All Films

La nostra artigliera in guerra

1912 • 6 min

Documentary dedicated to the artillery supplied to the Italian troops in Africa.

Navigazione sul nilo (anni dieci)

1912 • 7 min

A documentary film shot during a navigation of the Nile river and in the surrounding woods.

Ein neuer Apparat zur Verhütung von Kinobränden

1912 • 3 min • Germany

Demonstration of fire extinguisher that reduces the danger of a burning film. After ten seconds, the fire in a film roll is extinguished by the device. The film can be reused by unrolling and drying. Public and projectionists are no longer at risk.

Some Japanese Temples

1912 • 5 min • France

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

Patouillard's Wife Wants to Follow the Latest Fashions

1912 • 6 min • France

The wife of Patouillard begs him for new clothes according to the latest fashion in the newspapers. So they go out for some shopping. Afterwards she is going out in her new dress, which is so tight that she can hardly walk in it. She changes the skirt for a pair of trousers, but finds herself being laughed at, and when the trousers get wet at the seaside, Patouillard finally puts her in a jute bag and makes her hop back home.

Breeding of Bresse Chickens in Cousance

1912 • 6 min

About poultry: from rearing in 'model farms' to packaging. The film contains footage of a model farm (in Jura), fattening of the poultry and offering it for sale at the local market, and preparation activities including plucking, tying up wings and legs and packaging.

No More Bald Men

1912 • 2 min

A 1912 remake of a 1904 movie for the Pathé KOK 28mm film format, "No More Bald Men" presents a bald men who seems to have found a solution to his problem of baldness.

A Road Agent's Love

1912 • 15 min • United States of America

John Mackley is in the hands of a money-lender, and a broken leg prevents him from meeting a note when due. He succeeds in putting off the payment until a future date, in the hope that better times will come in the interim. His wife and daughter, Lucy, comprise his family. Lucy, just budding into womanhood, has formed an attachment for a young man, who had rendered herself and mother a little service one day. They have met several times and love has become mutual. She knows nothing of his avocation or his past, only that he is living in the neighborhood.

Marie is Too Obedient

1912 • 7 min • France

French comedy short

Zaporozhian Sich

1912 • 50 min • Russia

The first Ukrainian feature film. Considered lost.

Love's Stratagems

1912 • 9 min • Sweden

One of two carnival films recorded in 1912 by Frans Lundberg's company on behalf of the Lunda students' carnival committee.

Istanbul and the Golden Horn

1912 • 4 min • France

Compilation of footage about daily life in the Ottoman Empire and various sights in the capital Istanbul. Shots include an outdoor barber shop, port ‘The Golden Horn’ and sailing ships on the Bosphorus.

With Dagger and Poison or The Curse of Gold

1912 • 9 min • Sweden

Count von Löwenstein shows Marquis Al Fresco his will, where he bequeaths 1 billion to his daughter Donna Elvira, if she marries the Marquis. The evil Marquis visits Saïd Ali Mohammed, Doctor of Toxicology, where he buys a bottle of poison. When the Count and the Marquis walk through a wood, two robbers kill them. The robbers find the bottle, drink the poison and die.

Campaña electoral y funeral de Benito Juárez Maza

1912 • 6 min • Mexico

Summer Memories from Västerbotten 1912

1912 • 11 min • Sweden

Documentary of the Swedish province of Westrobothnia.

Sorrento

1912 • 4 min

Early travelogue.

Manfredonia

1912 • 2 min

Early travelogue.

Salti e laghi del fiume Velino

1912 • 3 min

Early travelogue.

The Farmer's Daughter

1912 • 15 min • Denmark

Anna, the daughter of an elderly farmer, and the farmhand Hans are in love and dream of a future together. However, Anna’s younger brother witnesses one of their secret meetings and tattles to their father, who immediately breaks up the rendezvous and dismisses Hans. The farmer has other plans: he intends to rid himself of debt by marrying Anna off to a wealthy local farmer. Hans and Anna part ways with heavy hearts, vowing eternal fidelity. Hans leaves for America, while Anna stubbornly rejects the rich farmer’s persistent advances. One day, good news arrives from Hans, and the young couple face a bright future together. (Stumfilm.dk)

La Città di Rimini

1912 • 4 min

Early travelogue.

Glasgow and the Clyde Coast

1912 • 11 min

Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay.

Het schoonste uit de natuur

1912 • 3 min • France

Gaumont short rediscovered and restored in 2001. Held at the EYE Filmmuseum in the Netherlands.

Cunégonde Receives Her Family

1912 • 6 min

Whilst the master of the house is away, the maid gets a visit from her family. Together, they attack her employer's bourgeois residence with ardent zeal and rustic technology.

Polidor vuol suicidarsi

1912 • 8 min

A slapstick short from Italian comic Polidor.