A short, silent crime film in which a trader in Mexican goods has to bring a shipment of contraband to the Mexican rebels. But someone leaks this plan to the police.
A short, silent romantic drama about a count who goes to work in a New York restaurant because of his money problems. When his daughter, who knows nothing about the situation, comes to eat in the same...
A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town with a friend, gets caught by her.
A romantic drama in which the alcoholic father of Liza disapproves of his daughter’s relationship.
A melodrama set during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.
A short Western. Ivi, the beautiful daughter of an Indian chief, has three suitors. A competition will decide who gets to marry her. The winner is not Panther, who was Ivy’s favourite. But after he ...
Animated commercial about Niemeyer pipe tobacco: a live-action hand creates an imitation of Koko the clown, who in turn introduces a cat named Felix, the quick-draw artist. Felix draws a variety of me...
A short espionage film set during the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln sends a captain to find a spy who has betrayed the northern states.
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Crime drama about the rivalry between two men regarding a new invention and a cute girl.
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...