Cinematic Era: 1914 Vintage

Slapstick farce about a man who falls in love with a circus woman.

The three Nordic/Scandinavian Kings meet in Malmø, Sweden. King Gustav V of Sweden, King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway.

Travelogue of Venice

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Mr. and Mrs. Gladwin, a wealthy, childless couple, make the mistake of lavishing upon a dog all the affection and care which should have gone to some forlorn human being. The dog is not happy in his unnatural surroundings, and on the first opportunity, he runs away to the home of Mrs. Smith, the Gladwin's washerwoman, where he is in his element frolicking with Bobbie Smith's dog. When the Gladwins find him there, they see their error. They take Mrs. Smith and her boy home to live in their beautiful house, and the two dogs are given a kennel in the yard.

Clara was no longer a Spring Chicken, and when she passed the Thirty Mark, she began to worry for fear that she could never Rope In a Bread Earner, so she got busy. There was one chap in particular who looked awfully good to her, but the younger girls were hot on his trail, and did their utmost to keep Clara out of his way. Finally Clara got rid of her competitors in the Man Hunt when they all went to a summer resort. She was surrounded by Suitors, and Mr. Gibbs was very much in evidence. The afternoons that followed were a repetition of the first day, while the girls up at the lake were making a fuss over some little Freshman.

Comedy short.

Newlywed buys a camera and attempts to photograph the kid.

A Max Linder comedy short.

In respect to other FAI films, it contains quite an innovative scene, in which the loan shark is on a train, looking out the window, made with a sort of “track after” shot. The camera was fixed on the outside of the train, and when the train started going, the camera filmed the moving landscape. Much of the footage was shot in exteriors. There are numerous views of Rome, including one of Castel Sant’Angelo, while several scenes are set on the beach, probably on the coast of Lazio. The film was hailed by critics. “An exciting film: there are some beautiful scenes. The actors deserve heartfelt congratulations and praise.” (Lazzaro, “La Cine-Fono”, Naples, 4/4/1914)

In this sophisticated romantic comedy, healing waters are the cover for an extramarital affair that “cures” the infertility problems of a childless couple.

Ike, having produced the roll of money from the leg of Louise's father's trousers, rents a speedy automobile, and with Louise starts for the beach. Meanwhile, father, ma and the sheriff, having extricated themselves from the roof of the hotel, start out in mad pursuit.

The life of 6th Century Orthodox saint and Byzantine empress Theodora.

Cousins Axel and Lilli are supposed to get married. Lilli is however much more interested in reading than doing a wife's chores.

Documentary about the city of Huesca. General views of the city, after Mass, the ride, the boy scouts, the procession and the market.

The story is set in the Waikato where two Māori tribes are at war, with the story of the love between the young chief Te Ponga and the beautiful Puhuhu, daughter of the rival chief, similar to the legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai.

The footage shows the parade at the 1914 shooting festival in Wetzlar. Among those present are participants in the '27th Wetzlar Association Shooting Competition'. The parade consists of festively decorated cars and horse-drawn carriages and wagons. The roadside is lined with spectators. Also visible are a brass band, participants in costumes, and decorated floats on which historical scenes are reenacted (knights, castles, soldiers). Women and men in 18th-century costumes and wigs sit on the float of the hairdressers' guild. Children and men ride bicycles. Another association has decorated its float as a Viking ship, and the people on it are dressed in appropriate costumes. Various groups of pedestrians and horsemen follow. At the end of the parade, more and more spectators join in. This is followed by scenes from downtown Wetzlar.

Bunny is rejected by Flora when her dog destroys his hat and gloves and she goes on a trip. She secretly takes the dog, dressed as a baby, on a train. An altercation occurs when another passenger, John, discovers the "baby" is a dog, which leads to the dog being accidentally dropped from the train. John retrieves the dog, winning Flora's gratitude, and proposes. This time, he is accepted.

On the plot of the farce S.F.Saburov The movie is preserved without inscriptions.

Caleb and Blind Bertha are seen at work.

Follows a band of hunters who travel in style from Oakland to the Sacramento Delta via electric railway. The men are out to kill all they can, hiding in underground blinds and luring their prey with live decoys, fake birds, and other ruses. As piles of dead game—and liquor bottles—grow, intertitles plead to end the excess.

A movie about monomania from 1914.

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

Arima Ghost-Cat movie.

With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her imprisoned in the dungeon of the royal palace. There she finds her father, whom she was led to believe had been dead.

We see images of shipbuilding, of the shipping traffic on the IJ and the Amstel, and the transfer and storage of goods.

Fatty hopes to marry for money but thanks to many slapstick complications his plan doesn't go as smoothly as he intended.

Sonny's daddy reads in the morning paper an article concerning the Pole, and explains it to Sonny, who unfortunately has been reprimanded for some trivial mishaps at breakfast and told that if such things happen again Shep will be sent away. In desperation he and Shep start out for the North Pole.

A detective saves a kidnapped heiress by hiding a film camera in the headlamp of the ransom car.

Donald Hall discovers that his wife is engaged in a flirtation with Major Humphreys. The husband forbids Marion to see the man again. Despite this injunction, the woman accompanies Humphries to a road house with a party of friends, while Donald is at a directors' meeting. A fire breaks out and destroys the road house. Marion and Humphreys barely escape. Fearing to return home, the woman heeds Humphreys' pleas and elopes with him. Her handbag is found in the ruins of the building. Donald is led to believe his wife dead.

Mistaken identity is the theme. The husband, who neglects his wife, is watched by two detectives, who make up to appear like him. When mother-in-law arrives the action begins

Ika marries a widow, figuring he's set for life. Unfortunately for him, the first thing she does is put him to work. Ike hatches a scheme with his doctor to fake illness to get out of work, but his new wife has planned for that, too.

Her Last Chance

'Tramp dons Egyptian gloves which cause objects to disappear.' (British Film Catalogue)

Comic film in which a man is suspected of adultery with the maid. To show his wife that appearances are deceiving, he stages a situation where she seems to be cheating on him.

A confirmed bachelor falls in love with the young woman whom he had pawned off on his aunt when she was first put into his custody.

A shepherd, answering the question of some tourists why the ruined castle near which they were standing was named "Satan's Castle," tells them the story on the screen.

Ambassador of the Russian Empire in Belgrade, Nicholas Hartwig (1857-1914), also known as an ardent Pan-Slavist and friend of Serbia, passed away unexpectedly in the Austro-Hungarian embassy, during his visit to the ambassador Baron Giesl von Gieslingen on the 27th June 1914. Over a hundred thousand citizens of Belgrade and Serbia attended his funeral on the 1st July 1914. Foreign diplomats exiting the building of the Russian mission can be seen in the film along with exiting of the Serbian Metropolitan Dimitrije and bishops from Niš and Šabac, as well as carrying of the casket with the deceased body out of the embassy building by the officers and clerks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by the President of the Serbian government and Hartwig's close friend Nikola Pašić.

Early artic documentary film.

In this three-reeler, the young lady with whom he is in love is sent to a convent to get her away from Max. Max goes after her. While we are not forced to watch the mustachioed Linder in drag, there are some nice gags here as Max manages to get his chauffeur blamed for everything, including an abduction of the girl.

A pauper tells workhouse visitors of his wife's death from starvation.

A poor old man is forced to sell his grandchild's terrier, but it returns. A short film.

The Lieutenant and his men save an invention from spies.

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.