All Films

Peeping Pete

1913 • 7 min • United States of America

This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).

The Prisoner of Zenda

1913 • 55 min • United States of America

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

The Evidence of the Film

1913 • 15 min • United States of America

A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's accuser has the police convinced, until...

The Ambassador's Daughter

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

Officer Henderson

1913 • 14 min

Two policemen are required to dress as women to catch pickpockets.

Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship

1913 • 11 min • United States of America

Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan also loves Alixe, and urges her to give up her associations with Shaw. She does so and is very happy until Arlington becomes more absorbed in his business affairs.

Some Nerve

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.

The Little House in Kolomna

1913 • 31 min • Russia

Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards's officers who pass by her window, and she has one particular favourite. One day, Parasha's mother asks her to hire a cook, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Parasha and her beau soon see a way to use this situation to their own advantage.

Das rosa Pantöffelchen

1913 • 27 min • Germany

Directed by Franz Hofer.

Jack's Joke

1913 • 6 min • United States of America

A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of the Edison Kinetophone Collection. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.

The Burning Mill

1913 • 50 min • Netherlands

Annie falls in love with a circus clown, but her circus-hating father forbids their romance. Until a fire breaks out...

Mabel's New Hero

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.

The Island of the Blessed

1913 • 60 min • Germany

Max Reinhardt’s second and last silent film. It tells the story of two young girls (Cheerful & Shy) who, in order to escape their father’s authority, reaches an island of wonder filled with gods, nymphs, fauns and other creatures.

A Lady and Her Maid

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets very indignant when it is compared with the photo of his sweetheart. Miss Ophelia goes up to her room in tears and tells her faithful maid, Belinda, that her heart is broken. Belinda goes down and forcibly tells Billy what she thinks of him. Miss Ophelia resolves on suicide, because no one seems to love her. Belinda gets back in time to prevent this and, to divert her mistress, she suggests that they go together to a beauty specialist. Arriving there, both receive attention. Miss Ophelia gets a new complexion, while Belinda gets new teeth. Both invest in new gowns and dresses and the transformation is complete. At supper time, the boarders are all astounded.

The Awakening

1913 • 43 min • Denmark

The young artist Simon Durand happens to find himself in an idyllic village. Here he finds board and lodging with Marietta, who lives alone with her sick mother, and soon Durand has won the heart of his young hostess. Their happy state is threatened by the wealthy farmer Jerome, who has been courting Marietta in vain for a long time and is not about to abandon his hopes of eventually marrying her. He tattles on the couple to Marietta’s mother, who immediately suffers a heart attack and dies at the mere thought of a poor painter as her son-in-law. When Durand is simultaneously called away to the big city, Marietta’s mind is greatly clouded. (Stumfilm.dk)

The Powder Flash of Death

1913 • 10 min • United States of America

Three pals, Reid, Neilan and Kirkland breast the breakers of their roving life with but one condition of creed, nothing was to come between them to sever or impair the sincerity of their ties of friendship. Regardless of what extremity of life they encountered, they religiously respect their one law of sharing alike; that is, until the fall of Sumter, when the call to arms invaded homes and divided brother against brother.

How Fatty Made Good

1913 • 13 min

Hughey Mack comedy produced by Vitagraph.

Broncho Billy's Strategy

1913 • 11 min • United States of America

Juan, a greaser, tries to influence Tom Morgan to steal some money from his wife. Juan finally persuades Morgan. The money Morgan gambles and loses. A week later, Juan discovers the express agent placing two bags of gold in the safe. Juan induces Morgan to help him rob the office.

Carmen

1913 • 30 min • United States of America

A 1913 short directed by Stanner E.V Taylor and starring Marion Leonard.

Broncho Billy's Capture

1913 • 10 min • United States of America

Juan Yukas, a greaser, schemes with his sweetheart, Evelyn, to hold up the stage and rob the driver of the express box. Broncho Billy is infatuated with Evelyn, The coach is held up. Broncho Billy captures Juan and takes him to Evelyn's shack, to get a drink of water. Evelyn betrays herself. Although he loves her, his duty compels Broncho Billy to take Evelyn prisoner.

The Pitfall

1913 • 20 min • United States of America

Pretty country girl Hazel Dorn sings in her church choir when she sees a newspaper advertisement for chorus girls placed by theatrical manager John Hern. Despite her mother's pleas, she leaves home for the city. Hern has personal reasons for hiring the young girl and intends to lure her to her ruin. However, another, older girl, Fannie Rice, who has already been a victim of Hern, contrives to save Hazel.

Day by Day

1913 • 11 min • United States of America

Day by Day film

Matrimony's Speed Limit

1913 • 14 min • United States of America

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

A Fishy Affair

1913 • 6 min • United States of America

A man goes fishing in the same pond where a burglar has thrown a sock of money stolen from the man's house.