All Films

Un nuage

1913 • 11 min • France

Léonce and Suzanne are having a very sweet supper together. But then Leonce refuses to give her a puff on his cigarette. She snatches it and blows smoke in his face; They quarrel. Leonce regrets it, but he is locked out of the boudoir. Only when a mouse gets into her bed, terrifying Suzanne, is there any hope of reconciliation.

Uncle Pud On A Date

1913 • 3 min • Russia

The Sheriff of Stone Gulch

1913 • 13 min • United States of America

In this rare, surviving one-reel Western from the pioneering Kalem company, Ruth Roland's fiancé, Dick, is falsely accused of robbing a bank, a dirty deed actually committed by one Black McCarty. Roland helps Dick escape and later supplies him with a weapon, but her irate father, the sheriff, must be put out of action -- by his own handcuffs as it turns out -- before the villain can be captured and peace restored.

Under the Wing of the Mill

1913 • 30 min

Young engineer Jameson quickly demonstrates his worth at his new workplace. Chief engineer Hooper is more interested in drinking whisky and chasing women than in making accurate calculations for the construction plans. Jameson quickly corrects this sloppiness, and his enthusiasm impresses both the foreman’s daughter Kitty and the manager, who promotes Jameson to chief engineer. Humiliated, Hooper plans his revenge! He manages to steal the employees’ wages and implicate Kitty. Once again Jameson must show what he’s capable of. (Stumfilm.dk)

Il sire di Vincigliata

1913 • 10 min • Italy

In order to bring an end to the prolonged conflict between them, the Lord of San Miniato proposes to the Lord of Vincigliata the union of their children, Jacopo and Beatrice, in marriage.

The Derby

1913 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A momentous act of self sacrifice is caught on camera - Emily Davison is trampled by the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby.

Drama on the Volga

1913 • 43 min • Russia

The heroine loves her father's young steward. The appearance of her father, attempting to match her with a rich old man, makes her hide her lover under the featherbed, where he suffocates; An unwitting, almost anecdotal murder-- understandable familial insubordination turned deadly. Having found the corpse, mother and daughter in fear call the janitor, who hides the body in a barrel and throws it into the Volga river. The 'kindly' janitor, however, begins to blackmail the troubled women.

Hopi Indians Dance for Theodore Roosevelt at [Walpi, Ariz.] 1913

1913 • 4 min • United States of America

On August 20, 1913, TR, numerous visitors, and Hopi Indians observe the performance of the ritual Hopi snake-dance at Walpi, Arizona, on the Hopi Reservation.

The Wreck of the Veronese

1913 • 6 min • Portugal

Footage showing the shipwreck Veronese.

Pumps

1913 • 9 min • United States of America

A short romantic comedy about a woman and a man who both have shoes that are too small, and who meet as they are taking off their shoes; a pair of wedding slippers is the result.

The Black Circle

1913 • 38 min • Italy

The Black Circle is a Italian film from the Celio Film company.

The Spoiled Darling's Doll

1913 • 16 min

Her parents said she was a darling. The long-suffering servants thought otherwise. From the time that she could first crawl and talk she had had her own way. Her nurse did not like her. The little girl never obeyed, but always argued and protested. She smashed her toys and tore her clothes, and screamed so her sick mother took a turn for the worse. Her parents, however, were satisfied she would outgrow her unpleasant habits, and sure enough she did. One evening the nurse rushed into her room, attracted by the cries of the child. She had tumbled out of bed, but strange to say was not peevish. She apologized to the nurse for causing any trouble and altogether was so sweet that the nurse was convinced the child was seriously ill. Her father questioned her and the little one told him of the remarkable conduct of her newest and biggest doll.

Bulgarian POWs in Belgrade

1913 • 4 min • Serbia

The first captured Bulgarian soldiers during the fight with the Serbs in the Second Balkan War were transported by train to Belgrade on 21st June 1913. In the following months, several thousand Bulgarian officers and soldiers were accommodated at Kalemegdan Fortress until the liberation.

Excelsior!

1913 • 17 min

Short film by Luca Comerio.

