Cinematic Era: 1916 Vintage

A Spanish Charlie Chaplin wannabe (Benito Perojo/Peladilla) takes his girl to watch a football match in Madrid. Doesn't take long before Peladilla gets in on the action on the pitch.

A young woman prays with faith in the image of a virgin and such is her devotion that the image offers her crown of jewels so she can turn it into money.

A laborer and the town's rich buck vie for the love a of a beautiful peasant lady, resulting in homicide. The first film produced in Puerto Rico, it is now considered lost.

Patriotic appeal for war savings on behalf of the Treasury.

The Model is a Italian film directed by Ugo Falena.

Danish short comedy. A hotel room mix-up with Frederik Buch on support as the hopeless military servant.

Contest between English girls and Belgian refugee girls. Game is part of a sports day at a home for recuperating wounded soldiers.

Calle does everything he can in order to be hired by the local theater.

Kindly widowed farmer John Hardy takes in the orphaned Ida Allen and due to her care of him adopts her. While there is a plan in place for John’s other daughter Eleanor to marry neighboring farmer Hugh Conway she has fallen in love with a wastrel, Paul Denny. Foolhardy, she elopes with Paul who quickly abandons the now pregnant Eleanor who then entreats Ida’s help. Ida comes to her aid, but Eleanor expires leaving Ida with the baby. Meanwhile Hugh and John have been led to believe Ida has disgraced them but when Denny returns looking for hush money, they learn the truth. Hugh banishes the blackard, finds and declares his love for Ida and the family is reunited.

"Colorful, educational, and visually playful, Les Destructeurs de nos jardins [The Destroyers of Our Gardens] was first released in France in March 1916, and months later distributed in the United States under the considerably tamer title, The Caterpillar. Emblematic of Pathé Frères’ robust program of documentary shorts, Les Destructeurs uses macro photography to great effect, granting intimate access to the hidden world of caterpillar feeding habits: in up-close, textural detail, several species of the titular insect crawl and cavort atop mountainous leaf ridges and tree-trunk plant stems." — Kirk McDowell

Cardo (an imitator of 'Charlot') tries his best to get the attentions of the beautiful girls in the Zoo - but the monkeys are strong competition for him.

Two men plan to invite their friends, so they buy a turkey and ask Olaf to cook it. Olaf is distracted by the prospect of going to the dance this night. As a consequence, the turkey turns out to be not edible. The chef Louie is asked to make dinner for the boss, but the ice box is empty. He has to improvise.

Two-minute excerpt from one of the World War One propaganda series by Dudley Buxton and Anson-Dyer, featuring a lightning sketch of Kaiser Wilhem receiving a telephone call.

The Pony Express Rider is a silent Western.

An early trickfilm created by Otto Messmer.

The film begins with shots of the castles of Bezděz, Točník and Karlštejn. In a restaurant at Karlštejn the guests remind Hašler that he is performing at the Varieté club. Hašler misses the train so he starts walking along the main road in the hope of getting a lift. In despair he forces a car to stop and makes the chauffeur to drive backwards to Prague. They stop at the wharf but, because he misses the steamboat , he uses a motorboat. The rest of the journey is spent on a tram. Hašler then quickly changes his clothes in his flat he reaches the Varieté club across the rooftops.

When the Greens move into a new apartment, Mrs. Green is concerned that Mr. Green is a bit too interested in the comely Mrs. Smith living in the apartment across the hall. Returning home drunk later that evening, Mr. Green accidently enters the Smiths’ apartment, setting off a humorous chain of events.

A cartoon based on Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp", with Chaplin himself supplying some gags.

Jean Servian's eyesight is failing and is desperate for money, marries wealthy widower Geoffrey Vane after telling him that he must be satisfied with her gratitude rather than her love. Then, following an affair with artist Philip Derblay, who finally leaves her, Jean settles down to a quiet, boring life with Geoffrey, who knows nothing about her failed romance. Years later, however, after Lucille, Geoffrey's daughter by his first wife, becomes engaged to Philip, Jean feels compelled to tell the story of her own affair with him. The disclosure has little effect as Lucille makes no change in her wedding plans, but then, when she breaks in on a violent argument between Philip and Lucille, Jean accidentally shoots and kills her former lover. A trial results in her acquittal, however, after which Jean realizes that she really does love Geoffrey, who easily forgives his wife for her past indiscretion.

The prospector enters the western dance hall, and upon seeing the gambler, takes a mallet and apparently kills the man. He is captured by the posse and as he is dangling from a tree tells the story of how, years before, he and Ben had been in Texas together, Ben fleecing Rube of all his savings, robbed him of his girl, and disappeared. As Rube is about to breathe his last word, a message comes to the effect that Ben has recovered. The posse cut Rube down and take him back. He discovers that the girl is still with Ben and is the mother of seven urchins. Ben tries to rid himself of this domestic burden, but Rube flees on his trick mule and has the last laugh on the gambler.

A poet has run out of ideas for his film script, much to the chagrin of himself and the film factory's director, Mr Meter. In a dream, the poet delivers the perfect script. (Stumfilm.dk)

Retired nags enjoy a well-earned New Year's feed at the Cricklewood Home of Rest for Horses.

Film #109 in the Hazards of Helen series

A 1916 Fred Evans comedy

A short dance performance about the mythical goddess of the hunt

A woman tries to lose weight.

A band of gypsy thieves breaks into an estate, knowing that no men are home.

Three friends and co-workers - Knut, Åke and Olle - engage in some practical jokes involving in each other's lovelife.

1916 American silent film.

A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

A poor couple decides to sell their child to a wealthy couple in the city in order to buy a good piece of land.

Identical twin brothers, Ward and Clyde Kingsley lives intertwine in a scheme involving marriage, insurance fraud, and mistaken identity. Clyde marries heiress Agnes for her money, but when he plans to fake his death with the help of his dying twin Ward, Agnes falls for Ward, leading to a murder plot where Clyde is accidentally killed by his own accomplices, leaving Ward and Agnes to marry after Ward's recovery.

A queen's ex-lover saves her from the prince who killed her father.

One of the series about the adventures of Baldy, played by French comedian Rober Reynols, who had moved to Russia, was a raving success with illiterate audiences before the revolution. Universal gags plus expressive gesticulation - and the credits were no longer needed.

The devil dreams about a bottle of rum sentenced to die at curfew.

Pelle Jöns does tricks as a snake person, swallows a sword and attempts to swallow a canon.

The circus director is trying to make Pelle Jöns stop smoking. After making the director disappear in a smoke cloud, Pelle Jöns draws a women who comes to life and starts doing tricks with a horse.

Japanese horror movie from 1916.

The celebrated and vain cellist Karél impresses the royal couple with his virtuoso playing. When the princess invites Karél to go driving with her the following day, he convinces himself that she’s in love with him. He woos her ardently and sends her all the flowers he has received at the theatre. While waiting for a response, he falls asleep and dreams up all sorts of crazy scenarios for the outcome of his courting. Stumfilm.dk

1916 French movie

Female cyclists from all parts of London meet at the Angel Ditton, before cycling to Wisley for a picnic.

Drama about two families of different classes in Germany during World War I

Learning that Maxwell, the millionaire munitions manufacturer, has the apartment adjoining theirs in the hotel, Mona and Mary seek his aid in furthering their plans for social reforms.

South African Film

Pa buys a detective novel, but Bobby and Fido keep stealing it to read before he has a chance to.