All Films

The Great Blizzard in the Baltics in December

1913 • 3 min • Russia

A series of short winter scenes.

Autotocht Door Bandoeng

1913 • 12 min

A “phantom ride” filmed from a car driving through Bandung (Java) and the surroundings, in about 1913.

12th Cavalry Division

1913 • 21 min • Serbia

Several days after the final victory of Serbia over Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War, according to the military report of the 24th July 1913, the cameramen of the producer Djoka Bogdanovic made seven cinematographic pictures of the Serbian Calvary Division, which set up the camp in the vicinity of Presevo. The commander of the Cavalry Division, Prince Arsenije – Arsen Karadjordjevic was filmed along with the camp of the Cavalry Division Artillery, the camp of the I Calvary Brigade, Calvary Division ready to move, concentration and preparation of the division for the attack, onrush of the Calvary Division and practice drills of fighting in combined military units.

Battle of the Black Stone

1913 • 22 min • Serbia

Wishing to record the heroism of the Third Army under the command of General Boza Jankovic and its Morava Division II Line led by Milovan Nedic, the producer Djoka Bogdanovic shot twelve "cinematographic images" with his two cameramen on the teritorry where these armies fought during the 16th July 1913.

Sussex v Kent County Cricket Match

1913 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Large crowds gather for cricket week at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground, as Kent take on Sussex and Nottinghamshire.

Funeral of Second Lieutenant Živojin Marinković

1913 • 5 min • Serbia

The Second Lieutenant Zivojin Marinkovic from the XII Infantry Regiment “Car Lazar“ of the Sumadija Division of I age class in the formation of the III Army, died heroically of the Bulgarian grenade on Zedilovacka ridge on the 6th July 1913 during the battle on Kiselica. His burial on the 7th July 1913 in Kriva Palanka was recorded by the cameramen of the producer Djoka Bogdanovic, who filmed the bringing of the coffin into the church of Saint Demetrius, funeral service and burial on the local cemetery.

Asya The Student

1913 • 30 min • Russia

Die Jagd nach der Hundertpfundnote oder die Reise um die Welt

1913 • 60 min • Germany

A man receives a brand new £100 note from the bank. He gives one of these notes to a friend from the Royal Club. He jokingly says, "You won't be seeing that again any time soon". A wager is born, because Gardefeu bets that he can find the same note again within three months, no matter which way it travels around the world.

Historical Remembrances of Estonia's Past

1913 • 10 min • Estonia

This film will take you to Tartu and Southern Estonia countryside locations like: Vooremäe, Helme, Karksi, Tarvastu, and Härgmäe (Ergeme in Latvian) in Northern Latvia; then on to the towns of Viljandi, Paide, Narva.

Firenze

1913 • 4 min • Italy

Travel film about Florence which includes: the cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore or Duomo) with the tower (Torre di Giotto or Campanile) and the dome (Brunelleschi), Piazza and Palazzo della Signoria.

Nine Fingers

1913 • 31 min • Russia

A husband discovers that his wife has had a lover from the early days of their marriage. He is faced with a painful and agonizing problem: whose are the three girls that he is supposed to have fathered?

Barcelona, Pearl of the Mediterranean

1913 • 6 min

Shows a couple of locations in and around Barcelona, including the Plaça de Catalunya.

Gontran and the Unknown Neighbour

1913 • 8 min

Gontran is too absorbed in his (terrible) piano playing to pay any attention to his wife. She tells him she’s going back to her mother, but instead moves in next door to play a trick on him.

Fred as Decorator

1913 • 8 min • Denmark

A cheerful, lively decorator is given the task of upholstering a chair in a wealthy household. However, his working methods prove somewhat unorthodox, and before long the splendid home needs an entire flock of craftsmen. (stumfilm.dk)

The Treasure of Abdar Rahman

1913 • 20 min • Germany

Abdar Rahman, returning from a raid upon a neighboring tribe, brings with him, Romeika, the daughter of its sheik. She is introduced into his harem but repulses all his advances till messengers from her father brings a ransom by which the freedom of the girl is affected.

Indian and Ceylonsee Types

1913 • 4 min

Short registration of the indigenous population in what was then British India and Ceylon. Life in the Indies. Successively images of children, of the inhabitants of 'Tamoul', of a fortune teller, of 'kandyons', of a group of Indian men who eat the national food 'carry' and of 'Cinghalaise' women.

The Ainus of Japan

1913 • 30 min • United States of America

The Ainus of Japan represent the aborigines of Japan, the oldest existing people of the world, barring the cliff dwellers on the island of Razan of our own continent. They still preserve many of their old traits.

The Spider and the Fly

1913 • 4 min

This short film using animated puppets to show a fly trying to escape a spider is a little masterpiece. The technique is quite surprising, and the fly's tricks reminds quite closely many later animated films.

Shep, the Hero

1913 • 11 min • United States of America

Lass and her six little puppies are lying near the kennel upon the suburban estate of Mr. Jameson, the wealthy New York broker. Mrs. Jameson, his wife, is walking about the estate accompanied by her six months' old baby and its nurse. She stops and speaks kindly to Lass and her little family. Picking up one of the little dogs, she playfully puts it in the carriage with the baby and petting the little animal, returns it to its mother. She continues upon her walk. This same little puppy strays away from its little brothers and sisters and reaching the railroad tracks, it wanders into the next village, where it is met by a crowd of youngsters that are gathered about the station. They playfully abuse the little animal.

Valgelillepäev Tartus

1913 • 1 min • Russia

A report of the White Flower Day held on Tartu Town Hall Square in May 1913. White Flower Day is a charitable action in favour of people who suffer from tuberculosis.

Horsham Cricket Week and Grand Carnival

1913 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Sussex take on Lancashire in the County Championship at Cricket Field Road.

Cheshire Territorials at Abergaveny

1913 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

Wedding of Miss Carrie Alexander

1913 • 4 min • United Kingdom

The mayor's daughter gets hitched in style in the Kent market town.

Frištenský - Šmejkal

1913 • 8 min

The film is depicting a Greco-Roman wrestling match of Gustav Frištenský and Josef Šmejkal, which took place on June 1, 1913 in Letná, Prague.