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The oldest Polish film from 1910. Recording of the ceremonial unveiling of the Jagiello monument at Matejko Square in Krakow during the 500th anniversary of the victory at Grunwald. The event was of great importance to Poles, then living under partition. The unveiling of the monument was an expression of their independence and dreams of a free Poland.
Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monastery church....
Early travelogue
A jester, a blind girl and a young doctor are the protagonists of this love triangle in a historic setting.
Upon returning to the United States after an extended tour abroad, Theodore Roosevelt is welcomed with elaborate festivities in New York City on June 18, 1910. There are views of Roosevelt and Cornelius Vanderbilt, the chairman of the welcoming committee, walking toward the Battery Park platform, with photographers lining their approach. Mayor William J. Gaynor greets Roosevelt at the base of the Battery platform, with the spectators' stand visible in the background. There is a side view of Roosevelt and Gaynor on the platform.
A silent short movie about the war-heroine Maria Bricca
Young Werther falls in love with Charlotte, Albert's fiancée. After the wedding, Charlotte still resists Werther's love and the latter decides to shoot himself with Albert's gun.
An early sound-synchronized short of a rooster crowing.
1910 silent western
The oldest surviving film in the Léontine series, this incomplete escapade features everyone’s favorite “mistress of mayhem” doing what she does best: wreaking total havoc and defying repressive authority. Léontine runs errands for a milliner, whereupon she steals the ludicrously oversized chapeau she was tasked with delivering to a valued customer. She adds insult to injury by leading her property-owning victims down a royal road of utter humiliation.
An ancient Greek legend comes to life, courtesy of the Gaumont studios.
Nellie Blair, the niece of a wealthy ranchman, and an orphan, comes in make her home with her uncle, and shortly after her arrival finds that the whole "Circle A" outfit, every manjack on the place, is in love with her.
A boxer and a minister are mistaken by the parties expecting them.
Silent film.
Mildred lives with her husband, the prospector Steve Clark, in an out-of-the-way cabin in the mountains. She is affectionate and considerate, but her husband shows little if any concern for her, let alone love. A newcomer of friendly disposition and good humor one days runs into Clark and later finds Mildred by herself at home. Lonely and lovesick, she is overwhelmed by his lively attention and apparent affection.
Hugh gives his dog to Nancy while he goes to sea. When Nancy's father runs out of money, he must return to the sea with Hugh.
'Red' Bowman is a worthless renegade, an alleged rustler, to whom fate has been unduly kind to allow him to escape so long the honest judgment and double earned punishment. His daughter, a curly-headed ragged little sunbeam, keeps house for him as best she can, accepting with model fortitude her brutal father's blows and lashings. When he beats her too mercilessly she runs away, if she can, to hide until his anger cools. One day he is interrupted in his amusement of "lickin' the kid" by a group of stern, determined cowboys, who threaten to lynch him if he dares whip the little girl again. 'Red' slinks away and postpones the lashing for another time. That night, he and a pal, another black-hearted scoundrel, make a raid on a bunch of cattle, but are caught in the act.
When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him a substantial amount of money. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
A frantic child reports to the tribal chief that her father killed her mother. The tribe chases and captures the man, dragging him back for tribal justice.
The hero Theseus with the help of his beloved, slays the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that demands a sacrifice of seven youths and seven maidens from Athens and Crete.
A fisherman has a quarrel with his fiancé who, in rage, throws her ring into the sea. An old suitor notices her bare ring finger and senses a second chance. While on a fishing trip, he happens to catch the fish that seems to have swallowed the thrown-away ring. Luck befalls him once again as later in the day, he wins a card game with the fisherman who, frustrated, has to give up his own ring. The old suitor is now in possession of both rings, while things only go downhill for the poor fisherman. (stumfilm.dk)
Factory workers make Christmas crackers, a process that is shown in detail. Later, a family gathers around the tree at Christmas and enjoys their noise-making toys. Finally, Santa Claus emerges from a gigantic cracker.
Ernesto Vaser gets a job as a shop assistant in a draper's, where every bolt of fabric must be examined before the lady chooses the first one she looked at. Vaser's erratic and weird course of actions indicate he is the only employee in the store, so he has to do everything himself, including serenading the clientele.
Cretinetti goes hunting with his friends, stalking the ferocious Chicken, and produces a typical Italian slapstick, which makes your typical Keystone slapstick look like tea time at the Ritz. Raw, bone-breaking slapstick.
Two American ladies touring through Germany happen on this little Spreewald girl and offer her a job in America.
A wanted cattle thief risks imprisonment when he tries to help a sick rancher and his daughter. He takes the man into town to see a doctor, and he is recognized and arrested.
Mr. Bumptious insists on wallpapering the parlor himself, in order to save money.
The Antwerp Zoo covers a fair extent of ground, and was already in 1910 generally considered as an important one. A large number of views of birds and animals were taken and hand coloured. In those days, the monkey house was in for much attention. People found that the various comic incidents added a touch of whimsicality.
Two next-door neighbors read the same article that makes them smile. They talk about it through the window. Shortly after, a peddler visits them successively and sells them, to one a uniform of peace officer, to the other an Apache costume. The two men come out in disguise.
Arizona Pete, typical bad man, is the hero of the story.
