All Films

Keserü szerelem

1912 • 11 min • Hungary

An older man wants to propose to a young woman. However, her family decides to form a plot so that she won't get engaged.

Dr. LaFleur's Theory

1912 • 12 min • United States of America

Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that.

The Fantastic Iris

1912 • 4 min • France, Spain

This magical masterpiece was released in 1912 by Segundo de Chomón.

A Cowboy's Best Girl

1912 • 10 min • United States of America

Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr, and tells of the engagement. Lucy, who also had designs on Glen, congratulates Alice, but determines to break up the match.

Playmates

1912 • 13 min • United States of America

A short film about the friendship between a little girl and a stray dog.

On Secret Service

1912 • 33 min • United States of America

Fred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, the signature to his messages is forged, and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops into an ambush. He accomplishes this and a terrible battle results, in which the Federals are driven back. The work of Martin is so damaging to the North that plans are laid for his capture, and John Bruce, a secret service man, is assigned to the task.

Gribouille redevient Boireau

1912 • 10 min • France

Directed by André Deed.

Her Bitter Lesson

1912 • 12 min • United States of America

Aurora Floyd elopes from boarding school with John Conyers, but hardly a week has elapsed before she discovers that she has married a worthless libertine. She appeals to her father for aid and advice and he finally pays Conyers to leave the country for a year, so that she can secure a divorce on the ground of desertion.

Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel

1912 • 18 min

A steel worker is told by his girl friend, that she only wants to marry a rich man. A foreign spy hears this and offers him money if he gives him the formula of the new steel he's working with.

The Transformation of Mike

1912 • 17 min

Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man's money, not realizing it's his girlfriend's father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness.

The Conflict's End

1912 • 15 min

A newspaper woman buys a statuette from an Italian peddler and is given her change in counterfeit bills. Throught the peddler, she tracks down the counterfeiters.

The Furs

1912 • 8 min

Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along with her mother Kate Bruce. She steals some money from her hubby to go shopping. Mack Sennett appears briefly as a shop salesman who sells her some furs.

With the Enemy's Help

1912 • 13 min • United States of America

A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.

Maiden and Men

1912 • 14 min • United States of America

This girl (a frowzy backwoods maiden who pines for the romance of the world), who has never known what it means to have the association of men, has derived all her romantic ideas from one lone novel, read when her father was away. She blossoms into womanhood and the call for companionship becomes insistent. One evening she slips away and travels to a distant ranch, to find employment as a maid-of-all-work, and it is here that she first experiences men. it is not as she thought and hoped it would be. They are rough, brutal and selfish. It is a rude awakening, and when the old lady, her employer, tells her to go back where she came from she accepts her advice, glad to get away from it all and live alone with her father

When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet

1912 • 15 min • United States of America

Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfriend. Henri has a fight with his girlfriend, Dora. He tries to make excuses by phone and by mail, but his girlfriend wants to know nothing about him. Henry tries dressed as parcel delivery and as a woman, but even then it does not work. Eventually the opinion of his girlfriend changes, and the quarrel is over.

A Romance of the Rails

1912 • 13 min • United States of America

For years, William West has been living in a little house owned by the railroad. He has never paid rent. One day, railroad employee. George Lessey is ordered to go collect back rent. When he arrives, he discovers two things: West has no intention of paying any money, and he has a pretty niece staying with him, Bessie Learn.

Broncho Billy and the Bandits

1912 • 12 min • United States of America

Jim Matthews, express agent in Red Rock, Arizona, and his daughter Alice, are watching anxiously over the bedside of Mrs. Matthews, who is very ill. An express box of money is now left by the stage and Matthews is ordered to guard it overnight. The "Arizona Kid," a notorious bandit, who has followed the stage and watched while they left the box, now gallops back to the rendezvous of his pals, tells them of the easy chance to rob the office and they start at once. Meanwhile Alice has sent her father for a doctor and is all alone with her sick mother.

The Deputy's Peril

1912 • 15 min • United States of America

A silent Western and a love story. When the secret agent Marshall tries to nab a gang of counterfeiters, he falls in love with the daughter of the gang’s leader.

The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror

1912 • 16 min

During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agrees to marry one of their leaders in order to save her husband’s life. But her husband finds out about this, and forbids the Duchess to do so. The girlfriend of this leader takes revenge when she learns the truth, and stabs him. The two Béracs then proceed to the guillotine with their heads held high.

Tanz der Flaschen (Kupferberg Gold)

1912 • 2 min • Germany

Kupferberg ad by Pinschewer.

Merry Scenes from the Lives of Animals

1912 • 2 min • Russia

An insect-wedding animated in stop-motion.

Tanz der Flaschen

1912 • 2 min • Germany

Kupferberg Gold ad by Pinschewer.

When the Heart Calls

1912 • 10 min

Dick Lee, while hunting, meets James Gordon, an old rancher, who invites him to his cabin. Here he meets the rancher's daughter Mary. They soon become fast friends, and the girl's heart is almost broken when, at the end of the boy's holidays, he is to return to the city. Mary makes him promise to write. Back in the city, Dick tries to forget the country girl, and, as he is engaged to Lillian West, life is very gay indeed. Somehow, he cannot forget the little girl back on the ranch. The promised letter, however, is never written. Mary looks every day for the letter that does not come, and her father is very sad to see her pine away. At last he cannot stand it longer, and makes up his mind to go to the city and hunt Dick up.

The Heart of the King's Jester

1912 • 15 min • United States of America

A short drama directed by William Humphrey.