All Films

Paz e Amor

1910 • 45 min • Brazil

Criticism of the events of the civilist campaign, the owners of national politics and customs.

Carmen: Air du toréador

1910 • 4 min • France

Early sound film taking a scene from Carmen.

The Celebration of Sokol in Split

1910 • 10 min

Una giornata ventosa

1910 • 9 min • Italy

Ricordo della Settimana d’Aviazione

1910 • 13 min

The Telephone

1910 • 6 min • United States of America

An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.

Egypt

1910 • 9 min

A travelogue from Egypt, showing views from places such as Alexandria, Heliopolis, Bedrechein, Mansoura, Damietta, Aswan, the baths of Cleopatra and the island of Philae.

The Engagement Ring

1910 • 11 min • Denmark

A fisherman has a quarrel with his fiancé who, in rage, throws her ring into the sea. An old suitor notices her bare ring finger and senses a second chance. While on a fishing trip, he happens to catch the fish that seems to have swallowed the thrown-away ring. Luck befalls him once again as later in the day, he wins a card game with the fisherman who, frustrated, has to give up his own ring. The old suitor is now in possession of both rings, while things only go downhill for the poor fisherman. (stumfilm.dk)

Värmlänningarne

1910 • 23 min • Sweden

A marriage with complications.

London Street Scenes - Trafalgar Square

1910 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Spot the changes and continuities in this majestic Edwardian panorama of Trafalgar Square.

The Tales of Ensign Stål

1910 • 19 min • Sweden

Early film adaptation of the epic poem.

Two-step

1910 • 7 min

Dance film.

Princess Tarakanova

1910 • 19 min • Russia

Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to the throne.

Two Little Jesus'

1910 • 10 min • France

Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monastery church....

Antwerp in the Year '10

1910 • 4 min

Atmospheric images of trafic on Meir and De Keyserlei. Horse and cart still dominate the scene. Different views of the city and Harbour seen from the Scheldt river.

Jean the Match-Maker

1910 • 13 min

Bent on having a summer’s vacation, two working girls hire a tent and pitch their camp on the shore of a beautiful lake. As fate would have it, two farmer lads, living with their widowed mother and their pet border collie Jean, unexpectedly come onto the tent of the girls.

Fording the River

1910 • 3 min

Kinemacolor

Roosevelt in Africa

1910 • 13 min

Silent documentary about the Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition, featuring Theodore Roosevelt in the wilds of East Africa, in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East

1910 • 13 min • United States of America

Highlights from the Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East shows.

Värmländingarna

1910 • 32 min • Sweden

Councilor Sven Ersson and Farmer Jan Hansson has been bitter enemies for several years. Sven's neighbour Ola in Gyllby has a daughter Britta. The perfect partner for Sven's son Erik. But Erik only have eyes for Anna. The daughter of Jan Hansson. Unaware of the hostility between the families, Erik has asked Anna to marry him.

Don Juan de Serrallonga

1910 • 58 min • Spain

The very first Spanish full feature-length film is based on musical composed by Enric Morera on a libretto by Francesc Pujols i Morgades, based on a work by Víctor Balaguer premiered on October 7, 1922 at the Tívoli Theater in Barcelona. The action takes place around the Catalan gang in the seventeenth century; it is a story of impossible love between "nyerros" and "cadells" that culminates with the execution of the titled protagonist.

The Colonel's Boots

1910 • 9 min • France

Paul and Jeanne are devoted lovers and meet on the balcony of their homes, which are side by side. The affair does not meet with the approval of Jeanne's papa, a retired colonel, who drags his daughter from the balcony. Balked of a personal meeting with his divinity, the young man tries to convey a note to her, and drops it, as he imagines, in her shoe. Unluckily the note falls into the colonel's boot by mistake, and the latter is amazed by the sudden affection of his daughter, who tries to persuade him not to go out. He insists, and accompanied by the girl, ventures into the street. The lover's efforts are now all directed towards getting hold of the boot with its incriminating contents.

The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy

1910 • 12 min

Krievijas imperatora Nikolaja II viesošanās Rīgā

1910 • 10 min • Russia

A film capturing Russian Emperor Nicholas II visit to Riga. Considered to be the first film shot in the territory of Latvia.