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- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené NavarreEdmund BreonGeorges MelchiorInspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- DirectorPhillips SmalleyLois WeberStarsLois WeberVal PaulDouglas GerrardAbandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsHilda BorgströmGeorg GrönroosAron LindgrenFinancial struggles separate a single mother from her children.
- DirectorVictorin-Hippolyte JassetStarsJosette AndriotLucien BatailleCharles KraussProtea, the best spy of Messinia, is sent on a dangerous mission with The Eel, her partner in crime, to retrieve a secret document in a neighboring country.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsKing BaggotLeah BairdHerbert BrenonBack from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- DirectorHanns Heinz EwersStellan RyeStarsPaul WegenerGrete BergerLyda SalmonovaBalduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
- DirectorLeedham BantockStarsSeymour HicksWilliam LuggLeedham BantockMiserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who tries to help him change his selfish ways and redeem his soul by showing him how much his greed has cost him and will continue to cost him if he doesn't atone. An early silent adaptation of the classic story, this version differs from others in that Marley also acts as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
- DirectorEnrico GuazzoniStarsAmleto NovelliGustavo SerenaCarlo CattaneoAn epic Italian film, "Quo Vadis" influenced many of the later movies.
- DirectorDhundiraj Govind PhalkeStarsD.D. DabkeAnna SalunkeGanpat G. ShindeThe film opens with a Ravi Varma like tableau showing King Harishchandra, his wife Taramati and his young son. The king is teaching his son archery. They go on a hunt. The king enters an area controlled by the Sage Vishwamitra. Three furies appear before the king caught in flames. The king tries to rescue them. These fairies try to seduce the king into renouncing his kingdom for his love of truth. The king endures much hardship including being banished from his kingdom before a god appears to reassure everyone that the whole narrative was merely a test of the king's integrity.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsMinnie Maddern FiskeRaymond BondDavid TorrenceA peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsGrete WiesenthalGösta EkmanRagnhild Ovenberg LycheA rich young man falls for a beautiful girl and meets with trouble.
- DirectorGeorge Loane TuckerStarsJane GailEthel GrandinWilliam H. TurnerWith aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- DirectorJoseph A. GoldenEdwin S. PorterStarsJames O'NeillNance O'NeilMurdock MacQuarrieA French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené NavarreEdmund BreonGeorges MelchiorIn Part Two of Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows Fantômas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.
- DirectorMario CaseriniEleuterio RodolfiStarsFernanda Negri PougetEugenia Tettoni FiorUbaldo StefaniTwo love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczA Christmas ornament comes alive and goes to a forest where he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared and to celebrate Christmas.
- DirectorAlbert CapellaniStarsMévistoJean JacquinetHenry KraussThe mechanic Etienne Lantier is a competent workman out of a job, whose tempestuous disposition is more than atoned for by a good heart. With bundle in hand he looks for work from town to town and in vain until he comes to the coal mines of Montsou. Luckily for him there is a vacancy because of a workman being absent, and the foreman, Maheu, hires him at the suggestion of his daughter, Catherine, who dressed as a man is wont to work like a man in the mine. Lantier creates an impression on her and she takes his part much to the chagrin of her accepted lover, Chaval, an unworthy and violent man. Lantier fails to recognize her as a woman until after sharing her lunch with him in the depths of the mine, her hair falls from under her miner's headgear. From that moment he devotes his whole heart to her. At the end of the day's labor Lantier, who has excited a fierce jealousy in Chaval, is invited by Maheu to become a boarder at his house and he joyfully accepts. The engineer, Negrel, making his daily descent into the mine finds the shoring timbers holding up the earth in a bad state and ready to fall. He makes a report recommending that the woodwork he immediately and properly repaired so as to avoid accident. The company, however, posts a notice saying that because the woodwork has to be repaired the price received by the miners per car of coal mined will be decreased. This arbitrary and unfair notice causes much discontent and anger among the miners. A mass meeting is called for at the Cabaret Rasseneur; Souvarine, an anarchistic workman, advocates violent measures. Lantier opposes this and suggests concerted action. The anger of the workmen breaks out afresh when they begin to receive their reduced wages and urged on by Lantier, whose influence is growing, they vote to strike. In the meantime Catherine, though in love with Lantier, dares not go back on her word to Chaval and marries him. Chaval treacherously carries full information of the strike proceedings to Mr. Hennebeau, the chief director of the company, and accepts pay for being a spy. The strike is now on amid general enthusiasm. In the meantime, Negrel, the engineer, who