Billy takes his friend Tom out for a drive in his new car. Tom asks Billy to wait while he makes a purchase. Along comes the beautiful Marian who assumes he is a public chauffeur and hires him. Billy goes along with the misunderstanding and tells Marian that she may always have his car at cut rates if she phones him at the garage. This leads to comic adventures and eventual love for the couple.
Cinematic Era: 1912 Vintage
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Tim Clancy, an ex-convict, on the day of his release, returns home and is welcomed by his mother and sweetheart. He decides to turn over a new leaf. He applies and secures work at the Ganes shoe factory. Here he is recognized by a detective and when his record is made known to the management he is discharged. The inevitable follows.
Bread Upon the Waters
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A poor young girl finds a purse and returns it to its owner, who decides to reward her honesty.
Ida's Christmas
4.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.
The Bond of Music
6.5 1912 • Cinematic -
The story of a young man and woman in an apparent arranged marriage that is complicated by a supposed inheritance. D'Orsey, the "bogus duke," tries to secure the fortune for himself.
The Lost Inheritance
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
The Totville Eye
6.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Consists of two parts: Part One: The Life of John Bunyon (2 reels); Part Two: The Pilgrim's Progress (3 reels).
Pilgrim's Progress
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
The Picture Idol
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
A gang terrorizes and controls the waterfront.
The Water Rats
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.
Iola's Promise
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Early adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story
The Speckled Band
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The prologue shows the life of a trapper, living in the solitude of the forest. He digs a bear trap, which is covered with boughs and grass. An Indian girl, armed with a bow and arrow, creeps close to a wild turkey, which she brings down. As she runs forward to gather up her prey she falls into the trap. Evans, the trapper, finds her there and on lifting her from the pit, finds that she has sprained her ankle, and takes her to his cabin, and makes her as comfortable as possible. As the shades of evening fall and the pain subsides, the girl drops into a slumber, and loath to awaken her, Evans leaves her in possession of his cabin and, wrapped in a blanket, sleeps outside. In the morning, the girl having recovered sufficiently, he lifts her to his horse, and mounting behind her, proceeds to the Indian camp. On the way he is attacked by a trio of Indians, who fire at him from behind a tree, and the trapper brings down one of his assailants.
The Outcast
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude has an idea. They will hire Susan B. Gabonthy to lecture for them, clear about one hundred dollars apiece, and have enough to tide them over into the next term.
Saving an Audience
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends his son away until, after a dozen years, he discovers she was true; whereupon he summons his son and, after a bit, they reconcile at her grave.
Chamber of Forgetfulness
6.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A Native tribe is slowly wiped out after White ranchers in the area exploit the women which leads to conflict.
The Vanishing Race
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his noted generosity no doubt appealed to her and it seems that she married him more out of gratitude than actual love. Be that as it may, the fact remains that when Millais met her, he and she fell desperately in love with each other.
The Love of John Ruskin
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage and he quarrels with his son. Marjorie has a half-brother, Dave, who is of an inventive turn of mind.
The Cylinder's Secret
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
It is Max's wedding night, married to the beautiful Stacia Napierkowska. He and his bride are sleeping..... and a flea keeps disturbing him.
An Agitated Night
5.6 1912 • Cinematic -
A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.
A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
5.8 1912 • Cinematic -
When rancher Arthur Mackley welcomes his daughter (Florence Perkes) to his ranch for a visit, all of the cowboys compete for her affections.
Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
4.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A silent Western and a love story. When the secret agent Marshall tries to nab a gang of counterfeiters, he falls in love with the daughter of the gang’s leader.
The Deputy's Peril
6.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Jim Matthews, express agent in Red Rock, Arizona, and his daughter Alice, are watching anxiously over the bedside of Mrs. Matthews, who is very ill. An express box of money is now left by the stage and Matthews is ordered to guard it overnight. The "Arizona Kid," a notorious bandit, who has followed the stage and watched while they left the box, now gallops back to the rendezvous of his pals, tells them of the easy chance to rob the office and they start at once. Meanwhile Alice has sent her father for a doctor and is all alone with her sick mother.
Broncho Billy and the Bandits
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
During the Civil War, Elinor, a pretty Northern girl, comes south to visit her aunt-- Little does anyone suspect she works as a spy. Lieutenant Yancey, who's nearly engaged to the fetching and resourceful Rose, is gallant enough to show the Yankee guest around, including a walk down a hidden creek where a gunboat is built and awaits powder. Elinor sends this intelligence North, and the Bluecoats attack.
The Confederate Ironclad
6.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.
Fra Diavolo
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Fred Mace plays a businessman with two secretaries. He gets playful with the second secretary, Mabel Normand. His wife, Alice Davenport walks in on him. He does some nice embarrassed husband pantomime. Davenport fires the two secretaries and tell Fred that he will only have male secretaries from now on. The next day, Mabel arrives in drag as a boy to apply for the job. The wife takes him into the next office and starts to make a pass at him.
