Cinematic Era: 1915 Vintage

One of two movies released 1915 under the same name.

Roll up, the fair's in town - even with a war on.

Various images of the alpine landscape.

The African Zouaves in the Flanders.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Whiffles enters a beauty contest.

Sherlock Holmes comedy

A detective is drugged with flowers and tied to a sawmill while saving an ex-gambler from a jewel theft charge.

An adaptation of Dr. Jose Rizal’s novel.

Grit is a Western short

The War Zoo is the original title of this animated cartoon by the renowned Australian caricaturist Harry Julius. The miserable fez-wearing turkey represents the battered Turkish forces. The ferocious German eagle is approached by the dove of peace and the British lion still the king of all. Cartoons like this one, screened about 1915, were a direct and light-hearted form of war news and propaganda for the public at home.

Banker Shultz has not had a vacation for over thirty years. His doctor advises a rest or a breakdown will soon result. But it is impossible for Shultz to leave the affairs of the bank a moment. At last he hits on a great scheme. That of getting his friend, Detective Duck, to impersonate him.

Sammy can't get any attention from his girlfriend Dot because all she can think of is Charlie Chaplin. She sends Chaplin an enticing letter and Sammy a rejection, but the two get mixed up, so Sammy dresses up like Chaplin.

A cowboy meets the girl of his dream and his luck turns around.

Footage shot from the steam tram, along the Amsterdam - Monnickendam - Volendam line.

The advantage of having the endorsement of a prominent and wealthy citizen was thoroughly appreciated by the "Flivver" manufacturers, but try as they could, they were unable to accomplish it. John T. Rocks, the richest man in the world, had been approached by clever representatives of the motor car company, but he declared that he never had ridden in an automobile and never would. The Flivver Company had a rule providing for the prompt discharge of any of their employees who married if their salaries were under $1,000 a year, so when the young clerk who was earning only $800 was married, he was told that his services were no longer required.

"Dual Nature" - About a painting that foretells a crime.

German comedy short.

A father's plan to arrange a marriage for his son goes awry when the son marries another woman, then brings her back to meet the family disguised as a man. What could go wrong?

Reconstruction one year later of the assassination of Colombian liberal leader Rafael Uribe Uribe; with the participation of the perpetrators: Jesús Carvajal and Leovigildo Galarza.

A framed clerk is freed in time to save his daughter from being murdered for her inheritance.

American western.

A Parisian bourgeois, reading in his morning paper, the recipe for bread K.K (the German kartoffelkriesggbrot based on potato flour), convinced of its nutritional qualities, asks his baker to make one. Dubitatif, the craftsman nevertheless executes himself and delivers to him the bread in question, the ingestion of which causes in our audacious gastronome atrocious stomach sufferings. To console him, the baker gave him a good French bread that evening.

Biography of master sword-smith Masamure which includes a fight with a demon.

Folletinescas adventure series, adapted from the novel "Barcelona and its mysteries" of Antoni Altadill. Is divided into 8 sessions: 1. Barcelona and its mysteries 2. The smuggler boat 3. The legacy of six million 4. The Counterfeiters 5. Shine 6. The will of a dying 7. The return of an inmate in August. Death of Diego Rocafort.

Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines.

Directed by James Barnes.

Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.

Italian soldiers on bicycle attacks!

Manhattan's Claremont Theatre is showing an Edison Company feature. A camera trained on the theater's front doors shows a crowd exiting. Most patrons are well dressed: some women carry muffs, almost all wear hats, some are elaborate; the men are in suits, as are many of the boys. All are white. Occasionally, the camera pans up to the marquee. The same people exit more than once; a woman pushing a baby carriage exits twice, By the end, the crowd is more animated, moving more quickly, smiling more. A final shot shows the whole theater in the frame, a crowd in front, a restaurant above.

the Choir Boys

Women in armaments production. Female workers manufacture detonators for grenades on semi-automatic lathes.

The first stars have lit up over Moscow, the breath of the coming night has already touched the White Capital, and Tverskaya Boulevard has come to life. The Zubov family lives peacefully, consisting of an old man-father, a factory worker, a young daughter, Katya, and two sons: the elder Pavel, who also works at the factory, and little Kolya.

Italian horror movie from 1915.

Silent film about the sights, special customs and habits of Japan in 1915.

Train ride through the narrow valley of the district of Visp in Switzerland.

A Colonel Heeza Liar Cartoon

Sposa nella morte! is a 1915 Italian silent drama film directed by Emilio Ghione and starring Lina Cavalieri. Only 15 minutes remain today.

A documentary chronicling the everyday lives of the Maori in New Zealand.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

A clever pictorial comedy is this cartoon, which graphically describes the tender love-tale of Julio, a masculine feline, and Romiet, the object of his affections.