Cinematic Era: 1918 Vintage

Based on a well-known Japanese folk tale about an honest fisherman who is invited to an underwater castle after saving a sea turtle on a beach from bullies.

A man tries to find the true culprit when his friend is accused of murdering a moneylender.

Short slapstick comedy

Actuality of the "Sascha film" about the proclamation of the republic on November 12, 1918

A secret band murders one of the Winter brothers, scientists, who have discovered a new explosive.

The character of Goodrich Dirt - a squat, bearded fellow whos a hapless dimwit - was the creation of Wallace Carlson, one of Brays animators. In Goodrich Dirt, Cowpuncher hes hired as a ranchhand-a profession for which hes in no way suited.

A silent film featuring women war workers, high school boys training for war, and more.

The film documents Trieste's annexation to the Kingdom of Italy November 3, 1918.

Directed by Pyotr Chardynin.

1918 travelogue.

Axis troops in Lahti and Riihimäki in 1918, armored train, Red Guard prisoners, White Guards.

A documentary of the joint effort of four Allied nations in overcoming the armies of Germany in the First World War, from the initial outbreak of war to the celebration of the Armistice, which occurred only six days before this film's release.

Dr. Robert Winston loses faith in himself and his religion when his own mother dies under his scalpel. Abandoning his profession, he moves to the Canadian Northwest, where he avoids companionship and drinks constantly. Despite Robert's atheism, he attracts the interest of Jeanette Mercier, the minister's daughter, and under her gentle influence, he is slowly regenerated. In the meantime, an Indian named Lone Deer bids a temporary farewell to his sweetheart Winona, whose father wishes to die among his own people, but when he finds her canoe overturned in the water, he assumes that she has drowned. Later Lone Deer saves Jeanette from Lou Baribeau, the brutal and lecherous company agent, but is seriously wounded in the struggle. Rev. Mercier convinces Robert to operate, and because the procedure proves successful, the doctor regains his faith and marries Jeanette. Winona finally returns to aid in Lone Deer's recovery.

Álvaro Ramos, an incorrigible bohemian, thrown out of the boarding house where he lived for lack of payment, finds fifty thousand réis on the street. He buys a lottery ticket number 013 and wins a big prize.

Camera pans the home of a merchant named Ipatiev, where Nicholas II, last Russian emperor, and his royal family were executed in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), July 1918. Second sequence is views of men, identified by interior title as Bolshevik prisoners, standing behind barbed wire as guards patrol.

These Land Girls are firm friends - and just as good at farm work as the men they replaced during WWI.

Mutt and Jeff are in the trenches when they see a pretty nurse. Mutt tells Jeff that the nurses kiss the wounded men when they bring their meals so Jeff gets Mutt to shoot him in the foot. In hospital, Jeff is tended by a male black nurse. When Mutt visits him, Jeff chases him out of the hospital. (NFA Catalogue)

The film is a classic selection of Finland's major sightseeing attractions.

A devotional film.

A Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Toto is chief chef and bottle washer in the home of a millionaire. The home, incidentally, is run by the servants.

King Nikola in exile in Neuilly-sur-Seine, two years after he was forced to flee Montenegro following 61 years as the very visible ruler of his people.

A Jaxon Comedy

Follows the story of the amorous passion that arose between two young people brought up as brothers and whose wedding is opposed by the family patriarch.

A rebellion strike at a mountain work is infiltrated by crooks, and they have to rise up against the rotten apples in their work force.

Surrender of German naval forces, November 1918

A simple old story of the girl who longs to yield to her lover's appeal that they be married at once, but hesitates to break the news to "pa."

A Mutt and Jeff Cartoon. The mismatched pair find themselves dabbling in the title pursuit.

British fictional piece on the need to save soap and other fats

War documentary filmed in Val Camonica (Brescia)

One of the earliest Egyptian films - silent. Possibly lost.

Bobby and Fido, hidden behind a snow bank, have a contraption that folds down and expands upwards. It is gradually revealed to be a snow ball gun. It is replete with a scope that Fido looks through to comment on their aim ("too high," "too low"). They successfully knock the top hat off a passing gentlemen two times in succession. Then they hit a washer woman in the head. She pursues them, getting pelted as she approaches the snow bank. Bobby and Fido take flight, pulling the gun on a small cart behind them. The washer woman runs after them. They climb a hill leaving marks in the snow. The washer woman follows.

Short comic film about a woman in love with a man who is continually haunted by a creepy spirit.

The lives of some inhabitants living in the eastern mountains of Tennessee and in the 'moonshine country' of northern Georgia and Kentucky.

A Italian documentary short from 1918.

Trieste, Italian again, welcome for the first time his King.

La battaglia dall’Astico al Piave was made by the Italian Royal Army Film Department in 1918, and testifies to the events between 14 and 30 June 1918 which decided the outcome of the Second Battle of the Piave, when the Italian army under the command of General Armando Diaz defeated the Austro-Hungarian Empire, heralding its decline and ultimate downfall

Report about the 'Joyeuse entrée' of the Belgian royal house in Brussels, soon after liberation.