Mabel's Stratagem
5.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Victims of a tragic air crash are honoured in a sombre military funeral procession through the streets of Hitchin.
Hitchin. Honouring the Brave
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash.
The Meeting of the Ways
4.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The emigrants are seen fighting the hordes of redskins. The hero rides to the settlement for help and engages in a thrilling duel with pursuing Indians. The settlers swoop down on the unprotected Indian village and burn it up. The savages seeing the flames, hurry back and fall into an ambush. They are attacked from the rear by the emigrants and from the front by the settlers. In a wild scene of carnage the surprised Indians are mowed down by the hail of bullets, horses and riders falling in tangled masses.
War on the Plains
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The Living Dead
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
After second hand clothier Cohen receives $1000 from a rival firm (unaware that the amount was borrowed to force his bankruptcy), he must dodge a disguise-wearing bill collector. Filmed in the For Lee, New Jersey area, probably in July or early August, 1912.
Cohen Collects a Debt
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Gilton live next door to a large family, the Biltons, that struggles to make ends meet. Despite their desire to be friendly, Mr. Gilton is frequently irritated by his neighbors, insisting that they stay out of his yard, and blaming them for anything that goes wrong. During the holiday season, the differences between the two families become even clearer. Mrs. Gilton wants to do something to help the Biltons, but Mr. Gilton will take a lot of convincing.
A Christmas Accident
6.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen sleeping on the steps of the stage door. He picks her up and takes her to his comfortably furnished home. The old man even grows childish, he is so pleased with the little tot's presence and he gives her the love with which his heart abounds. The next day he learns from the morning papers that Helen's mother and father were lost in a fire. He spends many happy hours with her, playing with her toys. He takes her to rehearsals with him, where she is the pet of the musicians. One year later Helen shows an aptness for the stage. This delights the old musician and the child grows nearer and dearer to his heart. A sad blow, however, comes to him when the Children's Society take the little girl away from him and once more he finds himself a lonely old man.
The First Violin
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Fred acts as a matchmaker for his cousin Flo and his friend George.
Her Cousin Fred
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
The Mender of Nets
5.8 1912 • Cinematic -
Evert has found the girl of his dreams in Roze Kate, much to the jealousy of his brothers Jacob and Simon. Then something completely unexpected happens when their father dies. If their mother remarries, she can ensure that her sons will lose their father's inheritance, prompting Jacob and Simon to hatch a plan to murder their mother. When it happens, all the evidence points to Evert, who was not involved in the plot. It seems that Roze Kate is playing a cunning game to deprive the boys of their inheritance.
Roze Kate
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The young Mormon's father is a beloved and faithful man. This young man becomes a look-out for his community, locating and assisting in the attack of wagon trains to secure new wives for polygamists. One day, he observes a lone wagon train crossing the prairie. He discovers it is a young woman that he falls in love with at first sight. This love leads him to give up his faith and warn the emigrants. He joins in the fight against his own people and they defend themselves with the flag of truth. After his father learns of his son's apostasy, he sadly returns home. The emigrants are killed, the young Mormon takes the place of the emigrant, and together with the girl, they turn to a new life.
The Mormon
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
As a member of Swedish Parliament, Johannes will visit Stockholm for the first time and meets with acquaintances. However, he does not realize what his "friends" have planned for him during his stay.
Uncle Johannes Comes to Stockholm
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Set in Biblical times, this tells the story of how Jesus affected the lives of two people: Joseph, a young Jewish man, and Maximums, a centurion in the Roman army.
The Illumination
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
Aunty's Romance
5.5 1912 • Cinematic -
A Mack Sennett comedy from the time he worked for Biograph starring Mabel Normand & Fred Mace.
The Fickle Spaniard
3.5 1912 • Cinematic -
Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
Petticoat Camp
6.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.
The Money Kings
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A western prospector, who has been unusually lucky, prepares to return east to his wife. The suspicious actions of a gypsy horse-trader, whom he has seen loitering near his cabin, prompts him to take his gold to the bank, but on the way he is thrown from his horse and suffers fatal injuries. A young man and woman come on the scene and are given the gold, after they promise the dying man to send a portion of it to his wife. Later, the gypsy, learning who got the gold, attacks the mother of the young people and escapes with the treasure.
The Prospector's Legacy
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A pioneer caravan is attacked by Indians, who greatly outnumber the pale faces. The whole party are massacred, with the exception of a year-and-one-half old baby, who being hidden by its mother, escapes detection. Whitey is a big, bashful cowpuncher, who secretly worships at the shrine of the only eligible woman in camp, a buxom widow.
