All Films

A Vermont Romance

1916 • 35 min • United States of America

After the death of her father and the loss of her family farm, Dorothy moves to the city to find work and a new life. The first feature film shot on location in Vermont.

Beyond Life, Beyond Death

1916 • 6 min • Italy

Only a brief fragment survives from the beginning of this film, which seems to be a moving romantic melodrama: Diana Karenne plays the piano surrounded by a group of admirers in evening dress. She is a beautiful and slightly spoiled heiress, the kind of woman for whom Italian silent cinema reserved unfortunate turns of fate in order to elevate her to the status of tragic heroine. Even the few minutes remaining make clear that she proposes her own reinterpretation of the genre’s themes and motifs: from astonished grief over her father’s death to desperate wanderings through dark and impoverished alleyways. It is an expressive palette around which Pasquali weaves his discreet direction, paying particular attention to lighting effects.

New Zealanders Win at Rugby

1916 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Soldiers representing South Africa and New Zealand billeted in London get stuck in during a rugby fixture in Richmond Park.

The Heart Virtuoso

1916 • 33 min • Denmark

The celebrated and vain cellist Karél impresses the royal couple with his virtuoso playing. When the princess invites Karél to go driving with her the following day, he convinces himself that she’s in love with him. He woos her ardently and sends her all the flowers he has received at the theatre. While waiting for a response, he falls asleep and dreams up all sorts of crazy scenarios for the outcome of his courting. Stumfilm.dk

Wonderful Temples of India

1916 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods.

Military Athletic Meeting

1916 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Shots of races at a military athletic meeting.

Horses' New Year's Dinner

1916 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Retired nags enjoy a well-earned New Year's feed at the Cricklewood Home of Rest for Horses.

Rino Wants To Have A Smoke

1916 • 5 min

The disastrous concert in Circus Fjollinski

1916 • 6 min • Sweden

Pelle Jöns is trying to play the guitar for the audience, when the chairs start to live their own life.

Leontarius and the Butcher Boys

1916 • 20 min • Greece

Leontarius was a false warrior who boasted of his fantastic exploits; a false maniac who feared his own shadow. An offshoot of this character is the word "lionism", which is still used today.

The Battle Between Brenta and Adige

1916 • 49 min

A Italian documentary by Luca Comerio.

Charlie's White Elephant

1916 • 6 min • United States of America

A cartoon based on Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp", with Chaplin himself supplying some gags.

It Happened in Honolulu

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual father likes the young American too, but his wife overrides him and the family heads for Honolulu, where the matriarch hopes her daughter will wed the nobleman.

For the Female and the Rooster

1916 • 50 min • Puerto Rico

A laborer and the town's rich buck vie for the love a of a beautiful peasant lady, resulting in homicide. The first film produced in Puerto Rico, it is now considered lost.

Our Homeland's Trenches

1916 • 7 min • Germany

German propaganda film about the importance of buying war bonds.

Wild Power

1916 • 50 min • Russia

The Net

1916 • 58 min • United States of America

In the home of the stalwart young son and his mother, the girl rescued from the sea grows strong again after her fearful exposure. Her attractiveness, so different from that of the fisher maidens, has a telling effect on the young man. He asks her, at length, to become his bride, and she accepts. But a few days before the wedding the affianced bride disappears, sailing away with a strange man from the city, who has suddenly appeared. Thinking that his sweetheart had deserted him for another, the fisherman is heartbroken for a time, but gradually the keen edge of his sorrow wears away, and he succumbs to the attractions of another girl, one who had recently come to the village with her father, and who had lived together and alone at the end of the town.

Guerra Sulle Alpi

1916 • 8 min

The Record Run

1916 • 12 min • United States of America

The story is built around the rivalry of two railroads, and the record run that is to decide the awarding of large mail contracts.

The Straight Way

1916 • 50 min • United States of America

Deserted by her husband, John Madison, because he incorrectly accuses her of having an affair, Mary Madison goes to her aunt's house to have her baby, and then loses her memory in a train wreck. John, however, hears that she has died, so he takes possession of their infant daughter.

Views of Uden

1916 • 13 min • Netherlands

Images from a camp for Belgian refugees in the Brabant town of Uden, Netherlands.

Mr. Sphere, Mr. Spiderlegs and Little Ms. Sewing Needle

1916 • 4 min • Sweden

2 men battle over a woman

Sightless Soldiers' Recreation

1916 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Blind soldiers from St. Dunstan's Hostel row on Regent's Park Lake.

Wrong Floor

1916 • 11 min • Denmark

Mr Vang, a clerk, has just moved into the fourth floor of a block of flats – and he has already gained a reputation as something of a troublemaker. The woman, a professor’s wife, who lives just below his flat has so far only been indirectly acquainted with him in the form of stomping feet and noise lasting into the small hours. She hopes to meet him face to face soon so that she can give him a thorough talking-to – and her wish is about to come true in a quite unexpected way. When the clerk returns home after a boozy night on the town, he mistakenly locks himself into her home, triggering an array of comical situations. (Stumfilm.dk)