Cinematic Era: 1910 Vintage

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)

These materials document a double jubilee of emperor Nikola Petrović 'Njegoš' - 50 years at the Montenegrin throne and his golden wedding with empress Milena, which are accompanied by proclaiming Nikola to be the king, and Montenegro to be the kingdom. Nikola tried to bring noble guests and give this event as much publicity as possible.

Astigmatic, Max apologizes to lampposts, kisses the wrong lady, and is challenged to a duel.

Lieutenant Rose poses as a woman to save the Governor's daughter from a rebel's cannon.

The film begins with Max being invited to dinner with his fiancée and future in-laws. To be polite, he stops on the way at a bakery to bring along a small gift for the in-laws. Unfortunately, he steps on some flypaper and has a devil of a time getting it off himself. When he arrives at the dinner, he's quite sticky and this causes LOTS of problems--which would have all been alleviated had he told them of his flypaper predicament. The title of the print gives the wrong date and title. Although there may well have been an earlier version with a similar plot (a number of films, which Max Linder made between 1905 and 1908, are still unidentified) it is quite clear that this particular one was made in 1910.

The Flower Parade in Pasadena, an annual celebration, recurs each spring and outrivals the world famous Fete of the Flowers at Nice, in France. The parade is a marvel of artistic beauty in the designs of the many beflowered floats.

Documents how the poor people of Paris eat.

Directed by Louis Feuillade.

It is a film of a journey on the Central Railway from Callao to the regions of Chanchamayo, Huancayo, Perené, and Mantaro. It is shown in five parts, with a total length of 3,000 feet. It is reported that the film, with a total duration of two hours, “will be sent to England as an illustrative report for our country.”

Harry objects to May going to college and breaking into their courtship; furthermore, he declares that it makes girls mannish and strong-minded. When May reasserts her determination to go to college notwithstanding his objections, they quarrel and he departs in a huff. May confides in her chum, Anne, with whom she is going to college, and Anne advises her to return Harry's engagement ring and locket and put an end to his interference. May sends back the ring but retains the locket, telling him that she lost it. May and Anne are at college. May wants to send an invitation to Harry to attend graduation, but does not want it to appear that she is really anxious to have him come. Her chum suggests that May send an announcement without signing any name. This plan is agreed upon...

Earliest japanese horror film.

Fouquet is known for his magnificence and his intelligence. These qualities attracted Miss de la Vallière, the favorite woman of the king. During a party at the Château de Vaux, Fouquet invites the king, who is accompanied by Miss de la Vallière.

Mrs. Weston’s child dies and she mourns her loss. Meanwhile, two young girls are placed in an orphanage after their mother dies. They escape to search for her in Heaven, and arrive at Mrs. Weston’s house. She decides to adopt them.

Rival rustics run a race to win a girl.

Just scenes of animals - walruses, bears, lions, etc. - either in a zoo or in a place where they are being raised for going to a zoo.

With details of the latest fire in La Victoria, the great Argentine prize race, a stroll by well-known families through Chorrillos Park, a polo match in which English and Peruvian gentlemen took part.

This is the first film in an interesting series that the Belén company offers to present every two weeks, and which, judging by the success of this premiere, will constitute a beautiful collection of all that is remarkable and characteristic of Lima. In the film that premiered, we saw scenes splendidly filmed in Chosica, the Plaza de Toros, the Bomba Lima bullfight, skating, people leaving Mass, etc.

Showing the newly arrived animals.

Filmed by C. L. Chester and acquired by the Cinema Theater Company.

It is a film of a journey on the Central Railway from Callao to the regions of Chanchamayo, Huancayo, Perené, and Mantaro. It is shown in five parts, with a total length of 3,000 feet. It is reported that the film, with a total duration of two hours, “will be sent to England as an illustrative report for our country.”

Film recorded in 1910 by Goitizolo.

A captured detective is rescued by a dog.

Lost early Swedish comedy film. Story, cast and crew mainly unknown.

The film follows a young woman, named May Brandon, who dreams a medieval fantasy in which she is wooed, rescued and married by a loyal knight. When she awakes, she dismisses her fiancé and tells him of her dream. He decides to become the knight of her dreams and dresses as one, but the experience is unpleasant and ruins her fantasy.