The Cowboy Guardians
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A young couple elope and short of cash move hotels. Knowing they are unreachable someone tries to extort money from her banker father claim they have been kidnapped.
The Lucky Holdup
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A group of tourists spend too long checking out the Indian Arts and Crafts at the station and miss their train. While waiting, Normand in a picture hat and black outfit, wanders off and takes an interest in Chief Evans, precipitating the usual chase, here by ax wielding Indian wives.
The Tourists
3.7 1912 • Cinematic -
To Søstre
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The lieutenant poses as a Moor to escape a besieged embassy and shells their hideout.
Lieutenant Rose and the Moorish Raiders
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Jim Richeson was a haunted man, but he smiled carelessly as he handled the sign offering a reward for his capture, dead or alive. He smiled again as he wheeled his horse and galloped off down the road, waving a satirical adieu to the posse. A pretty mountain girl with pail in hand, stood at the pump when Jim rode up. He took the pail from her, drank deeply, and then, as an afterthought, seized her and kissed her heartily. Then he leisurely mounted his horse and galloped off. Furious at the insult, the girl rushed for a gun, only to meet her lover, just as he rounded the bunkhouse. That person at once flew into a passion and gave hot chase to the vanishing bandit, vowing to have his life. Meanwhile, the girl, at the head of a posse, followed less swiftly. A royal battle took place in the mountains. Dick and Jim, sheltered behind the great rocks, tried every expedient known to the West in an effort to kill each other.
A Life for a Kiss
6.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Her husband was just what she was not, cold and brutal and even a little criminal. He earned his living in God knows what way, but once he boldly boasted that he and a confederate was to rob a house. She pleaded with him to forsake the dishonest plan, but he laughed and hurled her aside. She sobbed and begged, but he merely enjoyed her tears, and left the house. Outside he met his accomplice. The little wife followed him, caught up with him on the corner, and again pleaded with him to return home. In his rage he turned and struck her on the head. The woman fell and did not rise again. The two ran off. A little later she was found lying there by a farmer and his wife, who revived her. She did not know who or what she was. Her memory was a complete blank.
Through Memory Blank
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Dan Clayton, a young easterner, is engaged to pretty Vedah Powers. Desirous of making his fortune Clayton goes west and becomes a prospector. After six months he has almost forgotten Vedah, and his letters are far and few between. Patiently Vedah waits each day for the postman, and her heart is almost breaking when no word comes from Dan. Meanwhile, Dan gets into bad company, takes to drinking, meets a Mexican girl, and marries her. His money gives out and he writes Vedah that he has met with an accident while prospecting and asks her to send him some money. Unable to stand the torturing suspense longer, Vedah boards the next train, and starts west to find Dan.
On the Cactus Trail
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Diligent saleslady Nora Grady feels sympathy for a gawky country boy who has been assigned to the wrapping department and takes him under her wing. The owner of the store believed in developing talent and offered a cash reward and promotion for the employee who suggested the best way to display the spring fashions. Nora trying to help, lends the youth an idea and he wins. Promoted to floorwalker his ego swiftly gets in the way and it’s not long before it precipitates in his fall.
The Saleslady
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.
The Girl and Her Trust
6.3 1912 • Cinematic -
Dr. Jane Bixby, a new doctor in a rural town, solves the mystery of the moonshiner's still.
The Advent of Jane
7.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Flo's suitor wins her mother's favor when he returns a lost pocketbook.
The Mill Buyers
10.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet a very special newborn baby. Meanwhile, King Herod, driven by a hideous prophecy, orders him to be found and murdered.
Star of Bethlehem
5.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Beatrice Wilson, visiting her brother, a British officer in India, is sought in marriage by a native prince. She refuses him and he plots revenge. He incites the Sepoys to mutiny and they set fire to Jack Wilson's home and endeavor to abduct Beatrice. She is defended by her brother, who in the midst of the excitement is taken captive.
The Indian Mutiny
9.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young Suzie Darvel, who has opted for a career as an opera singer. Having a great knowledge of music himself, the navy officer, who finds the girl’s voice quite interesting, writes her a melody, making it a gift to her. That same day, he receives orders to set sail, putting an end to the beautiful love story which had just begun. Three years later, junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil returns to Paris. While attending a performance of Carmen, he recognizes the interpreter of the Bizet character as his lovely neighbor from the past. Jacques Mareuil falls in love with the great singer and wants to marry her. His father is however categorically opposed to the decision, and with the aid of one his colleagues at the Naval Department, he obtains an immediate departure to Indochina for Jacques.
La Rançon du Bonheur
8.0 1912 • Cinematic -
Milord l'Arsouille
0.0 1912 • Cinematic -
The basis of the story is an old edict, issued as the result of one of the tribal differences, that death shall be meted out to the Hopi woman who marries an Apache.
The Tribal Law
0.0 1912 • Cinematic