1916 Movies

The second release in the series picks up Mr. Holmes' fellow-travelers at the very brink of the Grand Canyon, just as a train has arrived at the El To...

South African Film

Sail away to a bygone Cornwall in this wistful coastal travelogue.

Fragment | Two good friends – Pengel the writer and Pustervig the trumpeter – live in next-door garrets. When Pengel’s rich uncle announces his immine...

A document of daily life in a Bororo tribe in western Brazil, including the different phases of their funeral rites.

Photo record of people by the titular waterfall. It is known that Hans Berge traveled around Minnesota at this time and therefore this may be his own...

Released on the sixth of March, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Short animal comedy starring chimpanzees as Napoleon and Sally.

Episode of the monthly series of stories from the book Cuore of Edmondo De Amicis. In the town hall there is a solemn ceremony of handing over the med...

'A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.' (Briti...

A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.

Directed by Robert Ellis.

A herd backs into a dusty courtyard. The sheep, on the ground with their four legs bound, are quickly and skillfully shorn. The animals, now without t...

Mr Petterson arrives at Hotel Electric, only to be met with one surprise after another: From clothes hanging themselves up, to people who keep ending...

En route to the west, Mary and Joe Thompson are left orphans through the death of their parents during an Indian raid on their wagon train. Joe manage...

The circus director is trying to make Pelle Jöns stop smoking. After making the director disappear in a smoke cloud, Pelle Jöns draws a women who come...

Released on the 24th of April, 1916. Produced by Burton Holmes.

A newlywed in love finds it hard to leave his wife for work.

Comedy in which Polidor, assumed the pads regenerating, acquires an incredible force.