Ammunition Column of the Danube Division

1913 • 5 min • Serbia

The Second Balkan War. At the beginning of the battle of Bregalnica, the Danube Division of I age class under leadership of Colonel Pavle Jurisic Sturm was located in the direction of Krivorecka on the positions of Car summit – Kalin kamen (Kalin stone) – Sveta voda (Holy water), with the mission to secure the left side of the I Army, which was supposed to lead the offensive. According to the military report written in Konopnici on the 11th July 1913, the cameramen of the producer Djoka Bogdanovic filmed the ammunition column of the Danube Division of I age class during ammunition placement on the position of Car summit. On this occasion, Komora oxen were filmed while grazing near the military camp, as well as harnessing them in Komora cart and headway of the ammunition column towards the position of Car summit.

Gramberg's Military Hospital

1913 • 7 min • Serbia

During the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, military hospitals for wounded soldiers were opened in all bigger towns in Serbia. Most hospitals were in Belgrade where several thousand wounded soldiers were treated. The last XXXIV emergency hospital was located in a onetime tavern Smutnikovac at the Topcider hill. The owner of the private hospital was the industrialist, banker and philanthropist Djordje Vajfert and it was run by his nephew, the lawyer and industrialist Ferdinand Gramberg.

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander, Commandant of the I Army at Black Peak

1913 • 30 min • Serbia

After the Serbian army defeated the Bulgarian army in the battle of Bregalnica at the end of June 1913, the HQ of the First Army under the leadership of Prince Crown Alexander set up the camp on the Black Peak near Kratovo.

Argentinian Actualities

1913 • 10 min • Argentina

The Habits of Field Spiders

1913 • 8 min • France

Since the days of earliest mythology the spider and his web have been a favorite figure of speech. Here we see interesting specimens of these spiders, which inhabit all quarters of the world and grow to their largest size in the tropics. The arachnidium, wherewith they spin the barely visible silky threads which are used for their webs, have been closely studied by inventors and utilized in their models for reproducing this function mechanically. The delicate webs which these gossamer threads form are at once the spider's home and his means of catching his prey. Commercially, they have been used as cross-lines in telescopes, and even utilized for textile fabrics; but in the latter instance, only as curious. The male spider is larger than the female, whose eggs are numerous and usually enveloped in a cocoon. Although the spider's bite is fatal to other insects, it does not affect mankind.

The Find of Polycarp

1913 • 6 min • France

Charles Servaes finds a coin on the ground and takes possession. When he tries to use it to pay for his cab ride, the cabbie says it's counterfeit. Sorry! I've nothing else, being a comic slapstick bum, indicates Servaes, and goes on his way to not pay a succession of people.

Polycarpe en villégiature

1913 • 8 min • France

Charles Servaes decides it's time to get out of the city, so he ties an abandoned bath tub to a truck and lets it tow him to the seaside. Once there, he spends his time talking to the camera with a self-satisfied smirk and annoying the people around him until the police carry him and his bath tub to the pokey.

Monsieur Pyp als Champignonzüchter

1913 • 17 min • Germany

Monsieur Pyp leads a lavish life, without having the money to do so. When his well-to-do uncle suggests helping him financially with his business plans, Pyp is eager to take the chance: He makes his uncle believe that he has started to run a mushroom farm.

Cunégonde, Practitioner of Spiritism

1913 • 7 min • France

Cunegonde reads a piece about spiritism in the newspaper and wants try it. This is seen by the street kids who decide to help Cunegonde a hand. Cunegonde goes to Professor Geestkijker to learn the tricks and in the meantime the children slip into her house, where they hide everywhere. They give Cunegonde such a fright that she quickly provides the spirits with sweets.

Amsterdam, News Topics

1913 • 11 min • Netherlands

Compilation of newsreel items: Launch of SS 'Prins der Nederlanden'; Competition of lorries; Queen Wilhelmina and prince Hendrik visit an exhibition of church art; A carriage accident on the Amsterdam Singel (8 februari 1913); Suffragettes' march in Amsterdam; Queen Wilhelmina and princess Juliana go ice skating; Arrival of health officer dr. L. van de Steen van Ommeren who has been working for the Red Cross in Constantinopel; Fire in the Spalteholz en Ameschot factory, Achterweg 2; Prins Hendrik visits the exhibition in Ghent.