The Adventures of Shorty is the name of a 1914 Western short film featuring Shorty Hamilton, and the general name for the series of similar short films it started.More than 30 two-reel "Shorty" titles were released between 1914 and 1917. All featured Hamilton as the "Shorty" character, a cowboy with a trained horse—his "remarkably intelligent horse, Beauty."The films were initially produced by Thomas H. Ince, many were written by the veteran screenwriter C. Gardner Sullivan.