Cinematic Era: 1912 Vintage

An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.

Pretty Nan Morgan is admired by all the boys in Lariat and likes them, every one, but her heart belongs to Broncho Billy, who proudly announces to the boys one day that he wants to introduce them "to the future Mrs. Broncho." Matters glide along smoothly until about the time Broncho is thinking of putting the ring on Nan's finger.

Short film.

Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility.

Silent one-reel melodrama

A Japanese Idyll is a 1912 silent short drama film directed by and starring Lois Weber. The film was produced by the Rex Motion Picture Company for release by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.

A neglected mother is tempted to stray, but she is saved by her baby's voice, whom she hears talking on the telephone.

The period is 1876; trains of settlers are moving westward. It is the time of pioneers and prairie schooners. Dan is leading one wagon train and his party fall in with another led by a stalwart Indian, Mahomena. They proceed together. Amongst the latter party is a young girl, Eunice, and she and Dan are immediately attracted to each other

Con Ology and Hi Flyer, two henpecked husbands, hit upon a plan whereby they can escape from their domineering spouses for a day in order to enjoy the company of two chorus girl affinities.

An outlawed Earl forms a robber band and saves a girl from a knight.

De Chomon short from 1912

Not finished.

Joe Fuller, the outlaw and bandit, draws rein at a humble cottage and begs refreshment. The traditional hospitality of the west is at once shown him by Jane White, who is alone in the house at the time, with her baby daughter. The bandit is given food and drink, while he is eating which, the baby takes a child-like fancy to him.

A lavish melodrama set in the 17th century where a countess's daughter incurs the wrath of her parents when she spurns a suitor and falls in love with a stable boy. The film was long considered completely lost until the original negative was found in France in 2010, and it is the first of Malmö producer Frans Lundberg's rich feature film production to be rediscovered in nearly complete condition. (Filmarchiv.SE)

Italian peeping toms.

Documentary released by Gaumont in 1912.

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

Dave Trent is employed on the Big C ranch and lives with his sister, Mary, a charming girl. Jim Andrews, foreman of the ranch, loves Mary, and one morning calls to put the engagement ring on her finger.

Willie loved his mother. Yes, and he was selfish about it, too. He didn't want a new father and when the old Baron Anatole called lo pay attention to Mrs. Darfeuil, Willie made it most interesting for him. The cute little fellow was original in his methods and the thorough manner in which he demonstrated his dislike for the Baron is certainly amusing. The youngster who plays Willie, is a very clever little performer and the comedy situations are handled in such a laughable manner that the subject is indeed an enjoyable one.

Billy Quirk starts out in the morning for his office. Billy has important papers in his valise (grip) and important matters on his mind. The trouble starts when Billy takes a streetcar and, in his hurry, he grabs not his but a similar valise which happens to belong to a woman with a bad temper. When Billy discovers that his valise, instead of containing valuable papers, contains lingerie and false hair, he panics. Billy tries to get his back before his wife misinterprets the situation, but she finds it just as the rightful owner enters the scene and the two clash, Billy runs for dear life complicating things still more.

Why will people try to be something they are not? Everybody does it. Whiffles does it. He wants to give his sweetheart the impression that he is a fine singer and as he has no voice he employs a capable tenor to supply the music from behind the screen while he makes the necessary facial expressions. In the midst of a song the voice ceases, but Whiffles goes on without it much to everybody's amusement.

Early travelogue.

1912 silent film directed by Harry C. Mathews

King Nicolas of Montenegro is shown watching the departure of the troops

Professor Stout and his friend Thynne are anxious to discover some way of ‘raising the wind’. Their sole asset is an old clarionet and some poems. They retire to a public recreation ground.

A trip to Mallorca.

Two Merry Jokers get "caught with the goods." Leah and Lizette receive notes from their respective admirers, who wish to arrange a holiday party. Leah suggests that the three come to her house and have a jolly time. The two sweethearts, Tony and Fritz, are married men, Tony being Fritz's father-in-law. Each leaves home in the morning, claiming to have an important engagement for the day. Fritz arrives first, with parcels of good things to eat, and Lizette and her friend Tony arrive soon after. The scene which follows may be better imagined than described. However the two men pledge secrecy, and the party proves a huge success. An unexpected sequel follows the next day, for the wives happen to make purchases at the millinery shop in which the girls are employed. On delivering the hats, Leah and Lizette meet their sweethearts and learn that they are married men. Accusations, excuses and a general scrimmage follow. In which the husbands certainly "get theirs." —Moving Picture World

The Lieutenant saves a spy's daughter from a fire and she saves him from the sewer.

Estate owner Löwenhjelm with daughter Anna arrives in the city, where they check into Hotel Kramer. There, Anna sees Lieutenant Falk again with joy. Their childhood friendship has grown into love over time. A traveling circus has come to town. Its main attraction is Miss Irma, the director's young daughter. Her chosen one is the athlete Edwardo.

Promotion of Rottnest as a tourist destination. A few years earlier Rottnest had been a prison. Western Australia’s first promotional film.

Tontolini makes a mistake

A lieutenant fights train wreckers in a tunnel, jumps from a parapet onto another train, and rows to a ship.

Melodrama with the trappings of a military firm

Gavroche lives by his wit, so when he reads an ad, which tells that a rich American girl will marry the man who can cause her to experience the greatest thrill or sensation, he puts his mental ingenuity working, and he conceives a plan to win. He calls at her address and sees two suitors try and fail. He then goes to a menagerie, where he buys two lions. With these he returns and enters the office where the contract is to be signed if he should prove the victor. All flee before Gavroche and his lions, all but the heiress, who flies into his arms begging protection. Thus it is that he caused her the greatest emotion or thrill and she gladly names him victor and husband-to-be.

Early Lois Weber film.

Tom is kidnapped by Mexican Guerrillas.

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

An early Gaumont short by an unknown director.

Italian short drama directed by Luigi Maggi.

Another fast-paced crime/detective short featuring the tough Nick Winter .

A cinema becomes the site of sexual intrigue when a man looking for romance in the dark follows a woman into the movies and finds himself molesting her husband instead.

A girl weds a sweep and discovers he is a Negro.

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

The little Mexican girl was in love with the American engineer, but the Mexican who loved her was vindictive and vain and so attempted to force his dagger into her throat. Her cries were heard by an American tourist, who at once came to her assistance and forced the Mexican from the shack. He disappeared quickly and the girl never saw her benefactor. Sometime later she and her American husband returned to the east. He had succeeded, comparatively, but he soon took to gambling in stocks; One day he informed his wife that his speculations were wiped out, and even his house may have to be sold to meet his creditor's demand. The husband then noticed a newspaper item. "James Burden, the Multi-Millionaire, interested in Charity." Then the idea came; it was daring, it was wrong, and he knew it: but he was desperate. He would call on the millionaire, ask for a contribution, and then copy his signature and forge a check.