A streetcar circulates in Tijoca, where tourists stroll along the edge of a waterfall, amidst tropical vegetation.

A short silent animated cartoon from 1910 about a clown and his dog. The dog jumps trough a hoop which the clown holds.

1910 comedy

A multi-national Arctic Expedition, either the 1901 or 1903 expedition.

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Large crowds are gathered to see Captain Scott's Terra Nova at Cardiff's Bute Docks as the ship moves away from the quay on her voyage to Antarctica.

A party of six hires a mountain guide to take them over increasingly vertical terrain in this one-reel short subject. When one of the men on the climb insists on playing amorous games with one of the woman, the guide orders him away, with ultimately tragic results.

One of the most noteworthy early films of the supernatural, and the first known kaibyo ("ghost-cat") film, This film was based upon Hana Saga Nekomata Zoshi ("Legend of the Cat-Demon of Saga") a kabuki play written in 1853 by Joko Segawa III in which a cat becomes possessed by drinking a suicide's blood and carries out the corpses's vengeance from beyond the grave.

Mulcahy’s Raid features a police officer who becomes entangled with a group of actors playing policemen in a film and enlists them to assist him with a raid on a cockfight.

Two prospectors discover gold but are captured by Indians.

Mrs. Damm and her children are seated on the porch when the postman arrives with a letter stating that their wealthy uncle would visit them. Mrs. Damm hustles the children into the house and they all get busy tidying things up for the expected guest. The boy feels the importance of the event but his sister is so lackadaisical she can't enter into the spirit of the occasion. Mrs. Damm, in addition to numerous other provisions, goes to the cigar store and orders a box of "perfectos" sent home. The tobacconist wraps up the box of "smokes" and lays them beside a box of trick explosive birthday cigars ordered by a previous customer, placing the name and address of each customer on the respective boxes.

A short silent film produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.

The saying, "If you want to catch a bird put salt on its tail," is a pleasantry of such long standing it is familiar to every man, woman and child in existence. It furnishes a theme for this well-drawn and lively drama of home life, a tramp's gratitude and the cordiality of the little child who loses through an accident the canary bird which was given her by her father. A tramp calls at the child's home for a "hand out." The mother gives him something to eat, the child provides him with a loaf of bread and sends him on his way rejoicing. Shortly after the tramp has taken his departure the little girl tries to hang the cage with the bird in it on a nail on the porch. The cage falls to the ground and the bird escapes. Her mother is provoked and reprimands her for her carelessness.

This is a sentimental little story of Mr. J. Booth Walker, a stranded thespian of the "legitimate drama." who has been touring the west with a company presenting "Othello." The company has yielded to the stress of bad business and has closed, while Mr. Walker, finding no easier way to return to Chicago, is counting the ties along the railroad. He comes to a small station, where several half intoxicated cowboys are assembled, and the idea comes to one of them that Mr. Walker be made to do a "stunt." They fire at his feet until he dances, but he is so adept at the graceful art of Terpsichore, that they soon watch him in admiration, and reward him with liberal applause.

A cowboy's daughter is kidnapped.

This is a documentary short on the eruption of the volcano Etna in Italy.

Rigadin pretending to be a doctor.

Mrs. Kelly runs a hoarding-house in the western foothills, having principally as her clientele the cowpunchers that work thereabouts, she meets with no end of trouble in securing a suitable cook that matrimonial proof, as the moment a fair queen of the pot and pan arrives she is besieged by the boarders, and invariably Cupid gets his work in.

A minister and a circus clown move mountains to save the life of a sick little girl.

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

A family, led by Mrs. Hardy, travels by prairie schooner to join her husband in the West. Cowboys are hired to escort the family through potentially dangerous, Indian-infested territory. The cowboys detect the presence of a pursuing Indian war party and intercept them before they can harm the settlers. The cowboys engage the Indians, scattering them in a brief but decisive battle. The family is unharmed, and the cowboys successfully protect them from the attack. Finally, they reach their new homestead.

Léontine lights up our lives with an electric battery, electrocuting everyone in her path. Her victims include two old ladies (played by men in drag), dancers at a café, workers on a construction site, a group of lackluster conscripts, and the local police force. To add insult to injury, she douses everyone with buckets of water.

Farmer Jenkins visits the city.