The golden valley is the area where Palermo stands. The documentary shows us the best-known beauties filmed with a fixed camera, slow tracking shots and split screen inspired by the most picturesque picture postcards. The Pretoria fountain, the big theaters, the funicular railway and the cloister of Monreale abbey run on the screen. The beauty of Palermo is also in the life of its people who are shown while meeting and buying at the fish market or at work building Sicilian carts to sell as souvenirs. The film ends with the view of the harbor.
A man takes the blame for a maid who steals a necklace, but denounces her when she weds another.
A little girl's caretaker is distracted by her suitor and in her absentmindedness fails to look after the child, who happily went after a butterfly…
Robert Graham, a rich land owner, buys a farm adjoining that of a widow, Mrs. Sarah Brown. In surveying the property, the report of the surveyors makes the claim that the Widow Brown's fence, dividing the two properties, encroaches five feet on Graham's property.
Cretinetti wakes up in the middle of his sleep and finds himself in outlandish situations, walking through a mirror and falling through the roof.
Released on June 7, 1910, THE TWO ROSES was Thanhouser's 16th release and was advertised as "A powerful, pathetic, pretty story of life in Little Italy." The film featured Marie Eline (Tony, an Italian boy), Frank H. Crane (Tony Prolo, young Tony's father), and Anna Rosemond (Tony Prolo's wife). In this film Marie Eline was billed as "The Thanhouser Kid" for the first time.
On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked his homecoming. Aboard the ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt were met by a revenue cutter, the Manhattan, carrying the Roosevelt children. TR then went aboard a larger cutter, the Androscoggin, and officially became a guest of the city. After boating up the Hudson River along the New Jersey shore to West Fifty-Ninth St., the Androscoggin moved back along the Manhattan shore to Battery Park, followed by a water parade of almost one hundred vessels. TR was greeted by Mayor William J. Gaynor at the Park, where both briefly spoke to an assembled crowd, with notables seated on a flag-draped stand expanded for the occasion to hold 600 people.
Madly in love with her master Marcellus -- a love that is unrequited -- ancient Roman slave Syrra scorns the genuine affection of Affrus, a fellow slave.
Travelogue.
Leontine goes to the park with her nurse and runs away. She torments a greengrocer, then sneaks into a tent show and makes mischief there in this typically amusing short subject about the brat.
The turbulent life of a loving couple escaped from a poster.
Spanish short documentary about the National Exhibition of Valencia.
Silent Short
The film is loosely based on Alexandre Dumas’ play about the celebrated actor Kean, who moves effortlessly through all walks of life in 1830s London. One evening he’s in the company of counts and princes, and the next he’s enjoying the company of poor artists at the city’s pubs. A series of infatuations drive him into a complicated love drama. (stumfilm.dk)
A girl robs a colonel and eludes a detective by posing as a curio dealer.
Dressed in his finest hunting gear and carrying a rifle over his shoulder, Oscar Stribolt leaves home to go hunting. On his way, he meets an old woman whose attempt at making contact he abruptly rejects. She takes revenge by casting a curse upon him. (stumfilm.dk)
We are taken on a delightful trip along the poetical Palermo Shores, during which we are able to view many of the most beautiful sights of the island, culminating with a glorious sunset scene in the "Golden Shell" on a summer evening.
Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her up, a fight breaks out in the engine, imperiling everyone aboard the train.
Fricot finds his father asleep and takes advantage of the opportunity to pour down his parent's hack a handful of itching powder. The poor man's antics in attempting to relieve himself of his distress are ludicrous and finally result in incurring the wrath of his wife and her mother, who set upon him and beat him until exhausted. To his amazement he discovers that the blows have a salutary effect and he submits to the thrashing. When the women finally leave him alone he arises well pleased, as his affliction has been overcome.
Noticing that Jim is partial to a drink, Ruth breaks off her engagement to him and turns to John, who until then had kept his love for her to himself. They get married and move to a cabin in the forest where John works as a woodcutter. In the meantime, Jim, who has become a hoodlum and ignores that his rival has married his former fiancée, runs into John at the lumber camp and challenges him to a duel for the same evening. He then goes to look for money to buy himself alcohol, and breaks into John and Ruth’s cabin. Surprised to find Ruth there, he realizes that she has married John and has given him a child. On leaving the cabin, he looks to the vengeance the duel is going to allow him to wreak. Yet, he eventually thinks better and, ashamed at his own idea and out of the love he still feels for Ruth, decides to spare her husband’s life. He shows up at the duel with a gun loaded with blanks.
A documentary set in Italian-speaking Switzerland, whose beauties are revealed through “phantom rides” on the Brunate Cremagliera railway, through sunsets in backlight on Lake Como and footage of the Bernina railway climbing up through snowbound mountains.
A salesman pursuing a potential client takes tenacity to new heights, and depths.
ACTUALITY. Workers leaving a factory in Denton Holme in Cumberland. Street scenes and local people. Street scene, children and young people crowded onto the pavement in front of the camera to get in shot. Crowds milling around before the camera. Boys and girls and young people leaning up against a wall, camera pans right to left. More people milling around and walking in the street. Young women and girls at the factory gateway, looking out from inside; some carry lunch pails. A whole mass of women and girls coming through the gates towards the camera, followed by a smaller number of men and boys. A dray horse pulling a two-wheeled cart holding a vat. More workers going through the gates; the gate keeper closing the gates and people milling about in front of the camera.
Robert Svendsen navigates his airplane.
Images from Härnösand, among them Sami people selling reindeer meat from sleds.
A silent Western short.