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The Dutch factory shown in the film manufactures e.g. lightbulbs, street lamps, bowls, and cups. Various facets of the production process are captured: melting, glass-blowing, heating, cooling, decorating, modelling, grinding, and glazing.
A Dutch envoy falls for the wife of an English diplomat in Turkey.
Der Feind hört mit is a propaganda film showing the unintentional effects of a negligent comment made by one German radio operator which causes the loss of many German lives. The slogan Feind hört mit (= the enemy is listening) is the German equivalent of loose lips sink ships .
Émile Cohl produced independently an animated series titled "Les Aventures des Pieds Nickelés". There were four series of these produced, all released between 1917 and 1918.
In the process of housing redistribution, a worker and his daughter are relocated from a damp basement to one of the rooms at a professor's spacious flat. Factory workers begin to visit and the number of guests grows and grows; the professor begins to hold widely attended lectures at the workers' club. Romance blossoms between the professor's youngest son and the worker's daughter, and the two decide to marry...
Rosita Manners falls in love with Tony and they become engaged on a picnic at Port Hacking. Rosita's mother wants her daughter to marry Valentine Loring, who she believes is of noble blood. Tony and Rosita elope, so Rosita's mother tries to marry Valentine herself – until she discovers he is not from nobility, but just a dress designer.
The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.
Little Nan Griffing whiles away the hours on her parents' farm with Simple Simon Magee, an adult with the mind of a child. While rummaging through the attic one day, Nan discovers a costume that was worn by her mother Ethel when she was on the stage and begs to be taught to dance. Ethel complies, but the lessons are soon interrupted by several horrified members of the local church society.
The proclamation of the first republic in Vienna. A film document from the mass rally on November 12, 1918, taken on behalf of the State Council.
Film version of the play.
Breaking the Treaty of London Italy occupied the Hungarian Harbour town Rijeka on the coast of Croatia during the last days of the war, ‘liberating’ it from the non-Italian enemy (à choix: Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Slovenia). Footage of the celebration of the ‘liberation’, a nightmare that would end only in 1945, shows a happy crowd, women with bunches of flowers, one general gives a speech and the other decorates soldiers. The town was renamed Fiume and soon became the site of a bizarre and frightening episode with poet Gabriele D’Annunzio as the violently narcissistic leader of violently nationalistic irregular troops. Fiume, the place and the name, today signifies the beginning of fascism in Italy.
A World War I promotional cartoon for war savings stamps.
The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.
Little Sallie O'Brien, who sells newspapers on the city streets, is adopted by Bridget Cassidy, the landlady, when her mother dies. Mrs. Cassidy treats the child cruelly, but soon the wealthy James Wilson befriends Sallie and takes her into his home. Sallie is befriended by Wilson's son Richard, but his daughter Marjorie dislikes the impish little girl.
Young playwright Harold Montague travels to the Kentucky mountains to seek the local color that his manager has complained is lacking in his new play. There he falls in love with Kate Kendall, a mountain girl, and tries to befriend a group of moonshiners, who regard him with suspicion because of their fear of revenue officers.
A horse tamer is the father of a beautiful girl who is coveted by his neighbor, a rich farmer. The farmer seduces and kidnaps the poor girl. The man, desperate, goes after him. In the end, when he tries to hit the man, he ends up hitting his beloved daughter. Not knowing what to do, he starts a fire in the farmer's forest, but when he sees that the fire is taking over his property, he decides to hang himself.
Sequences of TR speaking on two occasions: on Sept. 28, 1918, he addresses crowds in Baltimore in support of the fourth Liberty Loan; at Sagamore Hill on April 2, 1918, he encourages workers for the third Liberty Loan. At Oriole Park in Baltimore TR, wearing a mourning armband for his son, Quentin, helps open the fourth Liberty Loan campaign.
On Sept. 28, 1918, Theodore Roosevelt is the principal speaker at the opening of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Oriole Baseball Park, Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a mourning armband for his son, Quentin, Roosevelt walks across the field with Liberty Loan officials, including a man who appears to be Phillips L. Goldsborough, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee for Maryland and former governor of the state. Roosevelt pauses and speaks with Cardinal James Gibbons. On the speaker's platform, Roosevelt is cheered by the crowd. Among the notables behind him on the platform are Cardinal Gibbons, a man who appears to be Governor Emerson C. Harrington of Maryland, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, who was the wife of former President Grover Cleveland, and her husband, Dr. Thomas J. Preston, with the dark mustache. Roosevelt addresses the crowd. There are long and close-up shots of the crowd.
Short film directed by Emil Leyde.
Upon the liberation of Skopje on the 25th September 1918, the cameramen of the Cinematographic section of Photography department of the Serbian Army filmed the town's appearance, local musical orchestras, Dusan's bridge, entry of the military units into town, citizens on the town streets, station Ajvatovac close to Skopje, as well as escorting of the captive Bulgarian soldiers through the town.
A footage from Gaumont Graphic Newsreel shows a tent of the Turkish Red Crescent.
Dutch Koninklijke Begeer corporate film showing their processing of precious metals and stones.
Documentary/travelogue exploring the sights and people of the Virgin Islands.
A Katzenjammer Kids cartoon.
Maria, an accountant at a factory, falls for Rudolph, who has his eyes set on the factory owner's daughter.
Lost film Western
Stop Motion Animated short.
Fritzi works in an elegant fashion house. One day she accidentally breaks an expensive mannequin and solves the problem by taking its place.
A colonel's son conquers his cowardice by fighting his rival for a gypsy.
A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes the money and buys a saloon in another town.
A farce in which a couple unwittingly save up money for the same thing. Without knowing it, a man and a woman both save up money for a gramophone. Buying beans earns many “savings points”, so both of them stock up on beans. At the end, the couple is left with an enormous amount of beans, and two gramophones.
In Wales, a gypsy queen changes her sister's dead baby for one by the same father. The child grows up to marry her daughter.
Polidor, wearing two pairs of pants, left the necklace she wants to give to a young woman in the inner pocket of his trousers. In an attempt to strip generates embarrassment to all diners.
A fragment of a short comedy of Neapolitan setting, in which the actor Vincenzo Scarpetta, son of playwright Eduardo, is struggling with a Miss across the Atlantic. The woman throws a chest in the sea, asking his lover to recover it as proof of love. He turns to a fisherman, offering him money to complete the recovery for him. The film, shot in 1916, was, for reasons unknown, unpublished until 1918.
A anti-war film about war and children.
Abraham Lincoln, the boy, defends a funny little black boy accused of stealing a white rooster. After a swift chase, Jim, the black boy, is captured with the fowl under his arm, and he is about to be roughly handled by the angry youths when Abe intervenes and suggests that the trembling captive be given a fair trial by jury.
A married woman flirts with other men.
A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.