All Films

Sanatorium militaire de Bligny

1918 • 31 min

Film shot on May 16th 1917 for the Rockefeller Foundation's anti-tuberculosis propaganda campaign in France

Serbian Army Entering Skopje

1918 • 4 min • Serbia

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 Trip through the Lassen Volcanic National Park

1918 • 13 min

The mountain’s explosive [is] front and center in A Trip through the Lassen Volcanic National Park. The centerpiece of this short film is footage of Lassen in action, as novel now as it was at the time of its release in 1918. With these images, cinematographer J. J. Hammer of Red Bluff, California, created what one expert determined “might be the second oldest existing film of an erupting volcano” as well as “one of the first in a long line of volcanic films that capture the majesty and awe-inspiring views of an eruption.” [...] By the early 1920s Lassen was completely at rest. Today, Hammer’s film, along with the still photographs captured by Loomis and others, constitute a remarkable and thrilling visual record of an earth-shattering event, both for park lovers and film aficionados.

Gaumont Graphic Newsreel: The Turkish Red Crescent Tent

1918 • 4 min

A footage from Gaumont Graphic Newsreel shows a tent of the Turkish Red Crescent.

La femme française pendant la guerre

1918 • 37 min • France

August 1914: wife and mother, woman's first sacrifice is to see her beloved depart for the front. In a city, she works in railway stations,as a waitress or even as a chimney sweep. At the factory, she only interrupts her work to feed her baby. At the country she does the plowing or picks olives. But above all a wife, she brings the soldier "fraternity and tenderness", parcels, love notes and care. She brings flowers to the dead's tombs, and remains ever present in the soldier's heart.

Tell It to the Marines

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

After a busy day of playing pranks on their father's servants and guests, Harry Williams' daughters Jane and Katherine tumble into bed and fall asleep. Having seen a film depicting World War I fighting in Europe, little Jane dreams that two armies, consisting entirely of mechanical dolls, are advancing against each other in battle. While Trik leads the German troops, who are guilty of committing a score of atrocities, Trak heads the Allied army, which ultimately wins the war. In the end, Jane awakens with a start to find that it has all been a dream.

A Reckless Rover

1918 • 14 min • United States of America

Chased from his apartment by a policeman, ne'er do-well Rastus Jones finds refuge in a Chinese laundry, where he wreaks slapstick havoc and has a memorable encounter with an improperly-filled opium pipe.

Bathing Beauties and Big Boobs

1918 • 14 min • United States of America

A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.

Fiume 1918

1918 • 8 min

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.

Kapten Grogg gifter sig

1918 • 10 min

Captain Grogg proposes to Sylfidia after saving her from a lobster. Kalle tries to talk him out of it.

Lavez-vous les mains avant chaque repas

1918 • 2 min • France

Tale of Priest Pankrat

1918 • 27 min • Russia

The first Soviet anti-religious film.

A Man's Sacrifice

1918 • 53 min • Denmark

Colleagues Maurice and Charles are connected through a close friendship, as Maurice is engaged to Charles’ daughter Vera. Everything seems blissful, but Charles is hiding a terrible secret that he had gambled on the stock market and covered his loss by drawing up bills to the tune of hundreds of thousands in his son-in-law’s name. When Maurice realises what happened, he chooses to spare Vera from finding out the truth and save her father. While Vera unsuspectingly travels to Europe to visit her aunt, he pleads guilty and is imprisoned in the Erie Country Penitentiary. (Stumfilm.dk)

Union That God Blesses

1918 • 45 min • Spain

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.

Una noche de gala en el Colón

1918 • 10 min • Argentina

A version of Bizet's play made with animated puppets satirizing President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

A Heathen Benefit

1918 • 5 min • United States of America

A Katzenjammer Kids cartoon.

Edelsmederij Begeer

1918 • 7 min • Netherlands

Dutch Koninklijke Begeer corporate film showing their processing of precious metals and stones.

Through Scenic Finland

1918 • 15 min • Germany

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

Human Clay

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

A girl reared in luxury is forced by circumstances to adapt herself to poverty.

Go West, Young Man

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Wealthy Easterner Dick Latham, determined to disprove his father Amos' accusation that he is an idler, rides the rails West to the mining town of Twin Bridges. Hugh Godson, the town's corrupt political boss, appoints Dick sheriff, supposing him an easily manipulated tenderfoot. To Godson's dismay, Dick proceeds to clean up Twin Bridges, closing the saloons and gambling dens, and forcing even the most hardened miners to attend church.

Fred's Fictitious Foundling

1918 • 12 min

FRED'S FICTITIOUS FOUNDLING is part of a series of comedies produced and directed by Josh Binney and were made for the Florida Film Corporation at the Klutho Studios in Jacksonville.

The Road to Happiness

1918 • 28 min • Denmark

Peter Niemand, a blacksmith by trade, is prone to drink and has something of a bad reputation with his comrades and his employer alike. One day, the factory owner is finally fed up with the lazy worker, giving him one last chance to change his ways. If not, he will be fired. Seized by a fierce desire for revenge, Niemand decides to burn down the factory. But before he can put his plans into action, he falls asleep, and in his dream he sees himself in the place of his employer. Can these visions help make Peter Niemand a better person? (stumfilm.dk)

The Danger Game

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her story is completely implausible. To prove him wrong, Clytie decides to feign a robbery and enters an apartment through an open window. She is apprehended by a policeman, who mistakes her for local robber "Powder Nose Annie." Gilpin sees her in jail and, posing as crook Jimmy of the Dives, arranges to break her out and take her on a robbing spree. Finally, Jimmy returns her to her parents and then calls at her home as Gilpin, the critic. Clytie is suprised but forgives the deception and agrees to marry him.

The Beloved Impostor

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Dick Mentor's wife is killed in an auto accident while deserting her husband for another man. Soon after, their child dies, which leaves Dick a confirmed woman hater. Betty, an attractive flirt, learns that Dick is coming to visit and bets Hugh, an admirer, a kiss against a horse that she can win the misogynist's love. By masquerading as a charming twelve-year-old, Betty captivates Dick, but in the process, falls in love with him and is afraid to admit the hoax.