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- A quiet village is thrown into turmoil upon disturbing a reclusive and feared blacksmith rumored to be in league with the devil.
- The knight Cecily wants to defend the weak, but her lack of skill makes her an unlikely heroine - until the blacksmith Luke comes to her aid, using magic to forge blades of supernatural strength. Cecily wields this sacred steel and charges forth to face a new threat; a cloaked fiend is unleashing demons upon the land, and though he lurks in shadows, the villain is closer than Cecily knows.
- After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
- Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
- A mystical, powerful ancient being seems to linger on traces of his humanity.
- Ishmael the blacksmith has no idea who Jesus really is. When Ishmael gets hired to make the nails for the crucifixion, reality dawns on him and he struggles to save his friend.
- The theme of the fairytale is the struggle between good and evil - albeit this time in a different guise.
- This Passing Parade short tells the true story of Vermont blacksmith and inventor Tom Davenport, who lived the first half of the 19th century. He purchased an electro-magnet, not sure what he would do with it. He eventually invented the modern electric motor. This is an unusual entry in the Passing Parade series, because the characters speak their own dialog, with narration at a minimum.
- Andy Panda is helping his pop out in his blacksmith shop and expresses a desire of his to shoe a horse. Pop tells him he couldn't even shoe a fly (laughs!!!) and decides to prove it to him by taking him up on the offer... namely by disguising himself as a horse (named Charlie) to fool his son. Andy agrees to shoe "Charlie" but the plan goes awry when all manner of disaster befalls the disguised pop culminating in his swallowing several magnets. The magnets within him attract first a heavy anvil and then a pile of burning hot horseshoes! Eventually the disguise comes off and Andy promptly shoes the disguise (thinking it's still Charlie) and proudly tells Pop, "Told ya I could shoe a horse!" Pop, still fleeing the horseshoes, asks Andy, "Tell your mom I won't be home for dinner!"
- A Terrytoons animated short. Farmer Al Falfafa is a blacksmith who gets knocked out by a flying horse shoe. He finds himself in a dreamland with various celebrities and a chase scene with Cleopatra.
- In a prologue, Johnnie, one of the village blacksmith's two sons, falls from a tree that the squire's son Anson Brigham dared him to climb, and is crippled. The squire is an enemy of the blacksmith, who married the woman the squire loved. The main story shows the children grown up. Bill, the other son, has become a doctor, and Alice, the daughter, is having an affair with the squire's son, who has just returned from college. Bill is injured in a train accident, and Alice, accused of stealing some money belonging to the church, tries to commit suicide. The blacksmith rescues Alice; the elder brother recovers and successfully operates on Johnnie's legs, and the film ends happily.
- The half-blind Sir Blur, who is both knight and mailman, torments a blacksmith with his bumbling.
- Wyl, a blacksmith, returns home to find that his village has been taken over by a tyrant. When he is commanded to make weapons for his enemies, he has to make a choice.
- Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Ulmer's film is a musical version of David Pinski's classic 1906 play Yankl der Schmid.
- There are two heir's to a property left by a deceased uncle, who decided to leave his paying business, a garage, to one (Paul Parrott) and a run-down, closed-down blacksmith shop to Paul's ungrateful and overbearing brother. Through error on part of their attorney, however, the inheritances are temporarily switched, making Paul heir to the blacksmith shop. His brother lords it over him and almost succeeds in annexing his girl, but in the end it is proved that Paul is rightful heir to the paying proposition.
- It was an accident that brought Fred and Lillian together. When a shoe came off his horse's foot Fred hastened to the blacksmith shop, and it was there that he met Lillian, the smith's daughter. Before he left she managed to slip into his pocket a horse shoe, the symbol of good luck. Fred later finds the horse shoe. As is customary he hangs it over his door. Later he again comes to town and from the express office gets a package of money. Homeward bound, he sees Lillian about to enter her house. In an attempt to become better acquainted with her, Fred feigns illness. He is taken into her home, where mustard plasters and bitter bills fall to his lot. The package of money falls from his pocket. Lillian picks it up. He tells her to keep it until he is better. Charlie, a ne'er do well, a friend of Jay, the blacksmith's assistant, eyes the money longingly. He confides to Jay about the ranchman's money and when an hour later, Fred has recovered and started back to his ranch, they go after him. Charlie with thoughts of the money, but Jay thinking only of beating up his rival. They arrive at the ranch and hold up Fred. But Fred has forgotten the money. Lillian rides after him with it. She hears angry voices in the ranch house. Peering in she sees Jay and Charlie viciously attacking Fred. Then the horse shoe over the door catches her eye. She snatches it up, dashes in the door and orders "Hand up." Taken off their guard, Jay and Charlie comply. They see through the ruse and turn again to Fred, only to find themselves covered with a six-shooter.
