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Pierot - or are least a man dressed in a Pierot costume - stumbles remnants of a bottle of wine through a park. He looks at a statue of a statuesque young woman, Leeds at her, and collapses onto a bench. While he dreams in sodden splendor, she comes off her plinth to show him what he's missing.
A record of Italian emigrants on their way to a new life in Brazil.
Clay pits were operative near Cefalù in the 1910s. This brief documentary shows us the different stages of the manufacturing process: from the hard job of extracting and transporting it to the artisan craftsmanship of the vase-makers and the artists decorating and painting the objects produced.
A boy from a poor family grows up to become a successful scientist. The demanding work costs him the love of his life which he bitterly regrets, lying on his death bed. The film was found on four reels in a collection from the local history archive in Aalborg. They were registered as four separate films, but both the style of the intertitles and the actors indicate that the reels belong together. The film's program has not been found, which makes it difficult to identify whether there are parts missing. (stumfilm.dk)
Actuality scenes of Berlin circa 1910.
Max acknowledges his father-in-law's dinner invitation with a business memorandum to his horse dealer.
French documentary about life in China.
This was one of the earliest mass marches organised by the suffrage movement, and up to 15,000 women marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall to hear speeches from Christabel Pankhurst and other suffragette leaders (Ros Cranston, Make More Noise! Suffragettes in Silent Film).
A trip through the Pyrenees in the neighborhood of Bagneres de Luchon.
Vistas of some of the most well-known Spanish locations: Madrid, Barcelona, the bay of St. Sebastian, Burgos, Segovia, Malaga. It shows cock fights, the palace of the Alhambra in Granada and banks filmed from a navigating boat. The film ends with a sunset on the sea suddenly crossed by a steam train and with the picturesque view of a bend in the river seen from above.
A retelling of the King Midas story
At the breaking out of the war with Spain, Colonel Robert King is ordered to Cuba.
After seven years of traveling, Aeneas and the other Trojans are surprised by a storm that wrecks their ship on the African coast. Here they are led by the Amazons to the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who soon falls in love with Aeneas. When the King of Numidia, Iarbas, comes to marry Dido, she rejects him. But in the meantime Anchises appears to Aeneas in dreams, and commands him to leave to found Rome. So, while Iarbas’ army surrounds Carthage, Aeneas embarks secretly for Rome.
A animation film from Émile Cohl about a painter.
The action of this story takes place on the frontier of Kentucky in 1800. Inside a stockade several settlers have their log cabin homes. The family with which we are concerned consists of a frontiersman, his wife and four children, the oldest, Tom, a boy of fourteen, the youngest a baby girl, Ruth. The children have a constant playmate in a magnificent collie dog called Shep. One day the father goes hunting with the other men of the settlement. In their anxiety to be early at the hunting ground they forget to close the gate of the stockade. At about this point the adventure which is portrayed in the picture begins. Ruth sees a favorable opportunity to investigate the region beyond the stockade, and, while her mother is in another part of the cabin and her older sister is busily engaged in poking the ashes in the open fireplace, she quietly walks out of the cabin door and on through the stockade and rambles off into the hills. On returning to the room the mother misses the child.
Short film involving sculptures
Directed by Robert W. Paul.
When his owner is kidnapped by gypsies, a Bulldog leads the police to the culprits in this 1910 short film.
Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....
Short clip of Newcastle United v Barnsley FC in the 1910 FA cup final.
A short film.
A couple visiting New York City leave their hotel, and take a sight-seeing car to tour the city. They start with Grant's Tomb, and then go to Central Park and Times Square. At Luna Park, they feed the pigeons and enjoy some of the rides. They then continue to visit other sections of town, and they see some of the city's most prominent buildings.
The children are delighted with the shock waves of the breakwater Barcelona.
The funeral procession of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson through Copenhagen.
Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo on December 25, 1910.
Only sixty meters are shown. The following day the entire film (four hundred meters) is shown.
It contains footage of a lion escaping from the zoo.
The screening of this film constitutes the greatest record achieved in the field of national films, given its great length.
What had only been seen until now in major European capitals: that a party held in Callao on Sunday at five in the afternoon was seen in Lima in exquisite detail 24 hours after it took place. It is yet another success that puts the Cinema Teatro at the forefront of Lima's cinemas, as the footage taken yesterday is crisp, clear, and complete like no other of that spectacle.
