Cinematic Era: 1914 Vintage

Trick film about film production.

"At the beginning of 1914, the unknown cameramen recorded the first film about the Serbian capital city Belgrade for the Serbian film producer Svetozar Botorić. The most important places and streets in Belgrade were recorded in the film: outings spot Topčider with the famous church, Residence of Prince Miloš Obrenović and the oldest plane tree in the city that was planted in this yard, then Botanical garden, ice on the Sava and the Danube rivers and the settlement Karaburma, monument of the scientist Josif Pančić, Grand market close to Gospodar Jovanova street, square Slavija, military hospital, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, building of the Seventh regiment, Railway station, Karađorđeva street, Botorić hotel “Paris“ on Terazije (this footage was probably made in the summer of 1913), Novo groblje (New cemetery) with gravestones of the renowned Serbians, Seismological station." Yugoslav Cinematheque

Oath of the first recruits from the newly liberated Serbian regions, the soldiers of the Vardar regiment, started at 10 o'clock in the morning on the 13th April 1914 in the Lower Town of Kalemegdan Fortress.

In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as to appease the tensions between Catholics and Huguenots. But the marriage of convenience proves a double failure because not only are the newlyweds ill-matched sexually but a horrible killing spree (the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre) ensues as well.

The oldest film shot in Wisconsin that still exists in its original, complete form. Produced by an itinerant film company out of Omaha, Nebraska and cast with Wausau, Wisconsin locals, the short, silent one-reeler tells a romantic story set against the backdrop of the city's lumber mills.

A couple of country pumpkins go to the big city and learn a thing or two.

A surgical operation transforms a criminal into an honest man

Short parody of the war with adult men who play war.

A sea creature documentary short by Edoardo Bosio.

Filmed by reserve army officer Fuat Uzkinay shortly after the Ottoman empire's entry into the Great War. A General Enver's establishes a film centre and several more scenes are shot during the war.

Cinema Theatre Company.

Cinema Theatre Company.

Cinema Theatre Company.

Cinema Theatre Company.

Axel is told to buy his mother-in-law a birthday present, but struggles with finding anything good.

Citizens of Gävle are presented to the audience.

Footage of the model aircraft competition in Frankfurt am Main, probably the event organized by the Frankfurt Model Aircraft Association (at that time the presiding association of the German Model Aircraft Association) from May 17 to 21, 1914. The competition took place at the end of a model aircraft exhibition lasting several days at the Rebstock airfield. Various homemade model aircraft can be seen being examined and flown by male participants of different ages.

Pochoir-tinted view of life around the Katsura river, Japan. Part of Pathé's “The Japanese Film” series. From the Guerra Zacarías collection.

Film portraying the life of the German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck.

A dog causes a man to get chased.

Willy gets a rival and mans-up to for a fight.

An army officer is executed by a firing squad. A woman cries on his grave.

Animated promotional film for Bryant & May matches.

Jim Harris, division engineer of the C. and K. and Mary Lane, are sweethearts but quarrel when Mary, a convert of the suffragette movement, asserts her intention of provoking by securing and holding a "man's job" that woman is fully as competent, and therefore entitled to all privileges enjoyed by man.

Documentary about the funeral of Georgi Alekseyev. Preserved in the Russian film archive.

Ukrainian silent film about Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, based on a play by Mykhailo Starytskyi. Lost.

A war propaganda animated silent film made by Harry Furniss

Scenes from the coronation of Ahmad Shah Qajar including preparation of the day and the city atmosphere.

Sophie, a dentist, recognizes a patient as the bandit who previously robbed her during a stagecoach holdup.

A silent Western short.

A 1914 silent Black and White film. This non-fiction film documents the Delhi sites that have a significant relationship to the Indian Rebellion of 1857. 'Made in the year in which the First World War broke out, the film Historic Mutiny Sitesmakes mobile and visible the locations of British heroism of an earlier military campaign.' - Richard Osborne for colonialfilm.org

Why breed skunks in Connecticut—or for that matter, why breed skunks at all? The terrain, climate, and proximity to New York City made the location ideal for the transport of these gentle creatures to furriers that supplied the fashion industry.

Charles Servaes as Polycarpe becomes an inspector of sort; he goes around measure the length of women's skirts in Paris to make sure they don't reveal tooo much leg for the moral Apaches of Montmartre.

Stencil colored film

Flower Parade on June 21, 1914, in Trier.

Ethnographic film about life in colonized Africa.

A Italian short comedy with Robinet.

The famous video of the historical event in which the two most loved revolutionary leaders met each other.

A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape, and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative.

Cinema Theater Company. “[...] Lima society will have the opportunity to get to know Iquitos society”

Cinema Theatre Company.

It contains: aspects of the Government Palace; the attacking troops; the meeting of the Chambers; the funerals of the victims. “A historical document of inestimable value.”

The life of Aboriginal Australians is presented.

Shows a parade Helsinki.