- Comedian pulls faces as he recites poem.
- The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints religious art in the village church.
- After their father's death, Ann and her brother Eddie carry on the blacksmith's business. Eddie has a weakness for liquor; Ann's aware and tries to guard against it. Absolutely fearless and of a determined nature, she at one time enters the saloon and almost drags him out. The same evening, Eddie's thirst returns and he sneaks out and rejoins his companions. He remains until the closing hour and, stupefied from his evening's carouse, dozes on the porch outside. Shortly after midnight, the saloonkeeper is robbed by a couple of desperadoes. He is awakened by their knocking over a chair and Eddie is also roused. The two robbers make their escape, and as Eddie rises to his feet, the proprietor, thinking him one of the thieves, fires at him. He rushes home, pursued by the proprietor. Ann tells them both she will settle the matter. Next morning the sheriff serves a warrant upon Eddie and takes him to jail. Ann starts out on the trail of the bandits and locates them in an isolated shack. At a favorable moment she seizes a revolver from one of the men and forces them towards the door. An unexpected diversion occurs, giving them an opportunity to wrest the gun away from her. She is strong as a lion, but they soon get the upper hand and only the sheriff's timely arrival prevents a serious result. The rascals are led off to jail, Eddie is freed, and the sheriff asks Ann if she will marry him. She assents and "Ann the Blacksmith" becomes "Ann the Sheriff's Wife."
- The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother and answer the call of duty to his country. The misfortunes of war claim Mace, and at night as Joe, sorely wounded, limps off the battlefield, he leaves Mace for dead. Soldiers burying the dead, discover life in Mace and he is hurried to the hospital, where the surgeons succeed in reviving him. Thinking Mace dead, Joe writes to his mother of this tragedy, and she sadly shows the letter to the wife. Joe returns. Mace's widow calls for the details of his death. After recovering from the operation it is found that Mace's mind is affected, and he is taken to an asylum for treatment. A year passes and we see Joe a sturdy blacksmith, being visited in his shop by his mother and the widow with whom he is plainly in love, but he lacks the courage to tell her so. Finally one Sunday on the way home from church, he manages to slip a note into her hand. He has asked her to place a lamp in the window that night if his answer is to be "yes." Fearfully Joe watches for that light and is overjoyed when it appears. Mary accepts him. At the close of another year, Joe and Mary are supremely happy in the possession of a baby. These two years have completely restored Mace to health and reason and he is discharged from the asylum. So he goes back to his home. Mace seeks his friend Joe. The horror of recognition almost makes a madman of Joe, and when Mary comes in and sees this man as if from the dead, the shock is so great she falls insensible upon the floor. Poor Mary must decide between them. She loves Joe twofold, for himself and also because he is the father of her child. But old fashioned ideas of honor compel her to sorrowfully place her baby in the arms of the father, and to go with her lawful husband.
- This picture portrays a typical country blacksmith shop in which the artisan is seen shoeing a horse, assisted by another blacksmith. This is an interesting and beautiful subject and is bound to interest all who witness it.
- Lottie Brown lives with her parents in a little settlement not far from St. Louis. Village blacksmith Dave is desperately in love with her but she doesn't welcome his attentions. One fateful day city chap Ned Tolliver arrives in the village on a hunting trip and the Browns take him in as a boarder. Lottie falls in love with the newcomer and in answer to Dave's frenzied remonstrance, she breaks with him entirely. Things run along the even tenor of their way until one day Ned receives a letter from a friend in the city, reproaching him for deserting his friends and urging him to return. By this time he has tired of his country girl; leaving a note of farewell for her he sneaks out under cover of night. The shock overwhelms the delicate Lottie, who never recovers from the blow. She fades away, and in the delirium of her illness she constantly calls for her recalcitrant lover. Dave, whose devotion nothing can kill, determines to bring the city man to her side, hoping this will save her. He goes to the city after him and forces him to return, but they arrive too late. Bidding Tolliver return whence he came and be thankful that he is permitted to do so with a whole skin, Dave sadly returns to the bedside of the woman he had loved, who cold in death, he could claim as his own at last, with no one to dispute his right.
