Cinematic Era: 1911 Vintage

A five day drive up Britain's highest peak in a 1911 Ford Model T.

Mary is as stage actress preparing for opening night. Her part calls for her to shoot a Union soldier being played by her beau. Unknown to Mary another spurned suitor replaces the blanks in the prop gun with real bullets hoping to kill her beau.

Through a dream a young man reveals the early family history of his grandfather, who in October, 1810, while gambling with some friends, became involved, ending with the sinking of his body in the river, just outside the Royal George Inn.

Tweedledum wears his sister's new slit-skirt, and with a handsome wig and beautiful hat, causes a stir on the boulevard. His many admirers follow him around from place to place and even invade his parlor when he gets home. His sister puts them to rout with a stout broom and she and Tweedledum enjoy a hearty laugh over the joke.

The bastard brothers Fadrique, Enrique and Tello de Trastámara conspire against King Pedro I, who orders Fadrique to be assassinated and who, in turn, dies at the hands of Enrique in the presence of Bertrán Duglesclín.

The chief of the Sioux and the Cheyennes having fought a duel to the death, there is enmity between the tribes. In consequence, when the son of the Cheyenne chief woos a daughter of the Sioux he is taken prisoner by the men of the latter tribe and about to be killed. He is saved, however, by the girl's interference, but her chief's contempt for her soft-heartedness and desiring to settle the matter, ties her on the back of a wild horse and selecting two other horses gives one to the Cheyenne and one to a Sioux, telling them that the one who catches the maid wins her. A most exciting picture ensues that everyone will enjoy.

Wimpy Little Moritz needs to toughen up to win Rosalie, but ends up smashing everyone and everything in sight when boxing lessons turn him into a mindless fighting machine. (MoMA)

This is a non-fiction film about the Manhattan Trade School for Girls. In 1911, few women got education beyond primary school (especially in the big cities that were full of immigrants). Because of this, women were very limited in their employment options and received very low wages. The idea of this one year trade school was to help these young ladies get a leg up on a variety of trades. Oddly, much of what you see in the film does not seem that related to job skills--such as physical education

The cook has been the bane of many a family, but when it comes to stirring up a western ranch and getting the goats of the cowpunchers there is going to be something doing, and the doing of the something is full of interest, to wit: The cook is not satisfactory and the boys strike for a new "chef." They appeal to the boss and he promises them relief, and it is not long in coming from San Antonio in the person of a very swell fussy French guy, whom they look upon as a huge joke.

Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father objects. Later they are married, and Lieut. Osmond is denounced as his son.

Léonce Plumeau receives news at his office that his elderly aunt Ursule is very ill. After expressing his unbridled joy, he writes to his wife to urge her to go immediately to take care of the inheritance and to bring his aunt one of the jars of jam she is making. The aunt welcomes her warmly and shows her the will, which names her as the sole heir. Léontine returns delighted. Immediately after her departure, the aunt, who loves jam, hastens to open the jar and taste its contents, when she notices her nephew's handwriting on the lid.

Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to have lunch with an old friend, by the name of Dr. Renfrew. The doctor and Audrey, eating together, talk over old times and renew their friendship; she takes his attentions seriously and becomes very much impressed with his pleasant companionship. Night after night the doctor attends the performance in which she appears as the "headliner," and never fails to greet her with generous applause and a bouquet of flowers as marks of admiration. To emphasize his friendship or infatuation he sends her a string of pearls, begging her to accept it as a souvenir of happy days gone by. Through a member of the company in which she is playing, she learns that Dr. Renfrew is married, and at her friend's suggestion redirects his note back to his wife.

Paul Bertho sees a beautiful woman entering a carriage and is struck dumb with love -- which, considering this is a silent movie, is no impediment. Her husband, however, is definitely an obstacle in this split-reel Patouillard comedy.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est

Chinese people rob an embassy and the lieutenant poses as a Chinese person to row for help.

The Squatter's Son is an Australian film directed by E. I. Cole based on a play which Cole and his company performed throughout Australia. It is considered a lost film.

Calino decides to take a boarder. The gentleman turns out to be a huntsman. All goes well until pay day when the roomer refuses to get out of bed to pay his bill. He says that his pocketbook is in one of his trunks in the garret. Up goes the anxious Calino and his officious mother and sister only to find, upon ransacking each trunk, a furious African lion emerge. The hungry beasts pursue the trio in full haste and the complications and situations encountered are unusually comical. Calino never pays the board bill.

A party of tourists visiting an Indian reservation turn one poor squaw's head with the beauty of their wearing apparel. This Indian woman steals away from camp and decks herself out in the most remarkable finery. She is followed by her husband through the streets of the town, causing consternation everywhere. Ultimately she is followed by an English dandy, who mistakes her for a beautiful white woman, but they are caught in each other's company by the brave and the Englishman is scalped.

