All Films

Il bacio di Comerio

1914 • 1 min • Italy

Kiss between cameraman Luca Comerio and his wife. It is one of the very first films in which Kinemacolor technology, a pioneering system of mechanical coloring of cinematographic film, is experimented.

Amsterdam in and Around the Ports

1914 • 34 min

We see images of shipbuilding, of the shipping traffic on the IJ and the Amstel, and the transfer and storage of goods.

Christmas at the Front

1914 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

Little Chesterford - Village Fire

1914 • 1 min • United Kingdom

There's an enchanting folkloric quality to this eclair newsreel showing a remote Essex village ravaged by fire.

The Wonders of Hindustan

1914 • 7 min

Scenes from India (Hindoustan), including the Taj Mahal, the Ganges, a Tamil dancer, and views of India, Calcutta, Delhi and Benares.

Types de macédoniens

1914 • 7 min

Old and rare colour-tinted images of Greece, cityscapes and scenes from daily life, Albanian weddings and Orthodox funerals.

Max's Double

1914 • 13 min • Russia

His Guilty Conscience

1914 • 37 min • Denmark

The young clerk Poul Wang is squandering his fortune on festive pleasures while being shadowed by a mysterious unknown figure. The following day, payment is due and Poul has to clandestinely visit a local loan shark. The growing interest rates tempt Poul to steal from his workplace, but he is discovered by a watchful colleague. In desperation, he robs his own family’s savings, narrowly avoiding being fatally shot by his own wife, who mistakes him for a common burglar. Just as everything looks impossibly bleak, the mysterious stranger comes to the rescue. (Stumfilm.dk)

Hesanut Builds a Skyscraper

1914 • 2 min

A very strange-looking piece of animation from before the triumph of the Bray model of cartooning, this 1914 cartoon, to the modern eye, looks like quarter animation (in which only about a fourth of the movements are covered) and scratchboard work. Hesanut, the star of perhaps half a dozen cartoons from this period, is a top-hatted fellow who builds a skyscraper by placing the girders in place and then using a sort of brick cannon to put up the facade.

Polycarpe Wants to Make a Hit

1914 • 4 min • France

The homeless Polycarpe steals a rifle from some careless society sportsmen and goes on a mindless shooting spree. (MoMA)

Calatayud in Celebration

1914 • 2 min

Calatayud festive celebration. Authorities and priests marching in a procession followed by a host of public. Taking a chocolate. It could be the Feast of San Roque.

Nel paese dell'oro

1914 • 26 min

Early spaghetti western.

The Secret Castle

1914 • 54 min • Germany

When a banker is threatened by extortionists, and his son is kidnapped, woman detective miss Clever goes undercover.

And Very Nice Too

1914 • 9 min • United Kingdom

A saucy silent comedy. Whilst a clergyman pops out to post a letter, a rain-drenched chorus girl breaks into his room to dry her clothes. She's very comfortable and shows it by dancing and putting on the vicar's pyjamas. However, the vicar's friends are horrified when they spy on him flirting with the young girl.

La vita negli abissi del mare: Molluschi

1914 • 8 min

Italian sea creature documentary.

Blumenkorso 1914

1914 • 3 min • Germany

Flower Parade on June 21, 1914, in Trier.

Funeral of the Russian Emissary to the Tsar, ambassador Nicholas Hartwig

1914 • 13 min • Serbia

Ambassador of the Russian Empire in Belgrade, Nicholas Hartwig (1857-1914), also known as an ardent Pan-Slavist and friend of Serbia, passed away unexpectedly in the Austro-Hungarian embassy, during his visit to the ambassador Baron Giesl von Gieslingen on the 27th June 1914. Over a hundred thousand citizens of Belgrade and Serbia attended his funeral on the 1st July 1914. Foreign diplomats exiting the building of the Russian mission can be seen in the film along with exiting of the Serbian Metropolitan Dimitrije and bishops from Niš and Šabac, as well as carrying of the casket with the deceased body out of the embassy building by the officers and clerks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by the President of the Serbian government and Hartwig's close friend Nikola Pašić.

Down with the German Yoke

1914 • 10 min • Russia

In The Whirlpool Of Moscow

1914 • 23 min • Russia

Biography of a village boy who got into the city. Having settled down as a sex worker in a tavern, the hero falls in love with a dressmaker - and leaves her as soon as she becomes a mother. Then he meets with the owner of the tavern, robs her and after a series of revels goes to prison. Meanwhile, a woman abandoned by him decides to commit suicide. She is saved from death by a switchman, who soon marries her. Here, after a few years, the hero who returned from hard labor ends up and, for the sake of the happiness of his own daughter, decides to leave the owners of this quiet monastery alone.

Tigerstedt's early film sound experiment

1914 • 3 min • Finland

The inventor experimented with different sound film methods and apparently screened the world’s first usable sound films in Berlin in 1914 and Copenhagen in 1915. Some of these synchronized sound-on-film images survive.

The Tenacity of Polycarp

1914 • 6 min • France

Polycarpe -- that's Charles Servaes -- encounters a painter in a museum. He strikes a funny pose and the painter decides he wants to paint that picture. However a succession of obstacles get in their way.

Zum Attentat gegen das österreichische Thronfolgerpaar

1914 • 3 min

Pathé-Journal newsreel on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on the 28th of June 1914. Shown are the Franz Joseph street in Sarajevo where the assassination took place. In Triest, Austria the arrival of the battle ship "Viribus Unitis" which carried the bodies. In Berlin, Germany the funeral service at the St. Hedwig's Cathedral.

Die Kinder des Majors

1914 • 32 min • Germany

The voice of their race

1914 • 10 min • Mexico

Lost film critical of the poor treatment that Maya peons received on the haciendas.