All Films

The Corso Caffe

1915 • 2 min • Croatia

One of the oldest footages of Zagreb, shows the local caffe "Corso".

Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr

1915 • 37 min

This play is enacted during the stormy days when Robert Emmett tried vainly to free Ireland. Con Daly loves Nora Doyle, who lives with her mother in a little cottage amid the hills and dales of old Erin. In a cave nearby the men who would free Ireland are making arms and ammunition. Robert Emmett visits them, and then goes into the enemy's camp disguised as a flute player, and returns safely. The constabulary visits a family and a riot starts, and as a result Major Kirk is shot. Desperately wounded, he is taken to the home of Mrs. Doyle. Nora and Con nurse him back to health.

Picturesque Scenes on the Principal Waterways

1915 • 2 min

Footage shot from the steam tram, along the Amsterdam - Monnickendam - Volendam line.

The Mystery of a London Flat

1915 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A burglar confesses to killing a woman in this incomplete early crime drama.

By a Strange Road

1915 • 19 min • United States of America

Jim Melcher, a swindler and a rogue, induces Rhoda, a society girl, to marry him. She later discovers his dishonest methods, but her sense of loyalty is so great that she stands by him. He is planning to pull off the biggest robbery of his career and insists that she assist him.

The Destroyer

1915 • 22 min • United States of America

An actress weaves her web, like a disgusting spider, around a susceptible young man, lures him away from his sweetheart, and eventually destroys him.

The Americano

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

Robert Hammond is the manager of the Mexican branch of the Manhattan Oil Company, in Tionana, Mexico, where he lives with his daughter, Elaine. He discharges from the oil works a worthless Mexican named Tonio. Shortly before a new superintendent, in the person of Boyd Norton, is sent from New York to take charge of the oil wells, under the direction of Hammond. Norton meets Hammond's daughter, Elaine. They are mutually attracted and ultimately engaged to be married. Norton is suddenly recalled to New York, and during his absence a group of bandit soldiers, under the leadership of the discharged Tonio make a raid upon Tionana, in the course of which Hammond is slain and Elaine is kidnapped by the bandits.

Фарс с Зимовым — «Русским Поксоном»

1915 • 5 min • Russia

The Ringtailed Rhinoceros

1915 • 48 min • United States of America

John Carter is a good fellow. In fact, his good fellowship is Carter's one great fault, for the highballs and cocktails which go with it too frequently make him forget his more serious obligations and are cause for anxiety on the part of his charming fiancée Marybelle. Marybelle's little brother, Billie asks Carter what is making Marybelle so sad. Carter replies evasively, "It's a Ringtailed Rhinoceros." Billie vows to kill the rhino. When Carter fails to appear on time at a dinner which was planned to announce his engagement to Marybelle, and finally arrives intoxicated, her parents in anger force her to break the engagement and forbid Carter the house. Marybelle's rejection of Carter hits him hard.

Parcels for the Front

1915 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Tommy's Christmas parcels are despatched to the Front in a fleet of trucks.

Toil and Tyranny

1915 • 35 min

In this film, the rich are either "spoiled" or have "calloused hearts" and consort with evil lawyers and have servants dressed almost like they should be at Versailles. They overwork and underpay the workers and are just bad. In contrast, the working class folks are good and loving.

Simon Judit

1915 • 39 min • Hungary

Judit kills her first child because the father left them. She returns to a previous suitor, Simon. Each year their child dies. The rabbi says this happens because she killed her first child and forbids her to kiss her baby till it gets married.

Jane's Declaration of Independence

1915 • 20 min

Emphasizing themes of female independence and the esteem due to the men serving in the armed forces, the plot involves a strong-willed young woman (Agnes Vernon) who defies her father in order to marry a soldier (Hobart Henly) instead of the well-to-do suitor preferred by her father. JANE offers glimpses of soldiers on parade at the then-newly built Fort Winfield Scott and other rare views of the Presidio from a century ago

The Gallantry of Jimmy Rodgers

1915 • 11 min • United States of America

A young man's sweetheart calls upon him to retrieve some incriminating love letters, but it all turns out to be a joke.

The Clutch of Circumstance

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

Eli Turner, an unscrupulous lawyer, is defeated in court by Frank Morrison, a young attorney. Frank also has had the temerity to get in Turner's path over a girl. Now Turner plots to send Morrison to prison, but Nance, a mountain girl, who admires Frank, warns him of his danger.

Here Comes The Postal Troyka...

1915 • 10 min • Russia

Dutch Types

1915 • 4 min • France

An overview of women in Holland and the surrounding countryside.

Cartoons On Tour

1915 • 11 min

A father and daughter each enjoy their printed "Grouch Chaser" cartoons, which come to life for the audience. Meanwhile, the daughter is secretly planning to elope.

Bout-de-Zan et l'embusqué

1915 • 8 min • France

For the Wounded

1915 • 1 min • United Kingdom

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

Pour le pays

1915 • 48 min

Short World War I film.

The Battle and Fall of Przemysl

1915 • 15 min • United States of America

The story of the battle for the Polish city of Przmysl during the 1918-19 Polish-Ukrainian War, between Ukrainian irregulars and a force of Polish troops, militia and civilian volunteers, which resulted in a victory by Polish forces, who drove the Ukrainians out of the city.

The Heart of a Coster

1915 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Coster promises dying mother to care for his brother.

John T. Rocks and the Flivver

1915 • 14 min • United States of America

The advantage of having the endorsement of a prominent and wealthy citizen was thoroughly appreciated by the "Flivver" manufacturers, but try as they could, they were unable to accomplish it. John T. Rocks, the richest man in the world, had been approached by clever representatives of the motor car company, but he declared that he never had ridden in an automobile and never would. The Flivver Company had a rule providing for the prompt discharge of any of their employees who married if their salaries were under $1,000 a year, so when the young clerk who was earning only $800 was married, he was told that his services were no longer required.