Cinematic Era: 1917 Vintage

Gross misunderstandings result in the young actor Jean leaving his wife and child. Years later, the family meets again in the theatre. Jean enters the stage as Pjerrot, whilst his wife and their daughter sit in the audience. The daughter slips behind the stage unnoticed, where suddenly a fire breaks out. Jean, dressed as a clown, must plunge into the flames in a heroic attempt to save both his marriage and the life of his estranged daughter. (Stumfilm.dk)

Business partners Storch and Søndergaard are in for a very confusing day. The birthday child Storch reminds Søndergaard that it is his wedding day, which prompts Søndergaard to immediately send flowers home to his wife. In response, Mrs Søndergaard sends a lunch invitation to her husband as well as a birthday card to Storch. The cards become mixed up with befuddling consequences for both couples. (Stumfilm.dk)

The vagabond comes to the little village and to the farm of Pierre, where toil Toinon and Francois. There is a plague upon the sheep, and the vagabond pauses in his wanderings to cure the sheep - and win the love of Toinon. But the road calls him, and he goes, leaving the girl broken hearted. Francois marries her, and the child, Toinet, grows to be a lusty lad who loves the daughter of Pierre. Pierre, knowing the secret of his birth, refuses his consent, but again comes the vagabond, and once more his strange spells work for happiness, but he turns his back upon his new found son and the happiness he has wrought. The call of the open road is too strong.

George V and Queen Mary pay a morale boosting visit to the dry docks in the north-east of England in June 1917. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion", and also part of the BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Directed by Beaumont Smith.

Ethel Warren has many suitors for her hand. She cannot decide between two of them, Anson Pryce, a lawyer, and John King, a journalist. John has had an accident and lost the use of an arm. War is declared and both men hasten to volunteer. Anson is accepted at once, but John is rejected on account of his arm.

An English orphan, raised by a Persian household, runs away to Paris.

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

Jerry from the top of a tree is making love to his girl at the window opposite. A policeman interferes and is put to sleep when Jerry falls on him. Jerry appropriates his clothes and enters his girl's home, arrests her father, who has been peppering him with a gun, and has him sent to the police station. Jerry gets his autoped and starts with the daughter for a ride. In the country they are discovered by Bad Bill and his outlaws. They take Jerry and the girl to a cabin where a fight ensues as to who shall have possession of the girl. It is finally decided that the bandits shall draw cards. Jerry objects and is locked in the attic. He escapes by climbing down the wall. Entering the cabin, he crawls along the floor, frisks the bandits' guns from their holsters and makes the bandits back against the door. Meanwhile the policeman has recovered consciousness and with his brother officers starts on Jerry's trail. They arrive at the cabin as Jerry is about to flee.

A tinted silent film about a murder plot.

A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.

Death reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.

A young woman marries a wealthy count she does not love, after she learns of her beau's flirtations with another woman.

Sylvia Mason, a mysterious girl, lives in a cabin by herself and sells her bead work to the visitors at a large hotel nearby. At the hotel, Sylvia meets Easterner Henry Hilliard, who falls in love with her, but she refuses to marry him and will not explain her reasons. Thus Henry returns East without learning that Sylvia's father had been murdered by his private secretary Jack Leslie in revenge for her refusal to marry him. One night after Henry's departure, Leslie, now known as the outlaw "The Shadow", breaks into Sylvia's cabin. There is a struggle that leaves Sylvia unconscious, and when she awakens she finds a note claiming that because Leslie has violated her, she must marry him.

The movie has been preserved without inscriptions.

Musty becomes a carpenter's assistant. He decides that a twin brother would be a great help to him in his work, so he makes one out of wood. Thrown out of the shop, Musty and the dummy break into a girls' tea party with startling results. Of course, in the end, our hero gets very much the worst of it.

A gypsy girl grows up with the sole purpose of seeking revenge against the man responsible for her mother's death.

Part of a 3 part series (Mysteries of Warsaw).

Three hikers visit Eliot Glacier on Oregon's Mount Hood.

Musty Suffer gets married.

Lost Dora Film production based on the novel by Francesco Mastriani

Wet and Dry is a silent film comedy.

The most popular man in the lumber camp near Quebec is Jean, the cook, whose flapjacks are celebrated for their delectability. Jean's compassionate nature is aroused when a dejected stranger known as Silent Jack comes to the camp. Discovering Jack crying one day, Jean learns that his wife has left him. To reunite the couple, Jean pretends that he too is married and induces Jack to write an affectionate letter from him which he then presents to Mrs. Jack.

Opening scene of a man, woman, and two children with presents walking up to a house in Oyster Bay, N.Y.; one child enters house, comes back out, then the woman enters; two older girls stand in doorway; TR, carrying a present, walks up to the house; final scene is of TR talking with group as they all pose while a small girl peeks out of the door.

One of the few known films shot in 1917 in Ukraine (UPR). The film contains portrait of the head of the General Secretariat - the first government of Ukraine, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the head of the Ukrainian Central Rada, Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky, with a group of members of the UCR near the Pedagogical Museum in Kyiv, where the Ukrainian Central Rada worked, and a group of delegates to the eighth session of the UCR.

An evil man follows two sisters who move to a big city. The first Turkish film shot abroad.

Early musical based on the popular song of the same name.

A silent film directed by Aleksander Hertz.

Early animated short by Gregory La Cava

An Ebony Film Company short.

Harriet Wold and Ragnar Berntzen are engaged, but she falls in love with Lieutenant Wang and he with the priest's daughter Anna. As they confess this to each other with anxiety and trembling, they are delighted when they hear that both are equal. It will be engagement and joy.

Queen Mary and Princess Mary visit women workers at Woolwich dockyard. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian

Lost film.

Henry, after being neglectful in sending his wife flowers and candy, is aroused to a jealous rage when his wife proceeds to have flowers and candy sent to herself.

The story of Little Red Riding Hood is told through the use of doll animation. Features puppet likenesses of famous movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford. A short from the Mo-Toy Troupe series.

Unscrupulous innkeeper Felix Maillon uses his foster daughter Trude to get customers. When the wealthy Count Maillon dies, a battle for his inheritance awaits.

It all begins when Nirka takes the daughter she has had by Prince Rodolpho and hands her to a confederate. He in turn hands her over to a hag, who first torments her, and later abandons her to an orphanage.

Melodrama about love and deceit.

Likely shot in the summer of 1916, gives a tour of Anchorage, including the Alaska Labor Union Hall log building, which was burned down shortly after.

Based on an idea by Helen Duey.

The old foot-soldier and his son, the Hussar.

Footage of a water festival on Amsterdams's Amstel River. Both recreational as well as competition rowers take part in the popular festival, which attracts thousands of visitors.