All Films

The Winning Stroke

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

In a mock fraternity initiation, a group of Yale students haze Paul Browning for tattling. When he learns that the leader of the group, oarsman Buck Simmons, is also winning the favor of Aida Courtlandt, the dean's niece, the jealous Browning and gambler Burton Hampdon, to whom Browning owes money, attempt to disgrace Buck so he will not be allowed to participate in the upcoming Yale-Harvard race. After they fail to lure Buck to bed with a girl, Browning takes Aida to a roadhouse so that Buck will have to break training rules to go there. When the coach, suspicious about the roadhouse incident, finds a letter planted on Buck about a deal for him to throw the race, he suspends Buck, but with Aida's influence, the dean straightens matters out. After Yale wins a close race, Browning shoots at Buck, who then trounces him. Proclaimed captain of the next year's team, Buck becomes engaged to Aida.

Cupid Forecloses

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.

Rolling Stone

1919 • 19 min • United States of America

A Chaplin-like tramp is mistaken for a Bolshevik

The Avalanche

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.

Towards the Light

1919 • 55 min • Denmark

Countess Ysabel is a young and rich woman with many suitors. An elegant and adventurous baron has managed to win her heart, but she anyway continues to play with other men’s feelings. Nemesis hits her when a young man with a broken heart kills himself, and the baron at the same time reveals a horrible secret. Ysabe'ls world seems to fall apart.

Dull Care

1919 • 20 min • United States of America

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.

The Professor

1919 • 7 min • United States of America

Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.

Bill Henry

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.

Partners Three

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

Agnes Cuyler, a cabaret singer in New York who loathes her work, is fired for slapping Grant Haywood, a customer from the West who tries to kiss her. Haywood begs forgiveness and after glorifying the clean Western life, proposes. To escape her circumstances, Agnes accepts, but soon learns that Haywood is a brutal drunkard.

Intoxication

1919 • 60 min • Germany

Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.

Marked Men

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

Three outlaws rescue a baby in the desert and with barely any water left try to return to the town in which they just robbed a bank. Lost film. A remake of 1916's "The Three Godfathers," which also starred Harry Carey.

Girls

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

Man-haters Pamela Gordon, Violet and Kate West, each disappointed in love, vow never to marry, and room together with a sign above their door reading "No man shall cross this threshold." When Edgar Holt enters their room to escape an irate husband whose jealousy he mistakenly aroused, he falls in love with Pamela, but she makes him leave through a window across an ironing board over a courtyard. Edgar woos Pamela but he is unsuccessful in breaking down her resolve, even though she privately softens and develops a love for him. To help her, Edgar secretly gets her a position as a confidential secretary with his firm.

Who Cares?

1919 • 50 min • United States of America

A vivacious, carefree young girl is disgusted by the thought of growing old. In her despondency she adopts the motto "Who cares?" and does her best to live up to it, even after she marries the handsome and dashing Martin Grey.

Der Feind hört mit

1918 • 18 min

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 .

The Legend of Saint Barbara

1918 • 5 min • Italy

Short film in which Barbara's father is killed in a raid of the Vandals. When Barbara and the other women are threatened, she throws a box with explosives, killing the attackers.

Armistice Clock Face

1918 • 1 min

Shot of newspaper headline announcing end of WW1 + clock at 5 o'clock.

Allied Offensive, July 1918

1918 • 12 min

Silent film of U.S. aircraft downing a German plane, plus a vaudeville show and more.

La battaglia dall’Astico al Piave

1918 • 57 min • Italy

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

Spying the Spy

1918 • 16 min • United States of America

Amateur detective Sambo Sam sets out to round up German spies, but his bungling leads him to the Coffin Club, a fraternal organization with a morbid sense of humor just itching to have some fun at the would-be sleuth's expense.

Cambó i l'autonomia

1918 • 1 min • Spain

Spöket på Junkershus

1918 • 53 min • Sweden

Three sisters live with their aunt, the mistress of Junkershus, and are very annoyed at their sanctimonious and tiresome cousin Jonas, who sometimes carouse down in the town, sometimes crawls the most repulsively before the rich old lady. The most beautiful of the sisters, Madelaine, writes to their favorite cousin Curt Junker, and asks him to come and reveal Jonas's hypocrisy, which their aunt in her credulity seems to be blind to.

The Queen and the Land Lassies: Topical Budget 343-2

1918 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Queen Mary inspects women farm hands on parade at Buckingham Palace. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Buckingham Palace Allotment: Topical Budget 360-2

1918 • 1 min

The royal family contributes to the war effort by harvesting turnips in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Danger Ahead

1918 • 18 min • United States of America

Tom Covington, a freight train conductor, who tries to get his rival Ralph Lasher into trouble by putting oil on the tracks.