplin's "The Count" (1916)
• Que Viva Mexico (1931)
• Charlie Chaplin's "The Floorwalker" (1916)
• Charlie Chaplin's "The Rink" (1916)
• West of Hot Dog (1924)
• Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie Shanghaied" (1915)