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When Soul Meets Soul

When Soul Meets Soul

1913 • 11 min • United States of America
An archeologist discovers an ancient parchment inside a mummy case, and realizes that he is the reincarnation of the lover of an Egyptian princess who took her own life many centuries earlier.
Mixed Identities

Mixed Identities

1913 • 10 min
Edna and Alice, the twins, get positions as stenographers in the offices of Mr. Redman and Mr. Carter. Redman is short and fussy, Carter, stout and nervous. They happen to be friends, and exchange phone confidences about their new stenographers. Both flirt with the girls. Redman invites Alice to dinner and gives this as a reason in refusing Carter's invitation to the Club. Carter, not to be outdone, dispatches a note to Edna who has gone home, asking her to meet him at Stanley's restaurant. While he waits, Redman enters the restaurant with Alice. Carter, believing her to be Edna, follows, but they have disappeared into a private dining room. Edna arrives and is perplexed at not finding Carter. She enters and meets him in the hallway, to be accused of having just entered with another man. She denies it. They get a dining room where they enjoy an excellent meal. Alice leaves Redman to phone her mother. Carter leaves Edna to get a cigar.
Colonel Heeza Liar In Africa

Colonel Heeza Liar In Africa

1913 • 6 min • United States of America
Colonel Heeza Liar goes to Africa hoping to outdo Teddy Roosevelt; there he encounters various jungle animals.
Max as a Musician

Max as a Musician

1913 • 12 min
Max loves a charming girl to distraction, but her father declares that his daughter shall never marry anyone but a musician. Max tries his hand at all kinds of instruments, only to fail lamentably. Eventually, he bluffs the professor by using a mechanical instrument, only to have his clever trick discovered on the evening of his betrothal.
The Ferrets

The Ferrets

1913 • 15 min
A crime film in which a detective goes after a gang of counterfeiters.
Granny's Old Armchair

Granny's Old Armchair

1913 • 8 min • United States of America
Granny Willard, seeing the end of her days approaching, begs to leave her bed and sit in her old armchair, the bumble throne about which three generations have assembled. Her favorite grandson, Tom Willard, has come in from the farm with his buxom wife to visit. So the strong arms of youth carry old age gently to the armchair in the sunlit room for a last meeting with all her kith and kin. There came the rural types known to that modest old cottage, and then that more sacred circle of grandsons with their wives and little ones.
The Scimitar of the Prophet

The Scimitar of the Prophet

1913 • 18 min • United States of America
While touring Egypt, Harris and his wife visit an old temple and are fascinated by a sacred scimitar, which, at the corner of a shrine, is religiously guarded by Hadjji, a Mohammedan priest. The wife is a curio fiend, and demands that Harris secure the scimitar, but the husband, having read in his guidebook that the scimitar was supposedly presented to the prophet in a vision and that the vengeance of Allah will follow whosoever disturbs it, begs her to abandon the foolish idea. She insists. That night Harris enters the temple with a rope ladder, steals the scimitar and escapes.
Preservation of the Sign Language

Preservation of the Sign Language

1913 • 14 min • United States of America
George Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak. The film is presented in American Sign Language and has no sub- or intertitles.
Der Andere

Der Andere

1913 • 48 min • Germany
A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
The Message of the Palms

The Message of the Palms

1913 • 10 min • United States of America
Henry Strong, a young civil engineer, is placed in charge of a party which makes a preliminary survey for a railroad. In their work they enter the property of Colonel Carlton who objects decidedly to the invasion of his ancestral land. Henry secures the aid of the sheriff, who convinces Carlton that the young engineer is acting within his rights but the Colonel develops a spirit of animosity toward the surveyor.
Hurra! Einquartierung!

Hurra! Einquartierung!

