1912 Movies

A tragicomedy in which the suicide attempt of the character Bunny is seen by a neighbour, who quickly calls for help.

After reading a pamphlet urging everyone to go to war, Werner falls into disagreement with his future father-in-law. A number of friends dress up as s...

The daughter of a wealthy man imagined she was deeply in love with her father's chauffeur, and demanded she be allowed to marry him. When her father v...

Brig Harris, a renegade Mexican, casts off his sweetheart, telling her he is tired of her. Harris and a pal now find that a shipment of ore from the C...

Tontolini makes a mistake

Scorpions are among the creepier land animals, and this nature short from Eclair lets its audience see that for themselves, with their scuttling gait,...

Filmed by Herbert G. Ponting during Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913),this 1912 documentary presented British...

The Dytiscus is a species of the water beetle and they are abundant in stagnant water. The pictures give an unusually accurate idea of the development...

Cunégonde series, French comedy shorts

Garden scenes in Villa d'Este, near Rome.

Buck and Jeff, cousins, are the last two males left in the McCall clan to continue the feud between the McCalls and the Buckners. Jeff falls in love w...

For centuries Tunisia was the leading producer of Mediterranean commercial sponge, which was one of the country’s most important export goods. When, i...

French silent film.

A drama set among the Polish nobility of the 18th century. The sets, furnishings and magnificent national costumes faithfully recreate the period in w...

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

A documentary about Robert Stephanson's 1911 balloon voyage. The journey went from Bislett to Braenmoen in Solor. This film is considered lost.

This footage shows one male and two female patients walking back and forth on the Salpêtrière grounds. Early medical film, likely presenting diagnosti...

A debtor's chance appearance in a newsreel proves he could not have shot his father.