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Kolingens galoscher

Kolingens galoscher

1912 • 44 min • Sweden
A man buys a pair of galoshes at an auction and discovers they are magic, and can take the wearer wherever he wishes. He travels with a friend on an adventurous trip around the world.
Was He a German Spy?

Was He a German Spy?

1912 • 5 min
A henpeck taking photographs is mistaken for a spy.
The Peace Offering

The Peace Offering

1912 • 7 min
Arthur, who has been out the night before, is late to breakfast, much to the annoyance of his wife. When he finally makes his appearance in the dining room he finds that he has no appetite, and after a stormy scene he leaves for the office. Arthur's grouch hangs on until he encounters his friend, John. Both are ardent baseball fans, and a discussion of the game revives the husband's spirits to such an extent that he decides to send his wife a box of flowers as a peace offering.
Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

1912 • 5 min
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
Everything for Norway

Everything for Norway

1912 • 10 min • Norway
A documentary about Robert Stephanson's 1911 balloon voyage. The journey went from Bislett to Braenmoen in Solor. This film is considered lost.
Oh, You Ragtime!

Oh, You Ragtime!

1912 • 5 min
The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "Alexander's Ragtime Band") on the piano; it is such a joyful tune that everyone in the neighborhood starts to dance. When he finally stops everyone is exhausted.
Auf dornigen Pfaden

Auf dornigen Pfaden

1912 • 10 min • Germany
The Flaming Arrow

The Flaming Arrow

1912 • 8 min • Netherlands
At the age of 14 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from his father's shop. This became his first film, Wigwam, with his own family as cast. Black Eagle, a bad Indian, kidnaps the daughter of a farmer's family. Flaming Arrow, played by the young director, saves the child from the kidnapper and brings her back to her family. No better conclusion than smoking a peace pipe. Although filmed in the spring of 1912, the film had a theatrical release in December 1915.
Rock of Ages

Rock of Ages

1912 • 16 min • United States of America
Madeline carves a cross in memory of her husband, lost at sea. A sculptor recognizes her skill and invites Madeline to leave her fishing village and come to the big city. Later, the memory of the cross comes to her mind at difficult moments.
Bunny's Suicide

Bunny's Suicide

1912 • 4 min
A tragicomedy in which the suicide attempt of the character Bunny is seen by a neighbour, who quickly calls for help.
Like a Sister

Like a Sister

1912 • 32 min • Italy
Italian drama directed by Vincenzo Denizot.
Bread Upon the Waters

Bread Upon the Waters

1912 • 10 min • United States of America
Tim Clancy, an ex-convict, on the day of his release, returns home and is welcomed by his mother and sweetheart. He decides to turn over a new leaf. He applies and secures work at the Ganes shoe factory. Here he is recognized by a detective and when his record is made known to the management he is discharged. The inevitable follows.
A Mexican Courtship

A Mexican Courtship

1912 • 17 min • United States of America
Within the sunny little Mexican City of Juarez, Alonzo, the famous bull-fighter, is to match his skill against the bull from Chihuahua. Pretty Dolores wanders one day without the Plaza El Torres, hoping to get one peep at the wonderful animals. Juan, a young Mexican employed at the Plaza, sees the girl and attracted by her beauty, offers to show her the bulls. He takes her within the Plaza and shows her all the interesting sights. The young people are mutually interested in each other and it proves a case of love at first sight. Alonzo also meets the girl and proposes for her hand. While Dolores loves Juan, she is quickly given to understand by her parents that Alonzo is a much more desirable match and that she must give up poor Juan. This Dolores reluctantly agrees to do. Finally the eventful day arrives. Alonzo, however, reaches the Plaza far too drunk to enter the arena and the management is in despair.
Frozen on Love's Trail

Frozen on Love's Trail

1912 • 13 min
A white girl, living with her father at the barracks near an Indian reservation, is very kind to a half-breed Indian. He falls in love with her but she does not encourage him. However, she one day is about to accept a trinket from him, when one of the soldiers, who is also in love with her, intimates something that does not sound nice to a good girl's ears.
The Signal Fire

The Signal Fire

1912 • 10 min • United States of America
A short romantic drama in which a captain and his wife are separated by a shipwreck. The woman ends up on a desert island with another man, and they have a relationship. When they are saved by the captain, he decides to stay behind on the island, alone.
Woman's Logic

Woman's Logic

1912 • 13 min
Italian film from 1912
Gavroche rêve de grandes chasses

Gavroche rêve de grandes chasses

1912 • 8 min • France
Funnicus is hunting, while at his home many of his friends await his return very impatiently. Suddenly he makes his appearance, his game-bag full, of newspapers. He tells his friends that he actually disdains small game, and to illustrate the story of his wondrous adventures, turns the house topsy-turvy. His wife, alarmed, advises him to go to bed and calm his excited brain. Nightmares disturb his sleep. He finds himself in Africa, traveling on camel, accompanied by many guides. He arrives at an Arab's camp and jests with the Arabian maidens who, for revenge, put out his fires in the forest the following night. The fires out, the wild beasts arrive, and he just has time to climb a tree where he is out of reach of two big lions, who wait for him at the foot of the tree. Our great Hunter courageously risks his life by descending from the tree. He tries to strangle the lion, but suddenly awakens and finds himself clutching at his wife's throat.
How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

1912 • 6 min • United States of America
Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.
In the Limelight

In the Limelight

1912 • 12 min • France
Short melodrama. Two former lovers meet twenty years later when the man has to compete with the son of the woman.
The Heart of an Indian

The Heart of an Indian

1912 • 32 min • United States of America
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.
Artheme Dupin Escapes Again

Artheme Dupin Escapes Again

1912 • 7 min • France
Short chase comedy from a series with the character Arthème Dupin. The police are chasing escape artist Dupin, but he is outsmarting them so the policemen themselves end up in prison.
Sommergibili nel Mediterraneo

Sommergibili nel Mediterraneo

1912 • 8 min
Italian documentary on submarines.
From the Submerged

From the Submerged

1912 • 14 min • United States of America
A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman. When she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he remembers his own past and the woman who saved him.
The Aeroplane Inventor

The Aeroplane Inventor

1912 • 26 min • Denmark
The creative yet debt-ridden inventor Fred must sell his beloved prototype of an aeroplane. Fred’s wife is ill and needs expensive medicine. The buyer is the usurer Frank, who doesn’t understand technology other than a status symbol. Thus, Frank needs a pilot, and Fred swallows his pride and takes the job. On the day of the test flight, a violent storm is brewing. Will Fred’s own invention seal his fate? (Stumfilm.dk)