All Films

The Lacemaker

1912 • 20 min • France

Based on the dutch paintings of lacemakers of the same time - the film depicts a poor woman's strive for money to be able to marry her beloved; doing so by entering a local lacing competition.

Max Sets the Fashion

1912 • 9 min • France

Max, awakening on his wedding morning, discovers that it is close on the hour when he should be at the church. He dresses hastily, and in struggling with a refractory collar, allows his boots to be burnt by the fire. There is no time to change them, and he hastens off to the bride's house. On the way his soles part company with their uppers, and poor Max enters into negotiations with a passing labourer for the purchase of his footgear.

Fire at Sea

1912 • 34 min • Denmark

The popular artist Frank Harvey has been offered a job in America. On the voyage across the Atlantic, Harvey catches sight of the captain’s beautiful daughter, and the two quickly become good friends. However, a fire breaks out in the ship’s hold, and while the crew struggles to put out the flames, Harvey has to keep the passengers calm with his very best performances, and pray for his and the lives of others. (Stumfilm.dk)

Léontine’s Pranks

1912 • 5 min • France

Yet again, Léontine ignores the well-meaning advice of her mother. She attempts to hang her downstairs neighbor (played by a man in drag) with a rope, which she then uses to attach a bookseller’s kiosk to a moving vehicle. A vengeful mob and the police gather, as they do, but she entraps them on a scaffolding by removing the rope ladder.

Stockholm - the Olympic Games, 1912

1912 • 9 min • France

Trials and tribulations in outdoor tennis, football, wrestling and marathon running at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games.

A Game of Chess

1912 • 8 min • Italy

Italian short drama directed by Luigi Maggi.

A Freight Train Drama

1912 • 13 min

Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.

The Cry of the Children

1912 • 29 min • United States of America

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.

The Post Telegrapher

1912 • 25 min • United States of America

Bob Evans, a telegraph operator, together with a group of soldiers gets ambushed by Sioux Indians. Wounded, he climbs into a telegraph pole and asks through the telegraph wires for help from the fort. Bob's fiancée Edith comes along with the soldiers. The soldiers find only dead bodies and decide to chase the Indians. Edith stays behind to search for Bob. She finds him and together they return to the fort. The Sioux then attack the fort, but when the situation seems hopeless, the army returns and the Indians are expelled.

The Governor's Daughter

1912 • 27 min • Denmark

1912 film by August Blom

A Farmhouse Romance

1912 • 10 min

Max is informed by his rich uncle that he's tired of supporting him. Instead, he has a farmer friend and he wants Max to marry one of the farmer's daughters. However, the farmer decides that his oldest is for Max and has the youngest dress up like a maid. However, Max finds himself drawn to this 'maid' and although he wants to follow his uncle's advice, his heart is leading him to who he thinks is a common working girl. It all culminates in a cute final scene.

One Is Business, the Other Crime

1912 • 15 min • United States of America

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.

An Interrupted Elopement

1912 • 8 min

This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand, but papa interferes. The big joke is when Ford Sterling and Elmer Booth kidnap the minister in order to marry Dillon and Normand. They mistakingly get Papa instead. It is the one strong gag in the film.

Lieutenant Daring, R.N. And the Plans of the Mine Fields

1912 • 13 min • United Kingdom

A spy paints plans on a girl's back and is caught in Boulogne after a chase by motorcycle, horse, car and monoplane.

Opening of the City Café in Bitola

1912 • 2 min • Macedonia

Early Balkan footage.

Seine Vergangenheit

1912 • 10 min

The Water-Funker

1912 • 14 min

Max is in love with Lili, capricious bride who won't do his will until he has recovered the ring she launched into the sea. But Max is afraid of water...

August Strindberg's Burial

1912 • 7 min

Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) died on May 14, 1912, in Stockholm. The funeral march, five days later, was accompanied by 60,000 mourners.

Bébé Is In Silence

1912 • 3 min

Butalin troppo onesto

1912 • 6 min • Italy

A man emerges from the bank with his wallet full. He drops it on the ground. A workman spots it and tries to give it back. Fearing he is about to be mugged, the first man flees, with the second pursuing.

Life on the Circle Ranch in California

1912 • 12 min • United States of America

Fictionalized look at life on a ranch

A Timely Repentance

1912 • 10 min • United States of America

A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures her away. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. While awaiting the train to leave the city they visit a picture house. The story thrown on the screen is identical to their own experience. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs to leave and hurries home, hoping she may get there before her husband returns.

The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris

1912 • 36 min • France

Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their relationship.

The Mountaineer's Romance

1912 • 22 min

A man fights his sister's fiancé, thinking he loves an American tourist.