is in love with Hennebeau's daughter, pleads with Hennebeau to answer the miners' requests. Miss Hennebeau also pleads with her father, but in vain. The stores refuse to extend credit to the striking workmen and famine soon stalks among them. Lantier discovers to his surprise that Chaval is an exception and that he has plenty of food and money. As yet he has not discovered that Chaval is the paid spy of the company. Catherine brings secretly to her starving relative food and money. Chaval follows her, drives her from the house and strikes her. Lantier seeing it interferes in her behalf, and being attacked by Chaval thoroughly thrashes him. Chaval, taking advantage of the growing misery among the miners, urges some of them back to work. While they are in the mines the other strikers cut the elevator ropes. There is a panic in the mine depths. The imprisoned miners finally escape by ladders, but have to run the gauntlet of the enraged strikers, who still hold out. When Chaval is dragged from the mine Lantier rashes at him, but Catherine steps in between and prevents harm being done to her husband. Blinded by hatred Chaval goes to Hennebeau and denounces the miners' leaders, especially Lantier. The police are called upon to arrest him, but warned in time he escapes to the abandoned shaft of Voroux. The strike becomes violent and the troops are called in to reinforce the police. In the absence of Lantier, Souvarine is called in to head the strikers. Hennebeau's house is attacked and stoned. Seeing the soldiers preparing to fire on the mob, the director's daughter rushes from the house to try and avert the coming calamity. She is caught in the storm of bullets and dies together with many of the miners and their wives, among them Catherine's father. This crushes the strikers' movement and instigated by Chaval they vote to resume work. Lantier, emerged from his refuge, tries in vain to dissuade them, but his influence is gone and bowing to the majority he also goes back to work. Souvarine, alone implacable, determines upon desperate measures. He releases the bolts binding the barriers that hold back water from flooding the mine and the flood breaks loose. He is drowned in the cataclysm that follows. The miners, caught like rats in a trap, run madly hither and thither. Some escape, others, among them Lantier, Catherine and Chaval, are caught. These latter three find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned working pit, where they sit in despair with the water up to their knees. They have little food and when after long hours Catherine attempts to give a little of her lunch to Lantier. Chaval furiously opposes. Chaval finally attempts to deprive his wife by force of her morsel of food. In righteous rage Lantier strikes him and kills him. His dead body, floating on the water, haunts them. Forgetting their animosities, directors and workmen unite in the work of rescue. Through an abandoned pit they come near to Catherine and Lantier. Their signals being answered by the prisoners they redouble their exertions. By imprudence, however, an explosion takes place, which kills many of the rescuers and sets back the work. Among those killed is Catherine's brother. When the workers finally pierce the intervening walls they find only Lantier alive, for Catherine lies dead in his arms. When the unconscious man is brought into the daylight and at last opens his eyes it is the bereaved Negrel who, with a heart of sympathy, comforts him in his grief when he sees the body of his dead sweetheart. Broken in spirit he sees injustice rule and the poor pay the piper.
- DirectorAugust BlomStarsOlaf FønssIda OrloffEbba ThomsenAfter Dr. Friedrich's wife becomes mentally unstable and his research papers are rejected, he leaves the country to respite.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené NavarreEdmund BreonGeorges MelchiorAfter a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?
- DirectorMack SennettStarsMabel NormandMack SennettFord SterlingVirtuous Mabel rejects the improper advances of a villainous cad. The furious villain and his henchmen then seize Mabel and chain her to a railroad track. Mabel's anxious boyfriend turns for help to the great Barney Oldfield, who jumps in his racing car and speeds to the rescue.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsThe Bourrichon Family is in debt and must go on a journey to escape their creditors. But these creditors are persistent and pursue the family wherever they go, until the family must finally give up hope of escaping them and are forced to pay the money they owe.
- DirectorHenry MacRaeStarsClarence BurtonMarie WalcampPhyllis GordonAn old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczStarsIvan MozzhukhinOlga ObolenskayaLidiya TridenskayaBased on Gogol's story: It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Chub the Cossack just wants some vodka. Solokha's son, Vakula the smith, wants to court Chub's charming daughter Oksana, who sets him on a quest: if Vakula will bring her the tsaritsa's shoes, Oksana will marry him. Meanwhile, the popular Solokha has a series of male visitors to contend with. When Vakula interrupts her, it sets off a chain of events that leads to a busy night for everyone.
- DirectorFrank E. WolfeStarsGeorge CummingsClarence DarrowEthel DavisAn employee of an iron works is fired as a dangerous agitator, and after his friend dies in an explosion at the iron works, he runs for governor on a labor ticket.
