Cinematic Era: 1919 Vintage

Denis Marcant is all about business day or night. He neglects his wife Élise and their son Georges. During the winter, Marcant takes them both to the south of France so he can work alone in Paris. During this short stay, he meets his friend Pierre Daumier. Élise had previously helped him to overcome his passion for an evil girl, and Pierre falls in love with her. One day, Georges woos her on his yacht "l'Ibis Bleu" (The blue ibis), and they forget both the time and little Georges. Denis gets an anonymous note about the situation and he finds the child alone, crying near his mother's empty bed. Élise is then thrown out by her husband. She tries to commit suicide but Pierre stops her in time. Pierre's mother intercedes, but more than anything, it is the child's sorrow which makes the man forgive.

Charlie Chaplin visits the realms of fantasy, going to Mars and other planets as he journeys through the Milky Way.

Camera iris opens to six ponies with decorated harnesses and plumed halters, standing in the center of a stage with a painted backdrop of mountains. Cuts to two ponies on a seesaw, with a moustached man in a white uniform with dark piping and a white cap holding their leads. A second trainer in a dark suit can also be seen occasionally with the ponies. Individual ponies perform a variety of tricks, including rolling a slatted barrel across the stage with front legs and then with a nose, knocking over the barrel, "limping" across the stage with one front leg held off the ground, and pushing the trainer over with a nose-butt.

Detailed report covering the subject of the battlefields near the Yser River in West-Flanders. The story of the battle is being told through animated maps, photographs and moving images. The patriotic texts on the title cards idolizes the courage and persistence of the Belgian soldiers.

A slapstick comedy featuring Mack Swain.

The sea front and streets of Saltcoats flooded by high seas.

South American Cinematographic,

A family of wowsers, the McWowses, oppose jazz dancing but are converted to its joys.

Views of Christ Episcopal Church, the funeral procession, and Youngs Memorial Cemetery during the funeral of Theodore Roosevelt on January 8, 1919, in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

King Albert visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, and is accompanied by his son Prince Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and several dignitaries. Identified in film are Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium, walking in the rear of the group, and a man who may be Joseph M. Nye walking beside King Albert. Interior title states that King Albert requested that no pictures be taken at gravesite. Film contains only shots of the King's party walking from the grave and of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., King Albert, and an unidentified man sitting in an open car ready to depart.

Medium close view of TR Jr. talking with two sailors and two soldiers. Interior title identifies TR Jr. as one of the founders of the new Legion, which was incorporated by Congress on Sept. 16, 1919 as the American Legion.

On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Views of Samuel Abbott, originator of the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on TR's grave. Sequence of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr., suffering from a machine gun wound in the leg, returned as a casual from France to New York City aboard the Mauretania on March 6, 1919. Medium close shot of TR Jr., dressed in uniform, aboard what may be the liner Mauretania, docked at the Cunard pier, North River, New York City.

An educational short.

Early documentary about various animal species, both extinct and still living.

Italian silent film

British adaptation of the story “The Monkey’s Paw” from 1919.

American horror short from 1919.

Adam Varney, a former transport rider, makes an unexpected appearance in the camp of Dalmayne, a prospector looking for gold somewhere in southern Africa

South African Film

Another film, along with BLANC ET NOIR, from the series of pseudo-psychological dramas by Kinofilm. The film has not survived to this day, all copies burned during World War II.

Adaptation of a novel by Salvatore Farina published in 1875. Love story about a count falling for a girl selling her blonde hair to buy medicine for her ill mother.

Philips presents itself as a modern, international company that has its own laboratory, power station, and transport service. Notable in the film is the detailed attention paid to the various components of the lightbulbs. Concert footage of the ‘Philip’s Harmonie’ in performance shows that Philips was proud of the many facilities it provided to its employees. The Eindhoven-based factory offered its workers accommodation, sports, and recreation.

Ruth, the belle of Bedford village in New England, is loved by the minister, but she becomes infatuated with Alec Peters, the brakeman on the train which she rides to school.

At the Stora Morgonbladet newspaper office the daily work has started, at the same time the journalist Maggie Frisch has just noticed how late she is and what a great position in the paper her article from yesterday has received. She hopes to use the success of her article to lessen the anger of her boss when she gets to the office.

Documentary shots from the inauguration of Södertälje ski slope in Sweden, 1919-01-25 to 1919-01-26.

Bobby Bumps and Fido call up their creator Earl Hurd on the telephone and get invited over for the day.

From workers opening bales of cotton, this film follows the processes that turn the raw resource into a product ready for the shops. Cleaning, straightening, carding, spinning and weaving - all these and more are on view in this visual record of the Lancashire textile industry, made for the firm of Barlow and Jones Ltd., and filmed at their mills in Bolton and their Manchester warehouse. -BFI

Film that marks a milestone in the Argentinean social cinema and that reflects the labor revolts suppressed during the Tragic Week in January of 1919.

Propaganda film released in 1919.

In this one-minute animated short done by Ford Motor's industrial film unit -- Ford was a major producer of films for many a decade -- Lady Liberty keeps opening the chest, revealing the name of various wartime Liberty Loan drives and good old Uncle Sam does a striptease and tossing clothes into the effort.

It contains: The Archbishop of Lima, Emilio Lisson, and the Peruvian community in Paris lay a wreath at the tomb of Admiral Petit-Thouars; views of the attendees, including Messrs. Enrique Goitizolo, Juan Bautista de Lavalle, the García Calderón brothers, Víctor Maúrtua, and Carlos Rey de Castro.

It contains: views of Don José Pardo at the site of the fire; views of the material damage, with losses valued at one and a half million soles.

Winnipeg, where strikers attend meetings and marches. Police are filmed making arrests. The strike lasted six weeks.

Lieutenant Curt Junker is all out of money and indebted. He needs to come up with money, quick.

Views of the Torrero's cemetery.

A bird sanctuary near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan is shown. Here in their native haunts are the gull, the heron, the tern, and many other birds as they are in their everyday life. Nesting, mating, swimming and flying, all are shown here in a rare picture.

Miss Arizona Farnley (Gertrude Bondhill), tomboy of the West, avenges the death of her father, who was killed by Bob Evans during a bar fight at The Oasis.

On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. View of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies. Shots from different angles of memorial flag as it is borne by young men up the steep pathway to the gravesite; five girls sew the 48th and final star on flag at what is probably Cove School in Oyster Bay with group of children and Boy Scouts visible in background; view of children and adults on cemetery grounds. Final scene of Samuel Abbott, originator of memorial flag idea, placing flag on TR's gravesite.

Lost Dora Film based on a novel by Carolina Invernizio

Live recording of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's funeral in Ottawa.