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The Better Man

The Better Man

1912 • 12 min • United States of America
With a fondness for gambling, Jim Saunders is given to neglecting his wife and child. One night during his absence at the saloon, Miguel Gomez, a Mexican outlaw, for whom $1,000 reward is offered, enters Jim's home and demands food of Mrs. Saunders.
Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch

Dr. Brian Pellie and the Secret Dispatch

1912 • 10 min • United Kingdom
Secret agent Tom Ware is given an important message to deliver to Russia. However a spy steals the message and Tom must retrieve it.
Parsifal

Parsifal

1912 • 50 min • Italy
A fantasy film about the knight Parsifal, who has to protect the Holy Grail from wizards.
The Ball Player and the Bandit

The Ball Player and the Bandit

1912 • 12 min • United States of America
An Easterner wins his battles in the West by using his fists.
The Usurer's Grip

The Usurer's Grip

1912 • 15 min
Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
Wooden Athelete

Wooden Athelete

1912 • 5 min • United Kingdom
Stripped-back wooden dolls put on the greatest show on Earth via the marvel of stop motion.
Around the World in Two Hours

Around the World in Two Hours

1912 • 4 min • Italy
A tour of the "ethno-geographical" and "zoological gardens" in Hamburg, Germany, which weaved the global ideas of the end of the century 19th century World's Fair.
Her Secret

Her Secret

1912 • 10 min • United States of America
The husband was stern, solemn and never could understand why anyone should laugh. The wife didn't have much sense, perhaps, but she was full of life and laughter. Why they should have married was a mystery; that there should have come a matrimonial shipwreck was hardly a surprise.
Dora Thorne

Dora Thorne

1912 • 10 min • United States of America
A young lord elopes with an employee's daughter. The visit of a lady to her home causes the young wife to leave her husband. Years later the peer succeeds to his family estates. Approaching his wife for forgiveness, his entreaties are of no avail. He meets his daughter on the cliffs, and she by accident falls and is killed. The sight of the dead body causes the wife to seek the protection and consolation of her husband
Animated Doll and Toy Town Circus

Animated Doll and Toy Town Circus

1912 • 3 min
An early experiment in bringing colour to animation sees a bubble-blowing doll, a toy circus and a stubborn donkey revelling in two-tone glory.
La Cassette de l'émigrée

La Cassette de l'émigrée

1912 • 19 min • France
What the Doctor Ordered

What the Doctor Ordered

1912 • 10 min
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.
Pat's Day Off

Pat's Day Off

1912 • 6 min • United States of America
After an argument with his wife in which nosy neighbors and police intervene, Pat feigns suicide by drowning to get sympathy.
How States Are Made

How States Are Made

1912 • 12 min
Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when the unoccupied government lands were released for settlement, everyone who registered their names was given a fair and free chance to secure one of the sections of land, which was apportioned off in sections. The settlers were drawn up in a long line at a certain distance from the lands opened up, some of them on horseback and others in vehicles of all descriptions. At the firing of a cannon, everybody made a rush for the land. Harvey Mattson and his wife Annie, with their child, emigrate form Missouri in a prairie schooner. On their way they hear of the opening up of the Cherokee Strip. They hasten there and Harvey pitches camp, preparatory to entering his name. Their child is taken sick. Harvey goes for the doctor, and during his absence. Bill Slick, a good-looking ruffian, tries to force his attentions upon Annie. She repulses him. Harvey and the doctor arrive, and he "settles" Bill without ceremony. The ruffian, enraged, leaves.
The Brave Hunter

The Brave Hunter

1912 • 8 min
Here it is nice to see Sennett playing a different character than his usual hillbilly lover. Sennett looks quite dashing as the big game hunter. He's quite comically cowardly when the real big game shows up. Mabel is so calm and natural with the bear that she appears like a goddess or other worldly creature. She acts as if she's doing the scene with a cat or dog.
Oh, Those Eyes

Oh, Those Eyes

1912 • 9 min
Seemingly every man is in love with Gladys (played by Mabel Normand). Wherever she goes, man start following her with much enthusiasm. Two men at the place her father works want to marry her...both send her letters asking for such. She accepts both! Her father finds out and decides to play a trick on her.
Fra Diavolo

Fra Diavolo

1912 • 30 min • United States of America
Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.
Memento Mori

Memento Mori

1912 • 30 min • Denmark
Laurent, a painter, observes the performance of the dancer Marguerite and immediately feels drawn to her beauty and being. He invites her to his studio and the two fall in love. Unfortunately, Marguerite is already married to Stelio, who soon finds out about the affair. Stelio seeks out the hypnotist Pizarro for revenge, and the story takes a deadly turn. (Stumfilm.dk)
Fate's Interception

Fate's Interception

1912 • 17 min • United States of America
The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he pays considerable attention to the little Mexican girl, at whose home he is a roomer. The girl falls deeply in love with the American, who wins her absolute confidence. When the time comes for his departure, he of course cannot take her with him, and when he says goodbye, she realizes how false his promises were. Her love for the American now turns to bitter hate, so she agrees to marry her erstwhile sweetheart, whom she threw aside for the American, if he will avenge her wrong. This he consents to do.
The Informer

The Informer

1912 • 18 min • United States of America
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
An Agitated Night

An Agitated Night

1912 • 7 min
It is Max's wedding night, married to the beautiful Stacia Napierkowska. He and his bride are sleeping..... and a flea keeps disturbing him.
The Sewer

The Sewer

1912 • 20 min • United States of America
A noted philanthropist is captured by a rowdy gang, but one of the children involved resists the gang's insistence that he turn to a life of crime.
Aunty's Romance

Aunty's Romance

1912 • 13 min • United States of America
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
The Groom

The Groom

1912 • 4 min • Russia