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The Princess' Dilemma

1913 • 45 min • Denmark

As King Cyril is away fighting at the front, Prime Minister Bouton holds the reins of power firmly in his stead. For a long time, Bouton has taken to Princess Elena who, on the other hand – and to Bouton’s great displeasure – falls in love with the prisoner of war, Captain Henri de Bersin. The love triangle drama reaches its climax when de Bersin asks the princess for help to escape and is then sentenced to death by Bouton. However, in the end, it’s not he who must lay down his life in this great game of emotions and power. (stumfilm.dk)

Hello, Trouble

1913 • 11 min • United States of America

Hello, Trouble

Breaking Into the Big League

1913 • 19 min

Montjoy Jones, a disgraced baseball player after losing a game due to a dropped flyball, begins to dream of a scenario where he makes the catch, and becomes a hero.

How to Live 100 Years

1913 • 12 min • United States of America

Though the majority of the film may be lost, a fragment of its Kinemacolor footage survives.

Zoe's Magic Umbrella

1913 • 4 min • France

Zoe raises Cain with an enchanted umbrella that she steals from a stage magician. The umbrella can make any object multiply in absurd over-abundance.

Course de taureaux provençale

1913 • 5 min • France

An early Gaumont short

A Modern Cinderella

1913 • 27 min • Italy

Sylvia and Janet lose their mother and are left destitute orphans. Jenny Smart (a leading moving picture actress) takes an interest in the girls and brings them to a studio. Sylvia is employed as a moving picture actress and is cast as the lead in a retelling of "Cinderella". A rare glimpse of filmmaking in Turin’s Ambrosio studio.

Quicksands of Sin

1913 • 26 min • United States of America

It was mother who through false love had sinned. Years later on her deathbed, as the last sacraments were administered, she confesses the folly of her youth. Her husband, a straightforward, conscientious man, had loved the boy as his own. A few days later the priest gives the son a note his mother had left him. The few lines on the first page sting him to the heart, but he does not weaken and his conscience tells him not to turn the leaf of his absolute disaster.

Tooth for a Tooth

1913 • 8 min

A dentist is desperate for patients. His wife has an idea how he might acquire them. She meets some men in the street and takes them to their flat where, just at the right moment, they are caught by her jealous husband. Naturally they pretend that they have come to have their teeth pulled out. Finally all of them conspire against the dentist in front of the house and throw themselves at the poor man.

Arizona

1913 • 45 min • United States of America

An officer in the U.S. Cavalry sacrifices his reputation to save that of the unfaithful wife of his superior officer.

The Little Ones

1913 • 32 min • France

When Pierre Dormain and his wife die in a train disaster, the custody of their children Simon and Dédée is transferred to their uncle Jean de Mareuil. The uncle is persuaded to let his servant’s mother take charge of their care. The money she receives for the care is spent entirely on alcohol and the children have to work hard for their meal. Eventually the children run away from home and roam the streets of Paris. When one of the children is seriously injured after an accident, the uncle finally realizes he has made a grave mistake.

Die schwarze Natter

1913 • 34 min

Two agents from different sides are working in a circus, one - the Schwarze Natter (Black Adder)- as a dancer, the other as a horseback artist. The Schwarze Natter is informed that the other is receiving information by one of the visitors this night, who is also in love her. She is trying to get him and the information herself, making it look like the other side has her finger in this incident. But an officer of the local police had an eye on them, because some things happening before made him suspicious and starts playing his little game.

Dupin Takes his Uncle Out

1913 • 6 min • France

Artheme takes his elderly uncle for a walk in his wheelchair, but abandons the invalid in the woods overnight when he spots a pretty girl. (MoMA)

Oscar at the Bath

1913 • 12 min • France

Oscar is on the trail of a new conquest. This serials played by Léon Lorin and various feminine actors, here Angèle Lérida, is full of comic elegance, parisianism of the Grands Boulevards and a real taste for fine shots.

Figaro's Wedding

1913 • 27 min

This short feature -- about three reels, which was a major production in 1913 -- of Beaumarchais' ribald work, shows most of the strengths and weaknesses of Italian film making in 1913. The technical values are exemplary. The backgrounds are fine, making use of the natural world and excellent sets. The costuming is on a par with that, and the camera-work, although stodgy to the modern eye -- it never moves and the cuts are all leisurely -- are handsomely chosen and get the job done.

Uncle's Namesakes

1913 • 15 min • United States of America

An American family in need of some money decides to pull a little innocent scam on a wealthy English relative.

The Absentee

1913 • 36 min • Netherlands

Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.

Onésime, You'll Get Married... or Else!

1913 • 8 min • France

Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle.

Saved by the Juvenile Court

1913 • 33 min • United States of America

William Desmond Taylor’s feature about an orphan reclaimed through the juvenile court of Judge Ben Lindsey.

All on Account of a Transfer

1913 • 11 min • United States of America

Herr Müller needs to travel across town, but he runs into difficulties because he cannot understand English.

Onésime Loves Animals

1913 • 6 min • France

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hospital for sick animals.

The Pursuit of the Smugglers

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the smugglers. After a wild chase, the smugglers are captured, and it turns out that harbour police agent and the daughter of the export trader get along very well.

The Invisible Foe

1913 • 10 min • United States of America

Mary and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. Stanley, the girl's father, suspects the boy of being a victim of the drug habit. Billy, in an attempt to master his craving, abstains from the drug. He is invited to dinner at his sweetheart's home. Stanley notices the boy's nervousness. He resolves to call upon him at his office and learn the truth. The next day, Billy's desire for the drug becomes so intense that the moment his employees leave the office, he brings out his hypodermic.

The Shadow of Nazareth

1913 • 19 min • United States of America

An extrabiblical tale of Barabbas and Judith Iscariot, the presumed sister of Judas, starring Constance Crawley and Arthur Maude.