- DirectorTheodore MarstonStarsWilliam RussellGerda HolmesHarry BenhamRobin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsFraunie FraunholzMarian SwayneA man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsKing BaggotJane GailMatt SnyderDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorJames YoungStarsCharles KentClara Kimball YoungJames YoungDecorated by the Legion of Honor for his services in the Imperial Guard, under the Emperor Napoleon, on the burning sands of Africa and the snows of Russia. Havresac, one of the Old Guard, in his second childhood, lives on the memories of his past. His niece, Melanie, works as a maker of artificial flowers and manages to keep a meager home over their heads. Two French officers, Colonel Weston and Colonel Millard, learning of their poverty and the past history of the old soldier, call at their home and provide for their needs. Colonel Weston falls in love with Melanie and asks her uncle's consent to their marriage. At first Havresac refuses, but later, he places Weston's hand in hers and gives them his blessing. Just after this has occurred, the old man hears the playing of the band of a passing regiment, and looking from the window. Insists upon taking his musket and joining the march. He is restrained by the Colonel and Melanie from leaving the room, but to satisfy the spark of his old-time valor, they allow him to stand in front of the window with his musket at "shoulder-arms." He becomes so inspired it is too much for his waning strength and he falls into his old arm-chair and passes through the last great battle of life into the presence of the Great Commander of those who have fought the fight and passed into the great beyond.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMae MarshLeslie LoveridgeAlfred PagetThe fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
- DirectorGiovanni Enrico VidaliStarsMario Guaita-AusoniaCristina RuspoliEnrico BracciSpartacus sold as a slave rises up and battles the evil Crassus.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWalter MillerLillian GishKate BruceA young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his concubine, remorse drives him to find his wife...
- DirectorHenry LehrmanStarsMabel NormandFred MaceNick CogleyAt a farm near Bangville, the young daughter see strangers in the barn. She quickly rushes to the house and calls the police. The police engage in a haphazard rush across the countryside to get there in time.
- DirectorYevgeny BauerStarsNina ChernovaA. UgrjumovV. DemertA young, rich woman decides to dedicate her life to helping the poor, but a tragic incident changes her life.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsBlanche SweetHenry B. WalthallWalter MillerTwo business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsFraunie FraunholzMarian SwayneA married couple decide to "live separately together."
- DirectorLawrence MarstonEdwin ThanhouserStarsWilliam GarwoodMarie ElineFlorence La BadieA messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczAll summer, the grasshopper sings and plays music with friends. Meanwhile, the ant works hard collecting food and building a shelter. The grasshopper makes fun of the ant's efforts, but when winter comes, things are much different.
- DirectorLéonce PerretStarsLéonce PerretLouis LeubasMaurice LagrenéeThe young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
- DirectorGeorge NicholsStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleCharles AveryLou BreslowAfter rescuing the Police Commissioner's daughter from drowning, Fatty is rewarded with a position on the force, but soon finds that the job isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLionel BarrymoreClaire McDowellCharles Hill MailesA potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
- DirectorWilfred LucasStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel NormandFord SterlingAction scenes of early automobile racing highlight this story of Papa's efforts to thwart Mabel's romantic infatuation with a race car driver.
- DirectorMarcel PerezLuigi MaggiStarsMarcel PerezNilde BaracchiAlfredo BertoneEpisode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam has been stolen and for whose return a large reward will be paid. Not content with settling down to a quiet domestic life, he persuades Sari and his good crew to aid him in finding this white elephant. In the Royal Square of the Capitol of Siam, he reviews the troops which are all comprised of women, which is the custom there. The Prime Minister bids Zingo and his men to visit the Royal Harem. Here they are captured by the troops and are about to be tortured to death when Sari, disguised as a colonel in the army, aids them in escaping. They find the province of Chokuff where the white elephant has been secreted, and catching the Prince making love to Sari, they demand the white elephant. He promises, but traps them all in his dungeon. They are all, but Zingo, placed in barrels with their heads protruding. Zingo files away the bars of his cage, and rolls the barrels by the guards, who are in a stupor from opium smoking. He swims down the river, towing his crew in the barrels. After a fierce encounter with the Prince of Chokuff's army, he attacks the Royal barge in the Blud River, and after a bitter struggle in which he disposes of the entire crew by throwing them overboard, he captures the white elephant and recovers his faithful Sari. He returns the sacred elephant to the King of Siam, and after a big reception by royalty and the populace, Zingo is awarded rich treasures for his noble work. Episode 3: "Zingo in Africa" After returning from Asia with his jolly band of tars, laden with gold and precious stones as a reward for his clever work in recovering the Sacred White Elephant of Siam, Zingo thought he would never again feel the call of the sea, and he didn't for several months. But the wanderlust fever soon returned, and taking his wife as his sole companion, he set out for the wilds of Africa in search of fresh adventures. From this point on, let us follow Zingo down the Nile, and record his hairbreadth escapes. Selecting a likely spot, Zingo and Sari, his wife, make camp. Hearing piercing shrieks just back of their tent, they don bear skins and hasten to the spot in time to prevent the execution of two beautiful native girls by a band of savages. The two girls now become members of Zingo's party, happy to serve their gallant protector. The next day Zingo puts on his armored hunting suit to battle with hungry