1913 • 23 min • Germany
A company of soldiers is visiting a small village. The mayor (?) locks away his daughter because she is very adventurous...
The Jew's Christmas

The Jew's Christmas

1913 • 30 min • United States of America
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Leah and Sam are not so strict as their parents and the old customs pall about their more American spirits. Sam is employed in a cloak house and secretly loves his employer's daughter, but she refuses to recognize him. Leah is loved by the handsome gentile floorwalker, and despite her father's objections, she marries him. Isaac orders Leah from the house. Later, the daughter of the cloak manufacturer marries an admirer and Sam is invited to the wedding. He drinks and disgraces himself, and returning home, is turned out by the heartbroken rabbi. He leaves, telling the old man that he will return when the father celebrated the Christian Christmas.
Max Toreador

Max Toreador

1913 • 13 min
Max Linder finds himself obsessed with bull fighting. This seems to echo the nature of the actual man, who is reported to have mastered most of the skills that his character attempts within a rapid amount of time; when you see Max challenging a bull or several towards the end of the film, you can be quite confident that it is the real Linder triumphing out on the arena.
A Woman's Honour

A Woman's Honour

1913 • 35 min • Denmark
Marie, the daughter of a pastor, and major Trolle are young and in love, and they seem destined to become engaged. Everything is coming up roses when a serpent enters this Paradise. Trolle’s close friend, Hoffmann, begins making passes at Marie, and even in the face of consistent rejections he remains tireless in his pursuit. When he assaults Marie one evening, Trolle surprises them and mistakenly thinks they are having an affair. Marie is deeply hurt by Trolle’s distrust of her, so she leaves him quietly and finds employment at the Scala Theatre. When she is to perform some time later, Hoffmann is present – as is Trolle, who has realised his mistake. When she receives an ingratiating message from Hoffmann, she makes an impulsive and fateful decision. Stumfilm.dk
The Boomerang

The Boomerang

1913 • 33 min • United States of America
Virginia Chester visits her Aunt Betty who resides near an army post. Lieut. Calhoun falls in love with Virginia, and after a whirlwind courtship persuades her to marry him secretly. Helen Brassey, the daughter of the Colonel, is in love with Calhoun, and gets her father to help her win the lieutenant's affections.
The Struggle

The Struggle

1913 • 24 min • United States of America
In The Struggle (Broncho, 1913) a prospector and his son Bob depart from home in the morning, while the wife, at home, offers food to a passing stranger. His shifting eyes reveal his nature; he assaults her, and although her husband and son return in time to save her, the father is killed in the ensuing fight. The stranger gets away, but five years later Bob, now a government scout, recognizes the stranger just as he is accused of cheating at cards.
Lieutenant Lilly and the Splodge of Opium

Lieutenant Lilly and the Splodge of Opium

1913 • 11 min
'The intrepid Lt Lilly is called upon to quell a Chinese Boxer rebellion in a spoof adventure serial.' (British Film Institute)
Robin Hood

Robin Hood

1913 • 31 min • United States of America
Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Kitty's Knight

Kitty's Knight

1913 • 11 min • United States of America
"Pudge" Malone, an artist's model, is in love with Kitty Casey, but Mike McMann is fast making his way into the crevices of Kitty's heart.
Sheridan's Ride

Sheridan's Ride

1913 • 30 min • United States of America
A re-enactment of Gen. Sheridan's ride from Winchester Cedar Creek to rally retreating Union soldiers and defeat Gen. Early. A love story involving the general is also told.
Sorrows of Sarah

Sorrows of Sarah

1913 • 20 min • Russia
This film captures a stage production at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, accompanied by the choir of Moscow Synagogue. Brothers Isaak and Borukh are both in love with Sarra, but Sarra chooses Isaac and they got married. However, Sarra could not conceive for ten years, and their Rabbi tells them that according to Jewish law, they must divorce. Isaak's parents push him to sign the divorce paper, then their Rabbi drops the divorce paper to Sarra's feet. She tells Isaac about her grief, and Isaak commits suicide. Soon after-wards, Sore realizes that she is pregnant, but she is now single.
Fire Engine of 1788

Fire Engine of 1788

1913 • 1 min • United Kingdom
All hands to the pump! This demonstration of a 125 year old fire engine shows it can still be useful when the need arises.
Her Way

Her Way

1913 • 11 min • United States of America
A good mother, dying, bequeaths to her daughter a well-worn Bible, beseeching her to follow its teachings day by day. Her father, a brutal inebriate, comes home and finds her reading the old book, snatches it from her, stamps upon it, and falls to the floor in a drunken fury.
Indian Summer

Indian Summer

1913 • 12 min • United States of America
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.