Cinematic Era: 1919 Vintage

A short silent documentary showing the repatriation of returned Australian servicemen after World War One.

In a plot similar to, but predating, the later Superman stories, a young girl, Jenny, is involved in several dangerous adventures as a result of her possession of a valuable jewel. Each time she is saved by her normally shy, unassuming boyfriend, Audreses, who comes to her rescue disguised as a bare-chested wrestler wearing a mask.

Mutt and Jeff own and operate their own firehouse. Mutt believes where there's smoke, there's fire, which gets them into an early scrape. But they are called to an actual fire of a several storied residential building. A frantic woman asks them to save her baby who is located on the top floor of the burning building. Their first problem is how to get up to the top floor, which Jeff inadvertently figures out how to do. But other distractions plus trying to find the baby through the thick smoke may be obstacles in achieving their mission. But something that the woman doesn't tell them may be the biggest hurdle.

Betty buys a car; her husband Harry disagrees with her choice.

Dorothy Evans, a chemistry teacher at her aunt's girls school, hopes to satisfy her yearning for adventure when she vacations with her aunt, who desires to wear men's clothes, at a secluded island in the Chesapeake Bay. On the boat, they witness officers shooting an escaping prisoner diving overboard.

A story of a man writing letters to a woman. Based on the 1910 novel 'El Otro' by Eduardo Zamacois.

This documentary introduces outsiders to the scenic wonders and peoples of the far-off country. But the film also had a charitable purpose. Although reusing footage from Beautiful Japan—most noticeably the scenes with the Ainu of Hokkaido—it also interjects new material more central to the sponsor, about the role of women in Japan and their special needs. The film is incomplete and it is unclear how much of the film is missing.

Karl "Curly" Casterline, a wrongfully discharged New York City policeman, finds work on the Midwestern farm of Adolf Bauerle to help the war effort. Curly is attracted to his boss's niece, Mina, but also realizes that Adolf and his cohort, Kurz, plan to blow up a troop train. Curly kills the two saboteurs and saves the train, but he is jailed by the abusive Sheriff Herman Lindig. Although Mina praises Curly for saving the soldiers' lives, he is sentenced to death and is denied a pardon from the governor. After the case attracts national attention, the governor explains that he prolonged Curly's incarceration to draw attention to the danger of German propaganda.

Stencil-colored time lapse film.

Mary Herder is the private secretary of the junior member of the New York contracting firm of Thompson and Collins. When she learns of a plot by the firm's foreman, a Bolshevist, to blow up a ship that Collins, who once rescued a worker from the foreman's violence and who is active against Bolshevism, is visiting, she and her older brother Charles thwart the conspirators' plans. During the war, Charles is rescued by Collins, while the Knights of Columbus, under the Rev. Francis Kelly, help American boys. After the war, Charles, a victim of shell-shock, recovers when he holds his baby. Mary's younger brother Frank, a Secret Service man posing as a Bolshevist, learns of their plan to overthrow the government. After they suspect Frank and kidnap Mary and others, Frank and Collins, with members of his regiment, rescue them in the nick of time.

A widow and her daughters join the Women's Service Training Bureau and become a nurse, a journalist and a landscape gardener.

A young newspaperwoman travels to a South Seas island to search for buried treasure.

A girl's marriages to a cruel man, a squire, and a surgeon in Africa.

About all the complications that can arise when women appear in men's costumes, even if it's to save a friend in need.

Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats.

The Dark Russian Tragedy. The unspeakable sufferings of an entire tyrannical people are evoked in an impressive synthesis, and the visions of horror follow one another almost without interruption. a martyrdom without precedent in the history of the world.

Göran, the fosterson of the Count of Björksjö, falls in love with a lowborn girl, Vera. But when a sailor claims to have information about Vera’s parentage, the budding love affair is threatened.

The Kinonedelja (Kino-Week) newsreels represent Dziga Vertov's first contribution to cinema.

A ranch foreman innocently works for a crooked horse dealer. When he discovers the truth about his boss, and about the boss's plans to rob a young woman, the foreman quits his job and offers his services to the young woman. The task she presents him is to rescue her herd of Kentucky thoroughbred horses from the crooked dealer's bandits.

Arrival of war veterans at Wetzlar train station. The soldiers are greeted by a crowd at the station. As the train arrives from Cologne, the former prisoners of war, who came not only from the city of Wetzlar but from the entire district, probably came from France. A military band from the Reichswehr welcomes the arrivals, and women hand out flowers. A flag reads: "It is finished." A field kitchen near the station provides food for the returnees.

Scenes of the Panama Canal, generally in the natural order of passage, from a ship moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship passes by the Panamanian city of Colón on the Atlantic end, through the channel to Gatun Locks and into Gatun Lake, views of the Gatun spillway and the Chagres River. From here she passes from Gaillard Cut (Culebra Cut), into the Pedro Miguel Locks and into Miraflores Lake. Then through the Miraflores Locks and into the final portion of the canal, passing the Canal Zone towns of Ancon, Balboa, and Balboa Heights. Final views are of the Ancon Hospital (Gorgas Hospital) and the U.S. Administration Building at Balboa.

Lost Dora Film based on the 1906 song of the same title by Salvatore Gambardella, with music by Ernesto Murolo.

Lost Dora Film based on the drama "Gnesella" (1899) by Francesco Gabriele Starace

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

Third part of the "Verlorene Töchter" series

It premiered at the Teatro Royal in Punta Arenas on June 10, 1919. The film includes the following scenes: – Military parade on April 5. –Funeral of José Menéndez. – Echoes of the shipwreck of the “Alfonso”. – Overflow of the Las Minas River. – School athletic games. – Temporary in the bay. Film restored by the National Cinematheque of Chile.

A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.

South African Film

A husband longs for children, but his wife has no desire for children.

The Trials of Texas Thompson is a 1919 Western based on a Alfred Henry Lewis short story.

A fairy tale told via live actors's silhouettes, created by filming on a back lit stage.

"Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats. The year 1919 saw him in superb shape. In Sansone e la ladra di atleti he is joined by another sort of hero: Costante Girardengo, the first great champion of Italian cycling." - Andrea Meneghelli