- In the eighteenth century, tradesmen passed along their skills and knowledge, the art and mystery of their trades to their apprentices. With mechanization, many of those skills were lost, but through research and practice, the tradesmen and women of Colonial Williamsburg have re-learned those arts and mysteries. In this video, Colonial Williamsburg blacksmiths demonstrate some of the fundamental techniques used to shape hot iron. They show how each process leaves telltale signs that give wrought ironwork its distinctive character and allow modern day tradesmen to read how an antique piece was made. They apply these techniques to manufacture a fireplace and iron patterned after an 18th century original.
- Forged from Fire tells the story of how an Australian and international community of blacksmiths, welders, artists and volunteers responded to the devastating Black Saturday bush-fires by creating perhaps the most ambitious public artwork and memorial in Australia - a three tonne, 9.8-meter tall stainless steel and copper gum tree - The Blacksmiths' Tree.
- The film tells the story of a strike by the iron workers in a large factory. Their demands having been refused, they walk out. One of their leaders, the father of a family, is begged by his children to give them bread, and unable to resist their appeals, goes to his fellow-workmen and asks them to yield and return to work. An argument ensues; he is branded a scab and coward, and in his frenzy grasps a hammer and strikes his chief opponent, who is supposed to be killed. He is arrested, tried and acquitted. The strike is compromised, the men's demands having been partly met. and peace again reigns.
- The pretty sister of the local blacksmith is met and accosted by an unscrupulous gentleman, who, attracted by her good looks, forces a kiss from her in spite of her remonstrances. The scene changes to the blacksmith forge, where the brother of the insulted girl is at work at his trade. The girls enters excitedly and tells her brother of the slight which has been put upon her. The story is hardly finished when the "ne'er do well" gentleman rides into the forge to have his horse shod. The girl recognizes and accuses him to her brother, who in his rage knocks him down. The gentleman goes off swearing vengeance for the blow, and is next seen consorting with a number of ruffians in a mountain cave where the ruin of the blacksmith is plotted, and the tools hired to carry out the revengeful purpose. The possession of firearms was a penal offense in Ireland at this time, and accordingly the myrmidons hide a number of rifles under the blacksmith's forge and accuse him before the magistrate of having placed them there. Perjured testimony prevails and the unfortunate blacksmith is ultimately sentenced to death. A plan is formed by the mother and sister of the blacksmith hero by which his escape from prison is successfully accomplished, the details of which form a very interesting part of the picture. Once escaped, the blacksmith devotes himself to unearthing his accusers and finally brings home the guilt to them, placing the crime in the right place and securing his own free pardon, amid general rejoicing.
- The blacksmith has been around for thousands of years but with recent changes in production and advances in automation the landscape is changing. Brian Keechle is a blacksmith in hopes of keeping the old world traditions intact for future generations to remember and make use of.
- A story about the love affairs of a young blacksmith, who deserts his own sweetheart for an artist's model, who turns out to be married.
- The life of a blacksmith (shown while song is sung.)
- The daughter of the blacksmith elopes with the blacksmith's helper, and in the barber shop which she has inherited, a series of amusing incidents happen through the incompetence of the barber.
- An old blacksmith dies. One son takes over as smithy. The other is a hunchbacked cellist.
- It is Sunday in Cobweb Corners. The ring of hammer in our hero's blacksmith shop is silent. The melody of a hymn steals out of the village church. The village belle is flirting with the simple-hearted smith. It is Monday, and the village belle is plunged in sorrow. Hiram Hardheart demands her hand in marriage. He will foreclose the mortgage. Enter the smith. Exit the villain. Fate opens the way to pay off the mortgage. The smith challenges One Punch Murph. They fight for a purse of $1,000. The village belle in boy's clothing sits near the ring, to urge her sturdy champion on. Round one. Saved by the bell. Round two. The blacksmith knocks out everybody, including the referee. Hardheart gets the money and the smith gets the girl.