All Films

Peking and Its Surroundings

1910 • 6 min • France

French documentary about life in China.

From Sorrento to Amalfi

1910 • 4 min • Italy

A train passes through the wonderful landscapes of the Sorrento and Amalfi coasts.

A Pretty Dutch Town

1910 • 4 min • Netherlands

A short film depicting the canals of Dordrecht.

Bradford Under Snow

1910 • 5 min • United Kingdom

This is a film showing various places in Bradford and Saltaire when they were covered in snow. It includes a horse drawn snow plough clearing away the snow, with intertitles bearing the initials ‘HPL’.

Halifax Day by Day

1910 • 2 min

Early footage of Halifax in the Edwardian era.

Au pays des pêcheurs

1910 • 3 min • France

This silent film, colored with stencils and restored by the French Film Archives (CNC) for the Cinémathèque de Bretagne in 1993, allows you to discover images of old sailing ships, Breton women in headdresses on the coast at Penmarc'h at the beginning of the last century.

Hako's Sacrifice

1910 • 12 min • United States of America

Poor Hako, a Japanese boy, is sold into bondage to a cruel fisherman who makes his life a burden and even more wretched than his physical deformities and weakness.

Holger the Dane

1910 • 4 min • Denmark

FRAGMENT | In the cellars of Kronborg, a fully armed Holger the Dane sits quietly sleeping when he is suddenly called into action. Princess Gloriant has fallen into the clutches of the heathen giant Burmand, so Holger must act swiftly. Fortunately, he arrives in time to prevent the abductor from harming his intended victim. Only a fragment of the film has been preserved. In its entirety, it told the tales related in the two legends about ‘Holger Danske and Didrik the Strong’ and ‘Holger Danske and Burmand’. (stumfilm.dk)

Interior of Africa

1910 • 5 min • Belgium

Film about Africa with images of various activities, including mashing of corn, embroidery, pottery, tipping trailers, diamond mining and hunting for hippos in the Zambezi river. In addition, you can see images of the indigenous population (women, children), local animal species such as zebras and antelopes, and the Victoria Falls.

Rice Festival in Kyoto

1910 • 7 min • France

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

Rice Industry in Japan

1910 • 8 min • France

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

Asleep at the Switch

1910 • 4 min • United States of America

A railway switchman falls asleep whilst on duty. The swicthman wakes up too late, and, realizing his error, begins to hallucinate the probable outcome of his inaction. His wife, however, springs into action.

Flies: A Scientific Film

1910 • 6 min • France

About the development of flies and the diseases they can transmit such as tuberculosis.

The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi

1910 • 8 min • Japan

The Black Domino

1910 • 13 min • Denmark

A young man finds himself at loggerheads with his friend after he has tried to kiss his wife and at the same time turns out to be a common thief. When they meet again several years later, the villain has become a member of the crime gang called The Black Domino. By a nefarious trick, the villain gains access to his old friends’ villa and pretends to reconcile with them, while his hooded, cloaked and masked cronies prepare to kidnap the man as soon as he steps out the door. (stumfilm.dk)

The Lötschberg Railway

1910 • 4 min

Travelogue: various recordings of a train journey along Lötschberg, Switzerland. Opening of the Thun-Lötschberg-Brig section on July 15, 1913, part of the BLS line (Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon). Recording: Kandersteg, Lötschberg tunnel, nature images, waiting delegation. Locomotive type Be 5/7. Electrical depot.

Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole Expedition

1910 • 14 min • Sweden

A multi-national Arctic Expedition, either the 1901 or 1903 expedition.

Pathé's Animated Gazette: The Ship 'Terra Nova'

1910 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Large crowds are gathered to see Captain Scott's Terra Nova at Cardiff's Bute Docks as the ship moves away from the quay on her voyage to Antarctica.

Animated Politics

1910 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Woolwich candidates face the voters in the first of 1910's two general elections.

Scenes in the Record: Demonstration of Suffragettes

1910 • 3 min

An early view of Emily Wilding Davison in the multitudes of women in a mass demonstration organised by the Women’s Social and Political Union on 18 June 1910

Les gorges de Sierroz

1910 • 4 min

Travelogue.

Catania

1910 • 4 min

Early travelogue

Amalfi

1910 • 4 min

Early Travelogue.

Excursion à la Grotte d’Azur

1910 • 4 min

Early travelogue.