Cinematic Era: 1912 Vintage

A couple receive a letter from their son asking them to come live with him

Documentary on a school in colonized Africa.

A comedy in which a man has to get married within an hour so as to get some money. After being rejected twice, one of his friends dresses up as a woman.

It's not easy for a hotel employee to kill himself when guests keep interrupting him.

A film from the Società Anonima Ambrosio company.

A western short from 1912 starring Joseph De Grasse & Edna Maison.

Wars in the Osman Empire

A selection of six traditional folk dances originally recorded on Kinora Spools (a selection of photographs attached to a wheel that gives the impression of motion when rotated).

The beautiful Anny works in a cigar-shop. Wholesaler Willmann fancy Anny and hire her as his housemaid. Soon the two have an intimate relationship. But Anny finds someone new. At a carnival. Her next step is to get Willman's son to get to his father's safe. Together they steal the family's fortune and have a great time doing away with all of it. Anny sink deeper and deeper in misery.

The Italian conquest of the city of Zuara, in Lybia, during the Italo-Turkish war, is described through its most important moments: the landing on the coast, the advance of the soldiers in the desert, the raising of the flag, the long march towards the oasis that hides the city, the occupation and the return of the victorious troops.

Italian documentary short about the victorious battle for the conquest of Mergheb.

Early color film documenting the inauguration of the San Marco Campanile.

A henpeck taking photographs is mistaken for a spy.

A Danish clip of the boat Selandia.

A public service animation from O'Galop that warns against the dangers of alcohol. Oh, the woes of drinking. Even a small glass of alcohol will turn someone inevitably into an epileptic criminal.

Fascinating views of Toledo: Bridges, elaborately decorated halls and other architectural highlights that appear to date from as early as the 8th century.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.

It includes: a visit to the Kanguroo submarine; the public gathered; the launch of the Ferré; boats with officers and civilians follow the Ferré as it speeds away.

All the details of the lavish ceremony. The first submersible to sail in South American waters. The launch of the Ferré is presented in all its details: the appearance of the dock and the flotilla of vessels that attended.

It contains: views of the El Alto to La Paz railway.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.

International Film Company.

Laban Petterkvist has decided that he is going to enter the Olympic Games. Now he just has to come up with which sport he is going to participate in.

Watching the various stages of the extraction and treatment of salt, we see a peaceful contrast between the workers and the young lady of high society observing the educational spectacle. The finished product ends up on board a sailboat, while young and old stop to lunch on the pier.

The story involves the robbery of a jewl from a wealthy banker by a criminal gang. The crime is blamed on the sweetheart of the banker's daughter, a naval officer.

Filendouce, after stealing a bicycle, is pursued by the police. But Filendouce is elusive.

Lucien Bataille is hired as security for the department store, and proceeds to wreck much of it to keep anyone from from stealing anything.

A series of scenes in and about the town of Sorrento, showing native dress and customs and some remarkable products of the various industries. The film draws to a close with several captivating views of the Bay of Naples.

Spanish short documentary film by Antonio de Padua Tramullas.

Shirage Oni is a tale of man who returns from the grave and possesses the body of another.

Italian horror movie from 1912.

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

Recordings of various wild flowers. A caterpillar crawls on a plant and turns into a pupa. A butterfly emerges from the pupa. It turns out to be a woman and she does a dance. Contains fragments from Gaston Velle's La métamorphose du papillon (1904)

Mrs. Dove has gambling debts. She doesn’t want her husband to know about this, so she pawns her ring to get money. She is invited to an intimate soiree by Marie Carrington, where she runs into the Count and Countess Bulger, to whom she is in debt. But once again, she loses at the card table.

Count von Löwenstein shows Marquis Al Fresco his will, where he bequeaths 1 billion to his daughter Donna Elvira, if she marries the Marquis. The evil Marquis visits Saïd Ali Mohammed, Doctor of Toxicology, where he buys a bottle of poison. When the Count and the Marquis walk through a wood, two robbers kill them. The robbers find the bottle, drink the poison and die.

Purely, Surrey orphanage fundraising event with children performing choreographed military-style drills, believed to be filmed somewhere between 1904 and 1912.

The Peruvian Centaurs, erroneously listed in various publications as the first documentary footage taken in the country, is a film approximately 10 minutes long. It showed equestrian exercises practiced by the third cavalry squadron in the so-called Magdalena Valley in Lima. Models for its creation were the popular equestrian films exhibited in Lima under the title "The Centaurs," followed by the name of their nationality. There were, therefore, Russian, Belgian, French, Italian, and, of course, Peruvian centaurs.

A girl's warning causes a bandit chief to exchange glasses with a hired assassin.

The title Dalla villa reale di Rjeka (Montenegro) is misleading, as it’s attached to a composite film made up of footage shot in 1910 during King Nikola’s coronation in Cettigne and then jumps ahead two years to the winter capital of Rijeka Crnojevića (now a run-down backwater) during the First Balkan War.

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A “romanticized” adaptation of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi’s colonial settlement in the Philippines, meant to sway positive depictions of Spaniards and Mestizos.

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

An old man goes out for a walk in a wheelchair, accompanied by an unreliable attendant.

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

Cunégonde's husband is trying to leave his wife, but Cunégonde does not want to let him go. She catches him with a lasso and hides herself in the chest he has packed with his belongings. Eventually she can not prevent him from getting out.

When the husband of Cunégonde dresses up and goes out by himself, he is chased by his jealous wife. However, when he goes into a restaurant, she cannot follow him inside because of her clothes.

A trip to the mountains. Women and men alike marvel at the beautiful and wild nature: flowers and waterfalls. Looking through binoculars, the camera lens puts itself in the spotlight.

Supplies from across the globe are gathered at the Henry Howell & Co. factory on Old Street in London; pimento from the West Indies, ash from England. Inside the factory, workers shape hazel on a bandsaw and bend rattan to form crook handles, whilst rough stick are heated in a kiln ready for straightening. A wider shot shows employees in one of the company's cramped but busy workshops. A medium shot shows a worker cutting silver ready for mounting. Once shaped and straightened, each stick is carefully tested and examined, before being adorned with hand-chased silver mounts or engraved silver handles. Each stick-end is then sanded ready to be fitted with a ferrule cap to protect these ends from wear and tear. The despatch room is as busy as the workshop, as stock is pulled from storage and orders are prepared for delivery. A completed order, placed in a large box bound for Philadelphia, is loaded onto the street. [...] -East Anglian Film Archive

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