All Films

Fedora

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Fedora, a beautiful and elegant woman of Russian society, travels to Paris in search of her fiance's murderer.

Broadway Love

1918 • 60 min • United States of America

A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.

Painted Lips

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

The daughter of a sea captain, the heroine falls in with a bad crowd and is soon working as a "hostess" (wink! wink!) in a cheap waterfront dive.

Daybreak

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), and finally leaves him. After three years she returns but leaves each evening, returning late arousing the suspicion of her husband. Having her followed he soon learns that she visits a child. Suspecting the worst because of her friendship with Dr. David Brett (Phillips), he institutes divorce proceedings. Edith confesses the truth about the child and Arthur, realizing his folly, swears off liquor and they are reunited.

Real Folks

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Pat Dugan puts his last penny into oil prospecting and finds the oil. He deserts the old shack for his idea of what a palace should be and sends Jimmie to college. Jimmie promptly thrashes three of the students and polishes off the policeman who interferes. Then he leaves college for a partnership in a nursery business with a young Italian. Pat moves east and settles next door to Lady Blessington, but supposes the placid old lady who fraternizes with his wife to be the house- keeper. Jimmy turns up and falls in love with Joyce, Lady Blessington's god-daughter and marries her in spite of his father's commands, but when Pat sees how it all comes out he takes the full credit to himself.

Madame Jealousy

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Charm and Valor fall in love and are married. Jealousy, however, is angry at their happiness and decides to ruin their marriage, so she arranges for Charm to find an old photograph of her husband's former sweetheart Forgotten. Valor is also led to mistrust Charm, and the two return to their respective parents: his, Finance and Display, and hers, Commerce and Pride. While Charm spends her days with Sorrow, Treachery endeavors to ruin Valor by luring him to a disreputable roadhouse, and when Valor's father tries to bring him home, the young man strikes his father with a bottle. The two sets of parents are in the midst of a financial battle when Charm gives birth to a child, Happiness. The child reunites the couple, and Madame Jealousy, along with her servants Mischief, Treachery and Rumor, finally are banished.

Fast Company

1918 • 50 min • United States of America

Lawrence Percival Van Huyler, a society fop, protests against the necessity of living up to his snobbish family's blue-blooded traditions. His fiancée, Alicia Vanderveldt, abandons him for Richard Barnaby, who ridicules the pampered Lawrence and brags of his own daring exploits in foreign countries. While the Van Huyler estate is undergoing renovation, Lawrence uncovers a box containing a confession written by the family's founder, Peter Van Huyler. In it, the patriarch admits that he was actually an Irishman of humble birth who made his fortune engaging in piracy on the high seas. Delighted, Lawrence takes a construction job and adopts a fighting attitude, challenging those who had previously made fun of him.

The United Snakes of America

1917 • 1 min • United States of America

The animating of an early American political cartoon.

A Tea Among the Clouds

1917 • 9 min • Portugal

The first advertising film ever made in Portugal. Aiming to popularize a new brand of biscuits, Caldevilla hired the Puortollanos and had them climb the 75 meters of the Baroque Clérigos Tower. The feat gathered an unprecedented crowd in Porto, 150.000 fevered souls hanging in dread while the two showmen accomplished their half-hour climb. Upon reaching the top, the duo set a table and had some tea with, of course, the new Fábrica Invicta-brand petit beurres. From up top, they then released thousands of leaflets advertising the grandiose biscuits.

A Modern Monte Cristo

1917 • 57 min • United States of America

This adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas story tells of a man, living in the present day, who returns home incognito and wealthy after having been a sailor for years and living on a desert island surrounded by water filled with pearl-oysters. He revenges himself on his enemy, who had unjustly accused him of a crime he did not commit.

Queen's Visit to the East End: Topical Budget 305-2

1917 • 1 min

Queen Mary serves at a soup kitchen in Stepney. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Fire in Thessaloniki

1917 • 10 min • Serbia

Footage of the devastating fire in Thessaloniki that took place in 1917. A Serbian Colonel called Mihailo Mihailović aka Mika Afrika captured the event.

The Magic of Spring

1917 • 7 min • United States of America

A spring idyll released via Edison's short-lived Conquest Pictures sometime in 1917.

The Tenth Battle of the Isonzo

1917 • 25 min • Austria

Documenting the tenth of twelve battles near the Isonzo River bordering Italy and Austria-Hungary. World War One.

A Peaceful Flat

1917 • 15 min • United States of America

Casey takes a beating from apartment tenants Mr. and Mrs. Little, so in revenge, Casey disguises himself as the woman who Mr. Little expects to meet in the park, with Mrs. Casey bringing Mr. Little's wife to observe.

Porjus and Harsprånget

1917 • 14 min • Sweden

Footage from Northern Sweden.

Amsterdam Water Festival and Rowing Competitions

1917 • 9 min • Netherlands

Footage of a water festival on Amsterdams's Amstel River. Both recreational as well as competition rowers take part in the popular festival, which attracts thousands of visitors.

Count Dohna and His Seagull

1917 • 50 min • Germany

The film documents the second voyage of the auxiliary cruiser in the Atlantic.

Sailing

1917 • 6 min • Sweden

Sailing boats

Our Wonderful Wounded

1917 • 1 min • United Kingdom

King George V and Queen Mary visit convalescent soldiers at Bath.

Ukrainian Movement

1917 • 10 min • Russia

One of the few known films shot in 1917 in Ukraine (UPR). The film contains portrait of the head of the General Secretariat - the first government of Ukraine, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the head of the Ukrainian Central Rada, Professor Mykhailo Hrushevsky, with a group of members of the UCR near the Pedagogical Museum in Kyiv, where the Ukrainian Central Rada worked, and a group of delegates to the eighth session of the UCR.

The Spirit of Romance

1917 • 50 min • United States of America

Abby Lou is the niece of the crabbed old antique dealer, Richard Cobb. Old Richard Cobb has a son who possesses all the qualities that his father seemingly was born without. This son, Tom Cobb, loves Abby Lou and is working on his great invention, a kettle that will not boil over. Finances are the only drawback to its successful achievement.

The Trouble Buster

1917 • 50 min • United States of America

Soon after arriving in the U.S., Romanian immigrant Franz Libelt dies, leaving his daughter Michelna an orphan. The girl is befriended by newsboy Blackie Moyle, who invites her to share his home, which is a large piano box in a vacant lot. After he teaches her to be a "newsie," she cuts her hair, dresses as a boy, and changes her name to Mike. When Blackie is blinded while protecting her from a thief, Mike is forced to find a way to support them both

Little Miss Optimist

1917 • 50 min • United States of America

Mazie-Rosie Carden, a waif who pays her board by selling papers on the street, saves the life of starving musician Deal Hendrie by giving him her cherished "lucky dime." Meanwhile, her brother Ben, employed as a weigh-master by the West Coal Company, has been discharged on a trumped-up accusation by the company's manager, Samuel Winter, of falsifying weights.