Cinematic Era: 1911 Vintage

A 5-minute nature film from 1915 currently in the collection of the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam

An insight into the outdoor activities at the Viennese Gänsehäufl outdoor pool.

Early feature film produced by Film Dora in Naples

Early feature film by Film Dora

Oasis in the desert: we see palm trees, camels, and a panoramic view of the village. Men exit a mosque. Women and children assemble and the women prepare a meal--smiling and laughing when they notice the camera. A group of men and children emerge with a camel from an underground gallery. A man harvests fruits from a tree. A woman vigorously crushes the fruit with a stone. A child stomps the fruit with his feet inside a container. The people often look directly at the camera while they work. We see the process of their labor production, followed by views of the old fortress, the citadel, and the village. A woman fetches water from a well in a bucket. A donkey raises a ruckus and causes a scene. A small child smiles and nods while holding the side of his head after a fight, indicating that he did well.

Poachers chase down a Polar Bear and her 2 cubs. The mother is killed and the 2 cubs captured.

Italian film

From the kabuki play Sumidagawa No Omokage ("Memories Of The Sumida River"), a ghost story of greed and revenge.

Based on a traditional temple story.

Kisburo, a famous sumo wrestler, was said the have been confronted by malevolent goblin while staying in a haunted house.

Japanese horror movie from 1911.

French horror short from 1911.

A woman wears a demonic mask to frighten her daughter-in-law and stop her attending Buddhist sermons; one day she is unable to remove the mask, which has grafted itself to her face.

A man checks into room 32 at a hotel. He takes a writing desk from against the wall, and leaves. A woman comes to the hotel and takes room 31, right next to him.

Recordings of a mountain valley in the Black Forest region of Germany, including waterfalls, farms, plows, herding goats, grazing herd; Sankt Blasien.

Earliest japanese horror film.

Maurice Schwartz is the doorman at a restaurant. An elegant customer has him deliver a letter to a young lady, asking her to join him, and promises Schwartz a large tip. Schwartz not only delivers the note. He insists on delivering the lady through a serious of slapstick mishaps.

Lucien Cazalis is very excited to be working for a bank. His first assignment is to go to a town and collect a debt. When he arrives, his eccentric choice of hats makes the locals think he is a dignitary they have been expecting.

Adaptation of George Eliot's novel

Short documentary from 1911

In this version, opposite to Gelabert's film of 1908, the story tells about a woman who dies of a broken heart.

A 1911 silent film

Eva is dispossessed but everything magically returns to her.

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Phony spiritualists attempt, through repeated spurious séances, to convince a mother they can help her contact her supposedly deceased soldier son.

This early Gaumont sound film features the mythical Gambrinus singing in a rambunctious Medival pub.

An 1911 silent western.

A wild boat ride through the Hozu River’s white-water rapids, set against a beautifully coloured natural background.

Maurice Schwartz and Sarah Duhamel meet at a party, and he falls instantly in love with her. She doesn't even notice him. He follows her and her escort home, and when she passes a note through her window to what she thinks is the other guy, Schwartz gets the note, and pursues the object of his affection.

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

Little Moritz gets a rifle that shoots little darts from hs father and immediately uses to it break windows and cause messes.

Despite the severity of his weekly adventures recently, little Bill is here to cheer us once more with his frolicsome escapades. We see him seated tete-a-tete with a very pretty girl, indulging in the luxury of a particularly magnificent lobster for dinner. It is, of course, quite inconceivable that Bill should do anything without its having some astonishing consequence, and the effect of the succulent crustacean is in nowise disappointing. Immediately he finishes his repast, Bill is seized with most alarming spasms, and then, apparently taking on the habits of the shellfish he devoured, commences to walk backwards out of the room. Tripping up at the top of the stairs, he falls down headforemost and then leaps backward into the street, where he seeks refuge in a waiting carriage.

A documentary on frogs.

Miss Harry's, remarkably flexible and double-jointed, offers us a sensational acrobatic number. (Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé)

Eating peanuts causes a workman to act like a monkey.

Reportage of the flight demonstrations Rozenoord airfield near Amsterdam During ‘flight week’, from April 29 to May 8, 1911, flight demonstrations of low-wing and biplanes were held at the Rozenoord airfield near Amsterdam. Airmen and aircraft designers Frits Koolhoven, George Legagneux, and Marcel Hanriot demonstrated their skills on various types of aeroplanes (the Hanriot, the Blériot, and Koolhoven’s ‘Heidevogel’). After landing, they were congratulated by the audience.

1911 film version of the popular opera.

Documentary short with unknown director.

Report on the preparedness of the French army shortly before the First World War.