James Oppenheim

This short 1915 Edison film stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassination by Booth.

Characters in the film attend a movie titled Life's Mirror (pointedly directed by one "Lois Weber"), where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. A shop girl "stepping out" with her boyfriend watches her screen surrogate conceive a child and retire to a home for unwed mothers. An estranged married couple watches as the wife's onscreen counterpart, played by Weber herself, leaves an uncaring husband to return to her post as a settlement worker.

An elderly man refuses to donate money to a Tuberculosis fund but soon his daughter (Gertrude McCoy) comes down with the disease. (imdb)

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married but the guy's carelessness at their workplace leads to tragedy. (imdb comments)

Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost everyone, and the young Katerina is whipped to death. Before escaping to England, her sister Darya swears to avenge her sister's death. Years later--now one of the world's most famous prima ballerinas--she returns to Russia. Turov falls in love with her and manages to secure a meeting.