lions, who have been prowling about the camp. After an hour's terrific struggle with a pair of lions, Zingo returns to find his party gone, and many evidences of a struggle. Suspecting that they have been kidnapped by roving gorillas, Zingo sets off through the forest and eventually comes to the bottom of a large tree sheltering the crudely made gorilla nest. Having a smattering of monkey chatter, he quickly gains an entrance to the nest, and there discovers his wife and the girls more frightened than harmed. The good-natured gorillas listen attentively while Zingo explains that they must proceed up the Nile in their power boat, and they bid the party an affectionate farewell. During an inspection of the Pyramids, Zingo and his party encounter some knavish artists, who drug him and make love to Sari and the native girls. Zingo is boxed up and sold to a London professor as a rare specimen, and does not regain his senses until weeks later. After startling the assembled professors out of their wits, he charters an aeroplane and flies back to Egypt overnight in time to punish the cringing artists and save Sari and her servants from further insult. Then with a last fond look down the Nile River, Zingo and his party board the aeroplane and sail back to Paris. Episode 4: "Zingo's War in the Clouds" Zingo, while working and studying over the prospectus of the Eldorado Mine in his library in Paris, is visited by his faithful crew, who are restless from lying in port and beg of him to put to sea in search of new adventures. Zingo agrees to their proposal, and decides to submit a gigantic scheme to the Eldorado Directorate for working their mine. Arriving in Mexico, he finds the mine operators are entertaining a scheme presented to them by one, Fileas Fogg. Zingo exposes Fogg's crookedness and is awarded the contract for working the mine. In order to study the country around the mines, Zingo and his wife, Sari, erect huts in a nearby river to live in. Fogg, enraged at Zingo for exposing him, with the aid of a savage Indian tribe, attacks Zingo in his river home, and after a thrilling encounter, captures Zingo and Sari. They are bound hand and foot and told they are to be executed the next morning. A pretty Indian girl sets Zingo free in the night, and rides off with him. Zingo calls on the Federal army and is honored by being given the rank of commanding officer, After reviewing his troops and submarine guards. Zingo attacks Fogg's troops, who use chloroform bombs and a special pneumatic sucker to repel his army. Zingo's submarine troops attack Fogg's deep water divers and after a severe encounter in the depths, Zingo's men are victorious. Vanquished under the sea, Fogg takes refuge in a huge motor balloon with Sari still in his power. After a most thrilling battle in which a dozen types of balloons are used, Zingo's dirigible manages to catch Fogg, and after transferring Sari, he cuts the ropes suspending the basket from the bag, and Fogg drops into eternity. Zingo sights his yacht directly below him and by lowering a rope and making it fast to the mast, they all descend and are joyously received by the crew. Zingo promises all to return home after settling up his business affairs in Mexico.
- DirectorJohn Randolph BrayStarsJohn Randolph BrayMargaret BrayAn artist draws a dog who comes to life and eats a plate of sausages.
- DirectorWallett WallerStarsCrissie BellE. Holman ClarkHubert WillisA Martian is sentenced to visit Earth to cure a selfish man.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsCyril GardnerMildred HarrisFrank BorzageWhen the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he's wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He manages to escape and deliver an important message to his commanding officer, but loses his life in the process.
- DirectorKarl ValentinStarsKarl ValentinKarl Valentin gets a new desk one of which absolutely does not fit his needs. He tries to solve the problem in some really strange ways.
- DirectorCarl FroelichWilliam WauerStarsGiuseppe BecceOlga EnglManny ZienerThe story of the great German composer, from his childhood through his great triumphs in orchestral and operatic music.
- DirectorLaurence TrimbleStarsJohn BunnyJames PriorSidney HuntMr. Pickwick arrives in a hackney cab to his friends Mr. Tupman, Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle, who are waiting for him to start their new expedition. The cabby isn't content with the fare, and starts a fight with Pickwick. A fellow named Jingle intervenes, and stops the quarrel. Pickwick invites Jingle to join them on the Rochester coach. When they arrive to Rochester, Pickwick invites him to dine with them at the Bull, where they are staying. During the dinner all except Tupman and Jingle fall asleep. The two of them head for the ball, but first they need a change of apparel for the purpose. Tupman borrows Winkle's uniform, and gives it to Jingle. After the ball Jingle escorts the widow Mrs. Budger to her carriage. The jealous Dr. Slammer feels rejected, and challenges him to a duel the following day. Next morning Winkle, now wearing his uniform himself, is mistaken as the man who had insulted Dr. Slammer, and is brought to the duel. In the last second Dr. Slammer recognizes the mistake. Back at the Bull Jingle slips away, when seeing Dr. Slammer together with Pickwick and his friends.
- DirectorKenean BuelStarsGuy CoombsAnna Q. NilssonMayme KelsoNowhere on earth will gossip spread on speedier wings than in a country village. Consequently, when Mary Lane, the schoolmistress, affianced to the minister, is seen carrying a child in her arms concerning which she will tell nothing, her character is soon torn to tatters. And foremost among her traducers are Mrs. Wolf, the village gossip, and her son Joe, both pillars of the church. But the child is the daughter of Sarah, a village girl whom Mary prevented from putting an end to her misery. Mary undertakes to care for the unfortunate girl's child until the mother can make arrangements to leave the village. Mary's silence concerning the child, even when questioned by her sweetheart, causes the village to ostracize her, and she finds that the school door has been closed to her. Her troubles are capped by an order to leave the house where she has been boarding. Learning of the trouble her good angel has brought upon herself, Sarah denounces Joe Wolf. The villagers urge Mary to resume her position as schoolmistress, but the minister announces that he has a better one for her, that of his wife.
