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Picturesque Waterfalls of Italy

1912 • 1 min

Garden scenes in Villa d'Este, near Rome.

La vita dei nostri Ascari eritrei in Libia

1912 • 7 min

The Anger of Mrs Plumette

1912 • 6 min • France

La Fureur de Mme. Plumette (1912) opens with a sight gag about menstruation but unfolds as a hilarious celebration of unrepressed female anger.

František Palacký Monument Prior to Its Completion

1912 • 2 min

Short 'reportage' of the statue.

Haunting Gratitude

1912 • 7 min • France

Flippie Brom is saved when he wants to commit suicide. He is given an umbrella and money. He is so grateful to the donor that he follows him - to great annoyance of the donor. To get rid of Flippie, the donor even tries to drown him. Finally Flippie is run over and loses his lower legs. The donor runs away with the lower legs. But even crawling, Flippie finds him again.

Broncho Billy's Gratitude

1912 • 11 min • United States of America

Dan Hart, a worthless good-for-nothing, takes the wedding ring from his wife's finger to pawn, and spends the money for drink, leaving a note saying he has given up all claim to her as his wife. Mrs. Hart takes her little girl and leaves for the west.

The Lady Barber of Roaring Gulch

1912 • 10 min • United States of America

Violet De Ray opens up a barber shop at Roaring Gulch. Violet not only does a ripping good business, but she unconsciously has a hand in hurrying along several matrimonial affairs which have hung fire. This is notably the case with Si, who has loved bashfully and at a respectable distance for years. He is lured into Violet's shop, and after his chin whiskers have been clipped he emerges elated; and this coupled with Mandy's desire to protect him from such evil influences, cements a long drawn out romance.

Cunégonde is a Member of the SPCA

1912 • 2 min

Cunégonde series, French comedy shorts

Cunégonde the Chimney Sweep

1912 • 7 min

In Peril of Their Lives

1912 • 10 min • United States of America

A California fisherman starts with his family for a trip up the coast. When the party finds a desirable location, the girls begin to gather shellfish while the men ply their trade. When the fishermen attempt to return, their boat is wrecked in the surf and they are caught in the rocks. As evening comes on the girls leave for the camp and are startled by hearing a gunshot. They investigate and find that a hunter, bitten by a rattlesnake, has fired to attract attention. The girls assist the hunter to dress his wound and as they depart they sight the fishermen imprisoned on the rocks. With the assistance of their newfound friend they succeed in rescuing their relatives.

Races at Banjica

1912 • 12 min • Serbia

Newsreel depicting the horse race at Banjica, Serbia, in August 1911.

Countess Charlotte

1912 • 31 min • Sweden

Melodrama set in the 1600's.

The Opium Pipe

1912 • 16 min

1912 French silent short drama directed by René Leprince.

Bandits en automobile

1912 • 29 min

In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly interested in detective or crime genres and with series like Nick Carter and Zigomar he is considered as one of the creators of the serial. The spectacular siege of Jules Bonnot’s Gang at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris on April 28th 1912 inspired Jasset to make this ‘Bandits en automobile’. French audiences recognized immediately the resemblances with the actual Bonnot Gang, a reason for which the film was prohibited in many cities.

A Sword Dance Performed before the King and Queen in India

1912 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

The Haunted Rocker

1912 • 8 min

An old rocking chair makes a story out of Old Boggs, his daughter Madge, and her boyfriend Jack.

Fleurs des champs

1912 • 3 min • France

Recordings of various wild flowers. A caterpillar crawls on a plant and turns into a pupa. A butterfly emerges from the pupa. It turns out to be a woman and she does a dance. Contains fragments from Gaston Velle's La métamorphose du papillon (1904)

The Daughter of Vesuvius

1912 • 34 min • Italy

Film Dora production possibly featuring Elvira Notari

Return to the Wave

1912 • 48 min • Italy

Lost Film Dora production

How Ned Got the Raise

1912 • 10 min

Ned Elliott, a young clerk, is engaged to be married. His salary is not large enough to support a wife and he asks his employer for a "raise," which is refused. The same thing occurs several times, and with each refusal Ned postpones his marriage. In despair he concocts a scheme to make his employer give him the coveted "raise." He takes a bright young maid who works at his boarding house into his confidence. Knowing that Mr. Hadley, his employer, is a flirt, and that Mrs. Hadley is extremely jealous, Ned plans to have Mary, the maid, come to Hadley's office and declare herself his (Hadley's) wife. Ned arranges it so that Mrs. Hadley arrives on the scene at the same time. A series of most laughable incidents follow Mary's entrance in Hadley's office, ending with Ned getting his "raise." But the raise is such that, well, it would spoil the splendid finish of the story to tell it.

Flowery Spring

1912 • 5 min • France

Men, women and children picking the blossoms of spring's floral harvest.

Gavroche peintre célèbre

1912 • 6 min • France

Paul Bertho keeps a lion in his artist's studio, for the apparent purpose of eating his sofa, easel, canvas and hat. People come in to look at the artists work or sit for a portrait, but react to the lion.... much as I would, I imagine. Bertho seems to be mostly annoyed by it.

Driven by Love

1912 • 9 min

Gavroche veut faire un riche mariage

1912 • 9 min • France

Gavroche lives by his wit, so when he reads an ad, which tells that a rich American girl will marry the man who can cause her to experience the greatest thrill or sensation, he puts his mental ingenuity working, and he conceives a plan to win. He calls at her address and sees two suitors try and fail. He then goes to a menagerie, where he buys two lions. With these he returns and enters the office where the contract is to be signed if he should prove the victor. All flee before Gavroche and his lions, all but the heiress, who flies into his arms begging protection. Thus it is that he caused her the greatest emotion or thrill and she gladly names him victor and husband-to-be.