Cinematic Era: 1917 Vintage

The Soda Jerker is a silent comedy short.

The King kisses Queen Mary on her return from inspecting tanks. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Soldiers in France demonstrate the workings of a tank to Queen Mary. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Although she is secretly in love with Wade Clayton, Laura Sheldon accedes to the wishes of her parents and marrries George Baring. Soon after, war breaks out between the North and South, and Clayton is made captain of the regiment. The entreaties of Laura prompt Baring to enlist against his will. Seized with fear during battle, Baring attempts to run away but is shot by a comrade and left for dead. At the finish of the war, Clayton returns home and relates how bravely Baring died in action. A few years later, Baring, who had been hiding in Cuba, returns.

Labor union movie from Edison Studios.

A lady unable to get a maid for a house showing dresses up as the main herself.

An occult scientist tries to steal a collector's Chinese staff.

The little Agenore combines a lot of trouble to family friend Ilario Mentecatti (Natale Guillaume).

Goaded by ambition for wealth, and the pleasure of her mother. Julia Long breaks her engagement with Jack Carter and marries George Bender, president of the National Bank.

Babette is living with her father, the jailer and hangman in the castle-jail at La Fourche.

Women's football in Gävle in 1917. Girls in puffy shorts and long socks play on grass.

Italian Silent Film

Dramatization of a chess game, where the characters were dressed like the various pieces and moved on a chessboard floor.

Rosie O'Grady is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by John H. Collins.

A Krazy Kat short.

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

Animated short about a medical check up.

A documentary filmed aboard a German U-Boat during the First World War, featuring footage of the capture and sinking of cargo ships and a private schooner.

After complaining about her dull life, shop girl Sally Manvers falls asleep on the roof of her apartment. Drenched from a downpour, Sally awakens and finds the roof entrance locked. She enters the apartment of society woman Mrs. Standish and encounters Mrs. Standish's brother, Walter Arden Savage, opening the safe. Sally protects Savage from a burglar, and after learning that he and his sister plan to steal their jewels to collect insurance money, she agrees to keep quiet if they take her with them to Newport.

The house of Thomas Chatterton is divided against itself. His son Joseph is an inebriate; his daughter Anne is a social butterfly who neglects her baby and husband; the old man lives in solitude. Edith Conway comes to visit the Chattertons and finds herself distinctly out-of-place, of a different type. Thomas Chatterton finds in Edith a long-wished-for companion.

Lost Dora Film production

A Krazy Kat short.

On the plot of a Russian folk song. Preserved without inscriptions.

Just imagine - picture in your mind, what would take place in a colored folks hotel, when all of the guests are having the kind of a good time no other but these awaiting a feast of fried spring chicken and hot biscuits being prepared by the big fat, black cook, the boss of the kitchen, when a blackhand letter is received from a discharged waiter threatening to blow up the place, and it is finally blown up.

A Terry Human Interest Reels.

A Mutt and Jeff short.

"Les Indes noires" is a French silent film directed by Michel Verne, released in 1917.

An early Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

South African Film

The inhabitants of Amsterdam enjoy themselves on the ice on the Herengracht. Skaters in Amsterdam get ready for their trip to Monnickendam and Marken. Along the way, the skaters pass by Ilpendam. In Broek in Waterland, skaters cross a bridge to reach another piece of ice. A cake-and-snacks stand sells hot chocolate.

A popular-scientific film about beekeeping. The beekeeper Jan Luberti gives a tour of his Bijenlust bee farm near The Hague, Netherlands, and shows the many aspects of keeping bees, and how they make honey.

A man's jealousy gets the best of him when he mistakes a man's interest in his dog, with interest in his wife.

A lost futurist black-and-white movie.

Lyrical drama in 5 parts, with participants. N.A. Chernova and Oleg Frelich. Some strange and heavy fate pursued a family of princes Belopolsky. The last in the Belopolsky family, Prince Sergei, was a beautiful but strange young man. He was not fond of entertainment, friends or women. His only passion was flowers; among strange exotic plants he spent his days and nights in the company of the Dutch gardener Hans.

An experimental short mixing live performance with film.

Footage from Northern Sweden.