- DirectorHobart BosworthStarsHobart BosworthHerbert RawlinsonViola BarryThe cruel captain of a schooner dominates the shipwreck victims he picks up.
- DirectorWinsor McCayStarsWinsor McCayGeorge McManusRoy L. McCardellThe cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
- DirectorGeorge VeditzStarsGeorge VeditzGeorge Veditz, one-time president of the National Association of the Deaf of the United States, outlines the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené PoyenJeanne Saint-BonnetRenée CarlBout de Zan is a very precocious young man! When the circus comes to town, he does what any kid might do in this situation--he steals the circus' elephant!!! Later, he sits on the curb with the elephant and begs coins off people--with a sign saying 'blind since birth'...
- DirectorLucien NonguetStarsMax LinderA man attempts to take a picture of a woman at the beach.
- DirectorLois WeberStarsChester BarnettGrace DarlingPhillips SmalleyEach of three room-mates proposes to the same woman.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsLuitz-MoratGeorges MelchiorAlbert ReusyRetracing the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené NavarreSuzanne GrandaisErnest BourbonAn aristocrat is taken murderous jealousy after seeing his young wife by chance in a movie with another man.
- DirectorMax LinderStarsMax LinderMax has been invited to meet with his in-laws and must dress formally, but each hat he attempts to wear for the occasion gets destroyed.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsFord SterlingDot FarleyNick CogleyAfter his wedding ceremony is interrupted, Krause runs amok in a park while his bride waits forlornly with the minister.
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninStarsPraskovya MaksimovaSofya GoslavskayaIvan MozzhukhinBased on the verse story by Pushkin: Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards officers who pass by her window, and she has one particular favorite. One day, Parasha's mother asks her to hire a cook, and to do so as cheaply as possible. Parasha and her beau soon see a way to use this situation to their own advantage.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsMabel NormandRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleEdgar KennedyFatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsFord SterlingLaura OakleyNick CogleyPerkins likes to fish, and his wife scolds about his lazy habits. She hides her savings in an old stocking, which she conceals under the mattress of the bed. A tramp enters the open window and steals the hoard. She imagines her husband has taken the money and is very angry. A policeman has seen the tramp and gives chase. Hard pressed, he throws the stocking into the river. While the policeman continues his pursuit, Perkins sits down on the sand to fish. The fish are seen nibbling around the hook by clever photography. Perkins thinks he has a bite and pulls up his line, finding the stocking attached to the hook. He throws it into his basket, and goes on fishing. Finally be gets another bite and hauls up an alligator. Thoroughly frightened, he rushes away and plunges into the midst of a score of alligators, and he has a narrow escape from the snapping jaws. The cop and the tramp have an exciting chase and fight, and the strong arm of the law drags the hapless wretch back to the Perkins home. Mrs. Perkins sees the stocking in the fish basket and brings it out. The tramp convinces them of his innocence, and Perkins is indignant to think his wife should suspect him of taking her money, but she finally cajoles him into forgiveness.
- DirectorFranz HoferStarsPaul MeffertMia CordesManny ZienerTheir eyes heavy with grief, Edith and Violet, dancers, return from the funeral of their sister, Grace. They find a letter marked, "To be opened after my burial," which encloses a photograph. This, the dead sister identifies as the man who has wronged her and through his falseness has brought her to her death. Her request is that her sisters seek him out and avenge her. Strangely enough, she omits to mention his name and address. Conjuring before them the image of the beloved departed, Edith and Violet swear to find the unknown and wreak their worst upon him. Assuming new names to aid their search, the sisters are engaged to dance in a music hall. Here comes Viscount Henry, and a party of friends. This count is peculiarly attracted by the mysterious masked sisters. He asks the manager to introduce him. Violet's beauty is the source of particular attraction. The other sister fears danger and recalls to her her sister's fate. This count persists, although a likeness to the dead Grace, to whom he once promised marriage, causes him uneasiness. Edith, calling upon the viscount to learn the purpose of his attentions, accidentally finds her late sister's portrait. Returning with the portrait of the viscount the sisters compare the one which the sister had enclosed in her last letter. They are identical. Edith reminds Violet of their oath of vengeance. It falls to Edith's lot to execute the oath. She goes to the viscount's house and confronts him with his guilt. He orders his servants to arrest her. She escapes. Keenly anxious, the other sister, Violet, comes to the house about this time. She is daunted by the onrush of the pursuers who are chasing her sister. Mistaking Violet for Edith, they pursue the former, and a stern and exciting chase it is. Edith, in the meantime, returns to the house, where she meets the Viscount, now unprotected by his servants. A shot from Edith's revolver, and a long fall down a secret passage ends his evil life.
