Cinematic Era: 1911 Vintage

The first ever Norwegian fiction film. The film is lost.

Adaptation of the Jacob Gordin play.

Two gypsy girls playing for money in the streets are seen by a susceptible fellow, who follows them and finally engages one in conversation. He takes her out on the lake for a row and is discovered by the girl's father on their return to the shore. The father in his terrible rage drags the girl to the bridge and picking her up bodily throws her into the waters beneath. The lover sees the deed, calls the police and has the gypsy arrested, and plunging into the stream from the bridge rescues the girl of his dreams.

Blowing explosives in the ocean.

To reassure his fans, Max Linder has been filming with his family at his place of convalescence...

The story is founded on fact. In a village on the south coast of England, young Margaret Catchpole is being courted by two rivals, Will Laud, a smuggler, and Lieutenant Barry of the coast guards. She favours Laud, and when he escapes from custody after a government raid on the smugglers, Margaret steals a horse and tries to join him. In a fight with the coast guards, Laud is killed an Margaret is arrested for horse-stealing and transported to Botany Bay. Only part of the film survives today.

A married trapper wins the heart of an Indian maid and is married to her. After the wedding night he returns to his other wife and family. The Indian discovers this bigamy and determines to kill him, but seeing the love he has for her daughter, she jumps off a cliff instead, hoping to meet again in the "Happy Hunting Ground."

The myth, which is beautifully told on the screen, shows the stages of the struggle between the little love God and his inveterate enemy, Satan.

Tweedledum gets chased by police on bicycles.

The young son of a wealthy Mexican house returns home from school. He is the only son of a widowed mother, whose heart beats only for him. He becomes fascinated by a pretty but low barmaid, who really returns his love, he being the first person she has truly loved.

Celebrations of "Childrens Day" with parades.

It's a stop-motion film of various toy cars engaging in a race amongst the dolls and dollhouses.

A man leaves his wife, along with his daughter dressed in boys clothing.

Old Jim Lacey and his daughter operate a stagecoach in the west. One day, Alice, the girl, meets Tom Percival, a prospector, green from the east, and they fall in love. A few weeks later Tom writes Alice that he has struck it rich and for her to accompany her father on the stagecoach that day and she can ride with him to the claim office.

Old Jim Brown, a western ranchman, has a pretty daughter Gladys, who is loved by young Frank Carpenter, then foreman of the ranch. Brown objects to the match because he has an opportunity to marry Gladys off to a rich mine owner, seeing in this alliance the opportunity for social advancement for the girl and himself.

Little more than a minute of this travelogue survives. What does seems to be rural spots, including bridges, a bit of forest and a hot spring.

In this French comedy, a man and a woman (actually a man dressed as a woman) cycle through the streets of Paris, where they perform daredevil feats.

Silent film.

A Federal spy operating within the Confederate lines, meets Hallie Coburn, a fair Southern girl, with whom he falls in love. The Spy enters into the social life. At a garden party he again meets Hallie and they become better acquainted. Gradually their acquaintance ripens into love. Hallie innocently takes the spy into the Confederate camp where he obtains needed information. Suspicion however has become directed towards him and on his attempt to invade the camp alone at night is discovered by one of the pickets and captured. He, however, makes a logical explanation of his presence in the camp and is allowed to depart. As he is leaving the spy unconsciously gives a military salute and the commander looks after him with a worried look on his face and a feeling that he is not what he claims to be. Hallie is summoned to military headquarters and told that her lover is suspected of being a spy.

Rigadin, prohibited by his sweetheart's father from courting her, finally decides to work properly.

Two elegant young ladies made a "slumming" -Adventure: You change clothes with two poor sisters and take their place on the road female musicians.

A huge crowd of people in bathing suits display themselves in front of the camera. They wave the photographer, hug and bathes. Most part of the movie is just the shores and the cliff side of Kullen beach.

Filmed in Paraguay by the company's cameraman, Jorge Goitizolo.