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski (Avrom Yitskhok Kaminsky)

Those who for some reason were unable to witness the brilliant tribute paid to the national aviator Juan Bielovucic can now contemplate it from a seat in the Olimpo Theater. The theater was packed, and the clear film, whose length of more than five hundred meters depicts in its smallest details Bielovucic's disembarkation in Callao, his arrival at the Desamparados Station, the journey along Jirón de la Unión, and the parade in front of his home on Avenida de La Colmena, was enthusiastically applauded. This film, like the previous ones premiered in this theater, was developed by the well-known photographer Mr. Lund, and is undoubtedly one of the best, since the minor defects noticeable in the previous films, which were only apparent to experts in the art of photography, have completely disappeared in this one.

Adapted from Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" and featuring the characters of John Harmon, Bella and the Boffins. A short feature from the Edison company.

Dramatised account of the plot to murder David Rizzio, personal secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots.

Another version of the Kasamori legend.

Lakmé joins the Emir’s harem to save her people, but commits suicide just as her lover Sidi arrives to save her.

Mary is from Boston, and she doesn't just take to the cow punchers as she would to the "rah-rah boys" of the Hub. Bill, who is a fellow of no small caliber, is looked upon by his companions as a sort of leader, feels a little miffed, but acknowledges she is the real goods and has some occasion to feel proud of herself; at the same time he won't stand for her snubs. The punchers await developments and make up their mind what can't be cured must be endured. The Captain, a classy chap, from a neighboring ranch, puts in his appearance, and asks Mary to go riding with him.

Lorna is a woman and she is all business when it comes to running the "L.L." Ranch and she has no trouble in handling it and the "boys" who work for her, especially "Jeff," her foreman, who gives her a hand. She evidently appreciates his services and thinks him a handy and pleasant fellow to have around, her "Runs" are the best in Texas. There is a question of title to her land. Finally the Supreme Court decides against her and she is obliged to turn the "L.L." Ranch over to Sir Reginald Coutts-Harcourt, in whose favor the decision has been made.

A man suffers heart break.

Bud Mars, a pioneer aviator, flies his Baldwin Red Devil biplane during the 1911 Manila Carnival.

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Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.

As early as the beginning of the 1900s Egypt had a special appeal to Europeans. This short collection looks at the country with a particular point of view: celebrating Italy’s presence there, especially its missionaries, and their alleged civilizing function.

Detective Nat Pinkerton is captured by a gang of murderous bank robbers known as The Black Riders, but he turns the tables on them in the nick of time.

Joy abounds in the little workers’ home when the three daughters of the family all come home wearing an engagement ring. When the sons-in-law come to visit, one in particular stands out. The merchant Black is wealthy and wears fine clothes, but the labourer family is quite unimpressed by that. They tease him for his airs and graces, eventually prompting him to take his fiancée by the hand and hurry out of the – in his eyes – wretched home. As time goes on, however, it turns out that pride comes before a fall. (stumfilm.dk)

Documentary that registers the inauguration of the church donated by Dr. Antonio Pirán to the town of Pirán.

A soldier in the American Civil War gets himself buried as a smallpox victim to avoid capture

Rival salesmen use every means of transportation to be the first to land that big order.

A train ride from Narvik to the national border.

A short film by Piero Marelli, exploring life in the Netherlands.

Kinemacolor

Mr. Joseph Close, ranch man, with his wife and daughter, visit the town for supplies. The daughter makes a hit with the storekeeper and it is with difficulty that the ranch man induces his daughter to leave. They return home, and the ranch man finds a letter in his mail box from Wm. Schrider, Attorney-at-Law, informing him that his brother is dead, and has left the sum of three million dollars to his daughter, on condition that she produce an official certificate of her marriage one month from the date of her uncle's death.

Nell Collings loved Newton Barry, who was a Northern boy. When war broke out Barry bade his sweetheart good-bye and went away to don the Union blue. Nell's brother fought for the South. The fortunes of war had brought a battle right to the doors of Nell, and two of the participants in that battle were Newton Barry and Tom Collings, the brother. Newton, wounded and separated from his comrades, took refuge in the home of his sweetheart. The Confederates tracked him there, led by Tom. Nell hid Newton in a secret closet, but was discovered by Tom. Seizing a musket from one of the troops, she held it at her brother's breast and there kept it until Newton was far away on his journey. When the war ended Tom was first to join in the glad welcome extended to Newton on his return to wed his sister.

A man dresses up as a woman in order to take part in the suffragette movement.

A Italian short film directed by Emilio Vardannes.

A parade of supporters of the constructed auxiliary language Esperanto, which is intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or "the international language". The word Esperanto translates into English as "one who hopes".

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it.