- DirectorFrank BealStarsEdwin CareweJean ThomasVirginia MannA dramatization of the methods in which young women are abducted or otherwise procured for prostitution.
- DirectorMax MackStarsAlbert BassermannEmmerich HanusNelly RidonA man has an accident while out riding his horse one day. He soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
- DirectorCharles BrabinStarsWadsworth HarrisMarc McDermottMargery Bonney ErskineWhile their degenerate descendant sleeps, ancestral portraits come alive and admonish him.
- DirectorHarold M. ShawStarsWilliam WestHerbert PriorGeorge LesseyThe mining community of Bear Track Gulch must adapt its ways when it receives its first female visitor.
- DirectorC.J. WilliamsStarsFrank A. LyonsIda WilliamsWilliam BechtelHerr Müller needs to travel across town, but he runs into difficulties because he cannot understand English.
- DirectorJay HuntStarsJ. Barney SherryMildred HarrisFrank BorzageMildred loves her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, but her new stepmother wants her to be rid of his influence, because of his drinking.
- DirectorChristy CabanneD.W. GriffithStarsRobert HarronW. Chrystie MillerDorothy GishOftentime it has been proved that the own children of a family have proved less loving and considerate than those who have been adopted. And so it was in the case of the adopted brother of this family. He became the sole support, while the old gray-haired father sat by the fire, the young daughter looked after the house and the degenerate brother went off to the saloon with his questionable companions. The money for his debauches was often supplied by the adopted young brother. The brother has just left for the saloon, and the adopted son follows him to the village, just in time to see the drunken crowd throw a stranger out of the saloon. He is jestingly known as the "book-writer," and his drunken debauches are the talk of the good people and the abuse of those of his kind. The boy befriends the author by taking him to his cabin. Here while he sleeps off his drunken stupor, the boy reads some of the manuscripts lying on the table. When the author awakens the boy seeks to encourage him into a fresh start and begins to arouse new courage in the writer. Meanwhile back in the saloon there is another fight. A drunken farmer coming out is met by one of his former hands who demands the pay that is coming to him. The farmer underpaid the man. There is a struggle between the two and a large roll of bills is displayed. The degenerate brother and his friends coming out of the saloon see the money and decide to follow the man and rob him. They do this. The boy returning home from the author's cabin comes upon them and is an unwilling witness to their crime. They see him, and pursuing him into the nearby bushes they threaten and abuse him until he agrees to keep silent. As he is passing the sheriff's house he sees the man who had been robbed on the porch while the hand who had previously quarreled with him is also there and being accused of the crime. A strong sense of rebellion against his degenerate brother arises in the boy's mind. All his life the other man has made people suffer. The boy decides to stand by the truth and he goes to the sheriff and tells him the true story of the crime. Thus the degenerate brother and his friend are brought to justice. Some time later while they are working on the stone heap not far from the prison a fight arises between an unruly prisoner and a guard. It is an opportunity they have long been looking for and they make good their escape. Successful in evading the guards, they hide under a rocky cliff. Presently upon the height above they see two men fighting; one renders the other unconscious and the two convicts see in this a chance to cover their own tracks. They steal up behind the two men and rob them of their clothes. In their new garb their first thought is for vengeance on the adopted brother who had been the cause of all their suffering. They seek him at the home, but he is bidding goodbye to the author, who is leaving that locality, a changed man, due entirely to the boy's influence. They intimidate the girl into telling his whereabouts, but on their departure she goes to the house to find the boy. She meets him on the street returning from the author. The two convicts, however, had seen him from a distance, and jumping on two horses they find by the roadside they follow in quick pursuit. The girl runs for the sheriff and the chase continues. The author on the outside of the town, however, had stopped to rest. The boy, followed by the two convicts, pass by on their horses. He takes in the situation at a glance and following after the two he reaches them just as they are about to fall upon the boy. In the struggle he kills one and he himself is shot by another. The other convict falls into the hands of the sheriff. Thus the good done another returns to the boy and frustrates the evil design that was to be perpetrated against him for the price of a life.
- DirectorC.J. WilliamsStarsFrank A. LyonsMargery Bonney ErskineGertrude McCoyA farmer's daughter helps a farmhand win the heart of a cook by convincing him to serenade her, with unexpected results.
- DirectorYevgeny BauerPyotr ChardyninStarsDora CitorenaAndrey GromovAleksandr KheruvimovA man named Koko decides to rent out his uncle's apartment rooms to a variety of different colorful characters.
- DirectorUrban GadStarsAsta NielsenMax LandaCharly BergerNelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
- DirectorAllen RamseyStarsGeorge BallardViola DanaEdna FlugrathCharacters from various nursery rhymes sing together.