It contains: views of the border conflict with Bolivia caused by a skirmish in the Peruvian garrison of Manuripe; the delivery of the standard to Battalion No. 18; football match in honor of Jorge Chávez.
Olimpo cinema company.
It is on display at the Municipality of Callao.
We do not hesitate to call the film that Mr. Goitizolo has taken on La Herradura beach the best of the series of national views. The beautiful beach with interesting water effects, the tunnel that leads to it, the Salto del Fraile with its historic bridge, a group of cheerful strollers, all this is admirably reproduced in the new film.
Peruvian Corporation. Filmed by C. L. Chester.
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.”
Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.
Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.
Students at Uppsala University do their best to succeed in life and love.
Max Linder and his fiancée, Madge, scheme to get a few minutes' lovemaking, for Max's prospective Pa-in-law is inclined to monopolize Max over a game of draughts or whist. First, they play a game of blind man's buff, and, while Papa is blindfolded, Max and his fiancée repair to the next room, and a blissful interval follows. Poor Papa is quite unable to catch anyone. At last the recreant pair steal back, and when Papa angrily removes his bandage the lovers are sitting demurely in different parts of the room. Papa is a little suspicious at first, but a new puzzle game which Max has brought diverts his attention. Seated around the table, they each set to work to unfold the puzzle. Papa soon becomes so preoccupied that Max and his lady-love are able so steal away. In a short time they return, and slip back into their seats, but Papa has not noticed their absence. He is overjoyed because he alone has succeeded in solving the puzzle, and has won the game.
A lost film by William D. Foster
A discovery of Bahia’s capital Salvador through its people, its houses and its various means of transport.
The ordination of a monk in Indo-China is shown.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson died in 1910. This film follows his funeral at the Trinity Church in Kristiania (today known as Oslo).
Early travelogue.
Opening with a view of the quaint and interesting town of Salerno, we proceed on a journey on the coast from Salerno to Amalfi, passing some delightful scenery, and viewing many magnificent buildings and other objects of interest, until we arrive at Amalfi, famed for its historical Cathedral. We have some fine views of this sacred edifice, both interior and exterior, and finally reach the famous Cappucini Hills, from the summit of which we have some charming views of Amalfi and its many beautiful water scenes.
The steamboat the Regina Elisabetta leaves behind Naples and heads toward Sorrento and Capri. To penetrate the chromatic wonders of the Grotta Azzurra, tourists are transferred onto smaller boats. A group of street urchins keeps watch at the narrow entrance.
Japanese horror movie from 1910.
An early view of Emily Wilding Davison in the multitudes of women in a mass demonstration organised by the Women’s Social and Political Union on 18 June 1910
Transporting the body of Leo Tolstoy from the station chief's apartment to a train carriage. His funeral in Yasnaya Polyana on November 9, 1910. Carrying Tolstoy's body out of his house in Yasnaya Polyana. The mournful procession of people to the writer's burial place.
Travelogue: various recordings of a train journey along Lötschberg, Switzerland. Opening of the Thun-Lötschberg-Brig section on July 15, 1913, part of the BLS line (Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon). Recording: Kandersteg, Lötschberg tunnel, nature images, waiting delegation. Locomotive type Be 5/7. Electrical depot.
A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army.
Earliest japanese horror film.
Charles Prince's wife has been acting strangely lately, refusing him admission into her boudoir. She has been trying various methods to refresh her skin, including putting a piece of veal atop her brow while she sleeps. Then, in a clear case of waste not, want not, she has the cook prepare the veal for Prince's meal. He thinks it tastes odd and it makes him behave in a strange manner.
A short silent film produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.
John Stuart, a young business man of the east, comes to San Antonio to locate for the good of his health. While walking about the city he sees an old padre, or priest, fall from sunstroke. Young Stuart runs to his assistance. At the same time, Marion, a young heiress, is passing in her automobile and stops to lend aid to the stricken man. They lift him into the auto and young Stuart is invited to ride with them to the Mission, where the priest lives. Thus an acquaintance is formed which ripens into an engagement between Marion and John Stuart.
A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.