Cinematic Era: 1914 Vintage

Jim Cameron becomes desperate at his failure to get work, and resolves to hold up the stage in order to provide necessities for his wife and sick child, Mildred.

Grass County Goes Dry

Short film about the attractions of the Italian coastal town of Rapallo.

Polycarpe gets himself a suit with a big neck.

A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in love with Sylvia, known as "Cherry," the beautiful daughter of Mr. Gray, a wealthy resident of their town. He conspires with some of the bolder spirits of the company to hold up the stage in which Mr. Gray and his daughter are homeward bound to the King George Inn, he will then dash up, drive the "robbers" away single handed and claim the fair lady.

An entomologist runs a spy ring of bus drivers from a tower in Epping Forest.

Tom, the son of John and Mary Landers, an old-fashioned country couple is in love with a pretty country girl, who is also being courted by Walter Terry. Tom surprises the latter making violent love to her and, crazed with jealousy, strikes Walter and in the fight that ensues Tom accidentally pushes Walter over the edge of a cliff. Fearing that he had killed his rival, Tom leaves the farm for the city.

Princess Savitri marries Satyavan, an exiled prince. However, their blissful married life is threatened when she learns of his prophesied death.

Boireau, apprentice mason, and a coalman fight it out for the affections of the cook.

Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcomes him. Next our friend mistakes a bear's ears for a butterfly, and tries to net them, with the result that soon he is up a tree only a breath or two in advance of the bear. Things look very dark for him, especially as the bear energetically tries to shake the colonel from his perch like a ripe apple, but again his resourcefulness finds a victory. As a final grand windup he makes the biggest bag of game, all at one shot that anyone ever secured under similar circumstances.

A documentary of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand shortly before his death.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo. “It will be shown exactly as it comes out of the development unit.”

It contains: the arrival of Commander Benavides after the Caquetá campaign; the disembarkation of the survivors and the flags captured from the Colombian enemy.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.

Perspectives of life in the Swedish military is shown.

Brothers Paul and Georg Williams' latest invention is of great military importance, and a foreign nation enlist it's most deadly spy, Mylady, to get information about it.

Heinz Werner has been gifted with a wonderful tenor voice, but also cursed with a habit of partying to hard. When he is discovered and hired to sing at the opera house, he also gets more chances to party...

Ray Boggs sees a most enticing bargain advertisement in the paper and asks her husband for some money. He is not feeling very amiable and gives his wife only a two-dollar bill. When Ray carries her protest to the front steps he even takes the two-spot back. Of course she telephones to her mother, and mother comes right over and quickly concocts a scheme to play on Ben's jealousy. They write an anonymous letter, telling him his wife keeps another man's glove in her bureau. Ben gets the letter at his office just as he is signing an important contract, but he throws the contract in the other man's face and rushes home. After a vivid rough house he finds the glove, a boxing glove, and mother calmly admits that she wrote the letter to trap him. She suggests that it will make a fine story for the boys at the club. Of course Ben gives Ray half his roll to buy her off. and he has an increased respect for his mother-in-law's diplomacy.

Seated comfortably in the green pastures near his home, Batty Bill is suddenly presented with a baby, but with his usual dull wits he is slow to realize the catastrophe that has befallen him. When he does so, the giver of this great gift has disappeared. Poor Batty Bill endeavors to leave the baby everywhere, but without success. Ultimately he is, as he thinks, more successful, and is able to give the baby over to the police. A little later he is about to be married, when the police come and insist upon him taking his child. The indignation of his prospective wife is very amusing, and the whole thing causes a great joke from end to end.

Hugo Reid loves and is engaged to the fair Irene. Warned by his father that insanity runs in their family he chooses to break with her without sharing the reason why. Driven by his loneliness and despair, Hugo goes back to his former flame, Hazel Hamilton, a lady of loose character. Irene sees them together and hurt flees with Hugo in pursuit. At first anxious to win her back, Hugo eventually tells all to Irene’s mother, leaving the house for good. Shortly thereafter he falls into madness.

American horror comedy movie from 1914.

In Batiste, an Italian woman, Haldeman finds the very type he desires to use in his next picture.

Comic short film in which a colonel is troubled by a burglar who comes dressed as a ghost. A colonel shows his guests his burglar trap. When the burglar sneaks into the house at night and secretly hides in a suit of armour, it is not he but the colonel's housekeeper, also in a suit of armour, who is caught in the trap. Great consternation!

Travelogue of Como and the Lake Como in northern Italy.

Short film about Ghost-cat.

Painter Aldo Modinari's short film from 1914.

Pétronille tries and fails to commit suicide, multiple ways, after her boyfriend Casimir dumps her. A morbid but amusing comedy.

A short of La Fiesta de Obando.

Liberal Lord Chancellor Viscount Haldane opens new buildings for the scholars of Southampton.

Mary Adams, about to visit relatives in a distant part of the country, is entrusted to the care of Manuel Bond. The girl's beauty inflames Bond, a gambler and a scoundrel. That night, when the stagecoach halts, Mary is horrified to discover that Bond has registered for both as man and wife. The gambler turns a deaf ear to the girl's frantic pleas. After locking her in the room, the scoundrel proceeds to the barroom. Mary escapes by means of the window. The girl comes upon a party of settlers. Mary joins the party. Later, the girl meets Kit, a young backwoodsman. It is a case of love at first sight and the two are married the same day.

An English nobleman travels West for some deer hunting. The ranch hands make fun of him, but Louise takes a liking to him and decides that she'll help him bag his deer.

Ike is made the ranch's cook. When a traveling theatrical troupe get stranded nearby, Ike asks them back to the ranch, mainly so he can get next to their pretty leading lady, but he finds that he has to compete for the girl's affections with her pet monkey.

Aunt Mahaley knew Uncle Brewster was sporty, and when he went to the city to pay off his mortgage she warned him about being too free with his coin. He visited Roger Talbot, holder of the mortgage, who handed him two cigars. Uncle Brewster was dying for a smoke, but he remembered what Aunt Mahaley told him about cutting down expenses, and traded the cigars for a couple of boiled eggs saving the price of lunch. At a fruit exhibit he filled his carpet bag, saving supper money. Before leaving the hotel he packed away everything in sight, so when he returned to Aunt Mahaley he was minus railroad fare but plus many towels and hotel souvenirs.

Miss Milly Vincent is not on speaking terms with her neighbor, Theophile Dour, and when her Angora kitten is discovered eating Mr. Dour's breakfast, he becomes furious. A note is hastily penned and delivered to Miss Vincent, requesting, "that she keep her cat off Mr. Dour's premises."

Released as a split reel along with the comedy Marian, the Holy Terror (1914).

Based on the 1906 play by Walter Howard.

A memorial to Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square inspires new heroes as war rages again in Europe.

The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

Newsreel located during the Dawson City film find.

Because of his effeminacy, Percival and Mildred are humiliated wherever they go. After some very distressing incidents in a restaurant, on the boardwalk and on the beach, she becomes thoroughly disgusted, and breaks off the engagement, saying she wants to marry a real man. Percival is almost heartbroken and confides his troubles to a friend, who suggests he make a hero of himself by fighting "Young Hickey," a pugilist.

One of the earliest examples of underwater cinematography, this film explores the sea around The Bahamas in an expedition led by the Williamson Brothers, who shot undewater footage for the Thanshouser company. Among the scenes shown are a shark attack and a sawfish being caught.