- DirectorHay PlumbStarsWalter RinghamJohnston Forbes-RobertsonS.A. CooksonThe opening scene is in Elsinore, where a ghost is seen by the sentinels keeping guard on the battlements of the castle. This is related to Hamlet by his friend Horatio, who describes the spirit as much resembling the late King of Denmark, his deceased father, whom his Uncle Claudius is suspected to have murdered in order that the latter might usurp his throne. Uncle Claudius also married the queen, the mother of Hamlet, within a month after. Hamlet, moved by the narration of Horatio, determines to watch for the next appearance of the ghost. It is seen again at midnight, discloses itself to Hamlet as his murdered parent and relates to him the cruel circumstances of his cruel murder by the king, his uncle, and calls upon Hamlet to avenge it. In order to accomplish this purpose, Hamlet feigns madness, especially in his conduct towards Ophelia, daughter of Polonius, with whom he is enamored. Hamlet engages some players who enact a scene in the presence of the king and queen which displays the murder of his father, purposely to try the king. Claudius, on beholding this, stung by his conscious guilt and fearful of some outward event, determines to rid himself of his nephew by sending him to England. This project is aided by Hamlet, killing Polonius. whom he mistakes for the king and who was concealed behind the arras to listen to the conversation between the queen and her son, who had demanded an interview, Hamlet is by an accident made prisoner by some pirates as he is on his way to England but escapes and unexpectedly returns to Denmark. Previously, he discovers that the ambassadors are instructed by the king's letters to cause him to be put to death on his arrival in England. These letters he exchanges for others containing the same directions for the deaths of the ambassadors. During his absence, Ophelia, distracted through her father's death and her own misfortune, destroys herself, and her brother, Laertes, urged by false rumors concerning his father's demise, rebels against the king, but he abandons his intention on being told that Hamlet committed the deed. A stratagem is evolved by the king in which Laertes basely consents to kill Hamlet by secret means. Claudius wagers six Barbary horses against six French swords with Laertes that in a dozen passes he does not exceed Hamlet by three. Hamlet consents to make a trial and is first wounded by Laertes, who has treacherously used a poisoned weapon. In a scuffle they change swords and Laertes is himself wounded by the same deadly rapier. The king had prepared a poisoned chalice with which he determined to end Hamlet if Laertes failed. In the contents of this, the queen, unconscious that it is drugged, pledges Hamlet and is poisoned. Laertes, in the agony of death, confesses his own perfidy and accuses the king, and Hamlet, with the sword of Laertes, revenges himself by stabbing Claudius. The film concludes with the news of the death of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern through letters forged by Hamlet, and a eulogium oh the unfortunate prince by his friend Horatio and the choice of young Fortinbras for King of Denmark.
- DirectorAlfred MachinStarsNicolas AmbrevilleBalthusArthur Devère
- DirectorRollin S. SturgeonStarsCharles BennettMary CharlesonMyrtle GonzalezWhile plowing his fields one day, farmer John Cameron notices that his horse Jerry looks sick, so he stops work and takes the team up to the barn. He looses Jerry and lets him go into a loose box while he puts his other horse into his stall as usual. Cameron finds that Jerry is in bad shape, and at once he sets off to see a veterinary surgeon who gives him medicine, but doesn't come to see what's actually wrong with Jerry. That same morning, John's daughter Julia receives a reply from the principal of the School of Arts and Sciences to a letter she had written, asking the cost of a course she wishes to take. She has long hoped to get something better than a college education, and has been saving all the money she could make on her chickens so she can afford it. Her frivolous-minded older sister Bessie already attends the school, but their parents who also have several younger children, cannot afford to send Julia as well. Julia has invested much work and self-denial to save what she has, and now she's overjoyed to learn hat she has just enough to put her through. t That night, Jerry dies. Cameron despairs because Jim, Jerry's teammate, is old and not strong enough to plow alone. Unless Cameron is able to get his seed into the ground and reap the harvest, he will be unable to meet the mortgage payment that is due in the autumn. Both he and his wife are greatly distressed, for it looks like their work of years in improving the farm will all be wasted. Knowing this, Julia decides to forego her college course and offer them the money so they can buy a new horse. This is difficult; she has long dreamed of her new life. The sight of her frivolous sister, who does not seem to realize what opportunities she has, only makes her loss more painful. At first her father will not accept the money, knowing of the dream of his daughter's heart, but at length she persuades him to do so, all the time wearing a smiling face as though it means nothing to her. Truly it is such commonplace sacrifices as these that demand the highest courage.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsDarwin KarrFraunie FraunholzBlanche CornwallThe first story begins with a young and pretty girl named Isabelle sitting upon a hill. It is then that she is attacked by Pedro. And following the common thematic trajectory of the time, Isabelle is then rescued by the kind and brave medical student who spends his time as a minister for the poor, Alonzo. Pedro is insistent on revenge and applies to the local monastery where Alonzo works in order to frame him. He hopes to frame him for the mysterious and sudden disappearance of the church's jewels. The frame ends immediately after Pedro plants the jewels in Alonzo's home and the monks are quick to punish Alonzo and Isabelle.