The film earned the public's approval. It surpasses all praise. To this day, no other national film has displayed greater perfection, greater clarity, or greater richness of detail.

Olimpo Film Company. Filmed by Fernando Lund, with the telephoto lens "used to film combat scenes."

Olimpo Cinema Company. Directed by Fernando Lund.

Carlos Tenaud is clearly visible there, along with his reception, General Muñiz, and countless other well-known people. There are about ten aspects of the reception shown in the film, and both the footage from Callao and that from Lima demonstrates the skill of the artist, Mr. Goitizolo, who filmed it. Mr. Carlos Forero gallantly allowed Mr. Goitizolo the use of the upper floors of his building on La Merced Street, and there, in the company of Mr. Gabriel Bernales, he was able to obtain some precious films.

Cinema Theatre Company.

The home and family of Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg of Sweden is visited in this newsreel.

A very brief trip from Piombino to Portoferraio.

The 'Famous Women' Pageant was part of the Women's Coronation Procession that took place in London on 17 June 1911, a week before the Coronation of George V. Organised by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the aim of the pageant was to enlist the support of the new King in getting the 1911 Conciliation Bill - which extended the right of women to vote in the United Kingdom - through Parliament.

Queen Christine of Sweden finds out of an affair between her favourite Monaldeschi and a courtesan in Fontainebleau. From the Guerra Zacarías collection.

Documentary short filmed in 1911 showing domestic and social scenes with Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Rather than depicting a public procession, the film presents a “visit” to their household, offering a rare glimpse of royal life in Sweden at the time.

An account of Robert Bruce's successful avenging of his betrayal by John of Lorne during the 1314 Scottish Wars of Independence.

A multi-generational western.

Comedy vaudeville based on the play-joke by R. Chinarov "Dear Kiss".

Comedy short film directed by Filippo Martelli.

Comedy short film directed by Filippo Martelli.

Italian short film

A commissioner's influence causes a savage to buy European clothes and go to church.

Filmed revolutionary battles of Pancho Villa

A radical fashion trend makes women swoon and men scoff. Can you imagine – trousers for women? Unfortunately for two ladies, the moralising society will soon teach them a lesson about dressing modestly. (Stumfilm.dk)

Earliest japanese horror film.

Earliest japanese horror film.

The new firefighting vehicles in Berlin are out through their paces.

Footage showing the life of geese on a farm and all the events that followed.

Rigadin tires his luck at fishing.

Wiener Kunstfilm, the first major Austrian film production company, was founded in 1910 by the photographer Anton (Gustav) Kolm, his wife Luise Kolm-Veltée, and the cameraman Jacob Fleck to counter France’s domination of the Austro-Hungarian cinema market. This emblematic short film is an August Sander-like portrait of “ordinary folk life in Vienna” – radically different from the one depicted nearly a century later in Ulrich Seidl’s Good News.

A short movie.

A brigand in love feels that he can no longer live without the presence of the beautiful Tagaky, whom he has taken back to her father and her happy fiancé after having kidnapped her at the request of a samurai. Desperate, he commits harakiri with a large sword in memory of the loved one.

The fragment consists of three scenes from The Old Merchant’s Home. The first scene shows the meeting between a distinguished man (played by Philip Beck), a beautiful young woman, and another man. In the next scene, a train draws up at a platform. A boy is standing in the foreground, looking at the camera. In the last scene, a woman is sitting in a living room, sewing. A man enters and assaults her, but is driven out by someone else, who comes to her rescue. Next, two other people enter the living room. (stumfilm.dk)

King Jean le Bon, prisoner of the English, obtains his freedom at the cost of the heaviest sacrifices.

A middle-aged scientist, on a vacation in the country, meets and falls in love with a young girl, the only daughter of a widow, who is an invalid. The widow, knowing that her life is near an end, hopes to see her daughter settled happily before she dies, and heartily approves of the scientist, partly because of her mother's advice, the girl consents to marry, and the ceremony is performed while the invalid is on her deathbed. In her new home, the girl is happy, but finds that her life is a lonely one.