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The Ex-Convict's Plunge

1913 • 7 min • United States of America

Elton Gates, having served seven years for submitting to temptation with a bank's funds, is released. His uncle John sends him $500.00, with which to start life anew. He has hardly rested in a cheap lodging house when Detective Doolittle spies him and commences to make him an object of special scrutiny.

The Only Chance

1913 • 10 min • United States of America

Charley West, a lineman, complains about his rickety old hand-car, and is given one that is up-to-date. He tries it out and finds he can send it sixty miles an hour. The train dispatcher, forgetting an oncoming special freight, allows a passenger train to leave the yard before he discovers his mistake.

Frayed Fagin's Adventures

1913 • 4 min • United States of America

Frayed Fagin is attacked by a particularly aggressive bulldog. Before the animal's desire for battle is satisfied, the hobo's clothes are in tatters. A hospital attendant throws some old clothes in the field with the intention of burning them. He has forgotten matches and returns to get some. While the man is gone, Fagin finds the clothes and walks off with them. Later, arrayed in the suit he has found, the hobo peers over a fence and sees a farmer sleeping near some beehives. The hobo accidentally knocks the hives over. The bees emerge and make things hum for the farmer and the hobo.

The Lady and the Mouse

1913 • 17 min • United States of America

The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be that as it may, she could not find it in her to drown the unwelcome visitor to the pantry, so she let it go and the silent little drama witnessed by the tramp greatly impressed him. Not so the strict aunt, she declared the whole thing to be in exact accordance with everything else in the family. Their hearts ran away with their heads. That was why they lost money on credit, could not pay off the mortgage and send the sick sister to a better climate. As for the tramp, they had no business to take him in. He could not pay for his keep. But the tramp surprised them all.

Tragic Error

1913 • 25 min • France

When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.

The Quakeress

1913 • 28 min • United States of America

The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart. The local minister, Rev. Cole, who calls on her at her cabin with flowers, is an unwelcome suitor. In revenge, he has "blue laws" passed, among them is one requiring attendance at church on Sunday. Priscilla refuses to comply with the law and is arrested. After being plunged in and out of water and pilloried, she is banished from the colony. John goes with her. They are attacked by Indians and John is badly wounded. Priscilla manages to get back to the village in time to warn the Puritans of an impending attack. They defeat the Indians after a desperate battle. The Rev. Cole, who has been mortally wounded, begs Priscilla's forgiveness and the Puritans make amends for their harsh treatment of her.

Indian Vampire

1913 • 30 min • Italy

Considered the first spaghetti-western ever. The director Roberto Roberti being the father of Sergio Leone along with member of the cast Bice Valerian, wife of the director and mother of Sergio Leone.

Opening of New Drill Hall at Haltwhistle

1913 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Northumberland army reserve's new home reveals Tardis-like tendencies as the town of Haltwhistle pours inside.

On to Washington

1913 • 1 min • United States of America

This particular film uses real film footage to show a march by women demanding the right to vote. This coincided with the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson and some of the marchers walked all the way from Newark, New Jersey to Washington, DC.

The Village Choir

1913 • 20 min • United States of America

The choir practices and the quartette, driven to desperation by the frequent false notes played by the near-sighted organist, complain. He leaves in a huff. The minister tells them that his daughter will be on hand next Sunday and will play for them. Mary arrives. She is introduced to the quartette who, during the week days, sow seeds and plow. The minister is writing a sermon when the deacon enters and demands the payment of the mortgage on the church. He is insistent, but promises to wait upon meeting Mary, when his heart melts at the sight of her loveliness.

The Yaqui Cur

1913 • 18 min • United States of America

The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and again, the moans of men caught under falling horses struck terror in the boy's heart The incensed warriors cast him from the tribe with the brand of a coward. It was then that his opportunity came to follow the white man's wonderful doctrine. "Big love man lay down life for friend,"

East Lynne

1913 • 45 min • United Kingdom

An aristocratic woman, Lady Isabel, leaves her husband and children when she suspects him of adultery, a notion which had been suggested to her by the scheming and murderous Captain Levison. Life on the continent with Levison does not work out as she had envisaged so, eight years later, she returns to England and finds her husband has remarried. She cannot bear to be away from her family and so dons a disguise, gaining employment with them as a governess. When her young son, Willie, dies she is unable to comfort him as she would like, and she too dies.

Dante e Beatrice

1913 • 44 min

Early biopic of Dante. From the Cineteca Milano collection.

The Jewel Thieves Outwitted

1913 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Police pursue jewel thieves by motor-car and airplane.

Silent Heroes

1913 • 15 min • United States of America

Tom Chatterton is called a coward because he will not enlist in the Home Guard during the Civil War -- his mother is dying and he does not wish to leave while she is still alive. When she dies and the Yankees attack, he seizes command of the Home Guard and leads them to victory, proving himself a hero and dying in the process.

Ilse and Her Three Suitors

1913 • 16 min • Germany

Comedy in which Elza's father wants her to choose high society over her friendship with a painter. Elza Grunner is a model for the painter Bernhard. Her father, however, demands that Elza choose between the Count of Trutwitz and an American. Two befriended actors want to help her, pretend to be the Count of Trutwitz and the American, respectively, and visit Mr. Grunner. Of course, they make sure these visits are a fiasco. When the American wants to kidnap Elza, Bernhard comes to the rescue. Mr. Grunner eventually approves of Bernhard.

L'Intruse

1913 • 37 min • France

A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.

Constantine

1913 • 6 min

Shows locations and people in and around Constantine, Algeria.

The Fatal Taxicab

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.

His Highness, The Prince

1913 • 29 min • Denmark

In the small kingdom of Snobbéria, a rollicking tale of mistaken identity unfolds. A busy journalist called Herbert Prince sets out for a much-needed holiday, and while on the train he is mistaken for Prince Karl Heinrich of Snobbéria. Deciding to have a little fun, Prince stays in character as a royal. Upon arriving in his holiday destination of Waldeck, he is effusively received by the mayor, with whose daughter Prince immediately falls in love. Soon the real prince, Karl Heinrich, reads about the supposedly royal visit and sets off to surprise his doppelganger. (Stumfilm.dk)

Child's Play

1913 • 12 min • France

Cymbeline

1913 • 22 min • United States of America

Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rapidly improving narrative technique and realism well beyond the limitations of the stage. Especially cinematic are the bedchamber scene in the first reel, with its intimate cinematography and acting and special lighting effect, and the battle scene of the second reel, considered very effective in its day.

Mutt and Jeff

1913 • 36 min

Directed by Bud Fisher, a short film adaptation of his popular comic strip co-produced with Pathé.

The Artist's Dreams

1913 • 5 min • United States of America

An animated dachshund fools his live-action creator by eating the sausages he has drawn.