- DirectorEnrico GuazzoniStarsGianna Terribili-GonzalesAmleto NovelliIgnazio LupiAfter the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.
- DirectorMax LinderStarsMax LinderStacia NapierkowskaBefore he descends into a real Spanish bullfighting arena, Max practices in his Paris apartment with a cow in his bedroom.
- DirectorMax ReinhardtStarsPaul DavidsonErika De PlanqueWilhelm DiegelmannNymphs and gods and their foul play.
- DirectorCarl GregoryStarsHarry BenhamEthyle CookeLeland BenhamAn Immigrant has come to the United States and is sponsored by a relative. He takes him to find employment and show him how the American work is protected by showing different types of safety equipment.
- DirectorFrancisco SantosStarsJaime CardosoOscar Araújo CostaGraziela DinizThis is the oldest Brazilian movie of fiction not completely destroyed, but unfortunately there are only a few fragments.
- DirectorLéonce PerretStarsMarie DorlyValentine PetitA doctor on his way to save a seriously ill child gets caught in a gin trap, and amputates part of his own hand to complete his mission.
- DirectorÉmile CohlA witch, upset with a man who yelled at her, places a curse on his box of matches that turns him into a skeleton.
- DirectorEugene C. Clarke
- DirectorJoseph DelmontStarsFred SauerIlse BoisJoseph DelmontReluctant to believe that his brother has committed suicide, Gerhard Bern travels to Rotterdam with a detective, and helped by the consul and his charming daughter Ilse he'll try to find the truth about a secret society his brother was connected with. When another member is found dead his suspicions grow even stronger. Both men had insurance policies.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsKenneth WareReginald SheffieldLen BethelA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- DirectorLucius HendersonStarsFlorence La BadieJames CruzeWilliam GarwoodA romantic tale from Shakespeare's late career, concerning the trials of the virtuous Princess Imogen.
- DirectorAlbert CapellaniStarsHenry KraussHenri ÉtiévantMaria VenturaJean Valjean, a good man convicted of a minor crime, escapes from imprisonment and spends the rest of his life running from the vindictive and implacable man of the law, Javert.
- DirectorMax LinderStarsMax LinderLucy d'OrbelGeorges GorbyMax is engaged to a young woman, whose greatest interest in life is her cat. Max is married in due course, but, as a husband, finds himself even less able to cope with pussy's influence. He protests, he storms, but always comes off second best. He orders the servant to hide pussy in the piano. After a feverish search, Mrs. Max is obliged to leave without her. They return home after a delightful visit to their relatives. Max thinks he will try a little music. He tests himself at the piano. then opens the lid of the instrument. Oh, heavens. Pussy is still there, and is surrounded by a progeny that is both numerous and varied. Max hears some unexpected feline airs, and once more has to give way to his wife's pets.
- DirectorHugh FordEdwin S. PorterStarsJames K. HackettBeatrice BeckleyDavid TorrenceKing Rudolf of Ruritania is saved from a coup attempt by the help of his lookalike cousin, who falls in love with the king's fiancee.
- At the beginning of Sumadijska street in the vicinity of Slavija Square on the 11th August 1913, the Serbian victorious army from the Second Balkan War led by the Crown Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic was given a huge welcome by the highest military and political authorities of Serbia and Belgrade, representatives of civil organizations and national institutions, as well as several tens of thousands of people from Belgrade, Serbia and Vojvodina.
- DirectorT. Hayes HunterEdwin MiddletonStarsBert WilliamsOdessa Warren GreyWes JenkinsModeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty.
- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsDomenico GambinoEmilio VardannesBefore he made the landmark epic CABIRIA and launched the strongman Maciste as a movie phenomenon in Italy, Italian filmmaker Giovanni Pastrone directed this imaginative comic short. The title translates to "Stronger Than Sherlock Holmes" and the title is the only place that Arthur Conan Doyle's characters makes an appearance. Emilio Vardannes stars as an everyman who dreams he is an heroic cop on the trail of a criminal. Filled with trick photography, wild sight gags and slapstick action, the pursuit leaves the world of reality to not just walk on water but backflip across the surface of lake and crazy physicality of the final madcap battle defies all law of physics. The wacky comic violence anticipates the cartoon logic of the animated Looney Tunes shorts that arrived much later. - Sean Axmaker [Print courtesy of the EYE Filmmuseum. ]
- DirectorWill LouisStarsEmmeline PankhurstHarriot Stanton BlatchEthel JewettA suffragist exposes a corrupt political boss who had compromised her lawyer fiancé.
- DirectorBarry O'NeilStarsHarry MyersEthel ClaytonRichard MorrisA mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.