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The Manufacture of Walking Sticks

The Manufacture of Walking Sticks

1912 • 6 min
Supplies from across the globe are gathered at the Henry Howell & Co. factory on Old Street in London; pimento from the West Indies, ash from England. Inside the factory, workers shape hazel on a bandsaw and bend rattan to form crook handles, whilst rough stick are heated in a kiln ready for straightening. A wider shot shows employees in one of the company's cramped but busy workshops. A medium shot shows a worker cutting silver ready for mounting. Once shaped and straightened, each stick is carefully tested and examined, before being adorned with hand-chased silver mounts or engraved silver handles. Each stick-end is then sanded ready to be fitted with a ferrule cap to protect these ends from wear and tear. The despatch room is as busy as the workshop, as stock is pulled from storage and orders are prepared for delivery. A completed order, placed in a large box bound for Philadelphia, is loaded onto the street. [...] -East Anglian Film Archive
Onésime vs. Onésime

Onésime vs. Onésime

1912 • 8 min • France
His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences.
The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino

The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino

1912 • 47 min • United States of America
The story of Lt. Joseph Petrosino, an Italian-American New York City police detective, who was assigned to investigate the Sicilian Mafia, which was beginning to become a major problem in New York. He did such a good job that the city sent him to Sicily to gather information on the Sicily/New York Mafia connections. He was murdered in Palermo by Mafia gunmen.
La nave dei leoni

La nave dei leoni

1912 • 21 min
Italian short drama directed by Luigi Maggi.
Max and His Dog Dick

Max and His Dog Dick

1912 • 11 min • France
When Max, a newly married man, suspects that his wife may be cheating on him, he gives his faithful dog Dick orders to keep on eye on her when he's not at home.
Romeo e Giulietta

Romeo e Giulietta

1912 • 37 min • Italy
The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
The Relief of Lucknow

The Relief of Lucknow

1912 • 10 min • United States of America
The story of the siege and eventual relief of British soldiers garrisoned at Lucknow during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. Only a fragment of the original film remains.
A Cave Man Wooing

A Cave Man Wooing

1912 • 12 min
George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a strapping, musclebound stud is also after Clarice, and she seems to prefer him to George. After reading an article by a female writer saying that women prefer the "caveman" type of man, George decides that if that what it takes to get Clarice, then that is what he will be.
The Mysteries of Souls

The Mysteries of Souls

1912 • 36 min • Italy
Frank Alberti is the guardian of Lydia, a sweet and unsuspecting young girl. By the terms of his brother's will in the event of her death he will come into possession of her property. He plots to remove her and adopts despicable methods. He is a man of some prominence and he enlists the services of one Bernard, a gambler, who is possessed of remarkable hypnotic power over weaker minds.
Gaumont Graphic: Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson with the Pony 'Nobby'

Gaumont Graphic: Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson with the Pony 'Nobby'

1912 • 1 min • United Kingdom
Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson is holding 'Nobby', one of the Siberian ponies accompanying the Expedition to serve as pack animals for the assault on the South Pole.
Specter of the Sea

Specter of the Sea

1912 • 40 min • Germany
In the form of a shadow, Death emerges from the sea and convinces an unhappy woman to commit suicide by returning to the sea with him.
Iola's Promise

Iola's Promise

1912 • 18 min • United States of America
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.
The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1912 • 12 min • United States of America
Silent film drama of the famous incident..
The Peasants' Lot

The Peasants' Lot

1912 • 30 min • Russia
Two peasants in feudal Russia wish to marry but tragedy strikes. A grim if familiar depiction of the precarious condition of the rural life.
Der weiße Schleier

Der weiße Schleier

1912 • 10 min
She Cried

She Cried

1912 • 10 min
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
Love and Science

Love and Science

1912 • 15 min • France
A work-obsessed inventor uses a video-telephone to spy on his girlfriend, who in turn uses film to teach him a lesson. (MoMA)
Calino, Love Tamer

Calino, Love Tamer

1912 • 7 min • France
One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads him all the way to the traveling lion cage run by her husband. To avoid her husband's jealous anger, the woman introduces Calino as an apprentice lion tamer.
Long-Lasting Love

Long-Lasting Love

1912 • 18 min • France
As a struggling artist, Max is not allowed to pay attentions to a girl by her father. Max decides to win by persistency, and it is a case where persistency meets obstinacy to come off victorious. The artist is required to follow the father and daughter through the Alps. He finally gets the old man's promise to give his consent to the marriage in payment for his rescue.
Assassination and burial of José Canalejas

Assassination and burial of José Canalejas

1912 • 7 min • Spain
Film based on the assassination of the Spanish politician José Canalejas at Manuel Pardiñas's hands on 12 November of 1912. It has two parts: The first one is a fiction representation of the assassination. The second one is a real-life filming of the funeral.
A Cry for Help

A Cry for Help

1912 • 17 min • United States of America
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
The Outlaw and the Baby

The Outlaw and the Baby

1912 • 10 min • United States of America
Joe Fuller, the outlaw and bandit, draws rein at a humble cottage and begs refreshment. The traditional hospitality of the west is at once shown him by Jane White, who is alone in the house at the time, with her baby daughter. The bandit is given food and drink, while he is eating which, the baby takes a child-like fancy to him.
Fricot in Love

Fricot in Love

1912 • 7 min • Italy
Short comedy with Fricot. He is in love with the foster daughter of a certain Ducormaid, but this guardian does not approve of their love. Fricot dresses up as a woman and gets a job as the guardian's maid, but then the guardian falls in love with Fricot.
Destiny Is Changeless

Destiny Is Changeless

1912 • 15 min • United States of America
A silent romantic film about the battle between two fur trappers for the hand of a lovely girl.