1912 Movies

A stray bullet accidentally kills a blackmailer.

A danish comedy starring Oscar Stribolt

Short 'reportage' of the statue.

Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson is holding 'Nobby', one of the Siberian ponies accompanying the Expedition to serve as pack animals for the as...

“First” pan in Pannonian Basin and highly likely in the Balkans was created in 1912 by Ernest Bosnjak. The film documented the unveiling of the monument to Ferencz Rákóczi in Sombor and also features a brief tilt shot of the monument itself.

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.

The Italian conquest of the city of Zuara, in Lybia, during the Italo-Turkish war, is described through its most important moments: the landing on the coast, the advance of the soldiers in the desert, the raising of the flag, the long march towards the oasis t...

The president of a state bank, guilty of malfeasance bribes the District Attorney to suppress the case. The DA’s secretary takes a photograph of the moment when a considerable sum of money changes hands extorting his employer. The dissolute secretary makes adv...

For centuries Tunisia was the leading producer of Mediterranean commercial sponge, which was one of the country’s most important export goods. When, in 1911, Albert Samama Chikli travelled to Libya to film the Italian-Turkish war from behind the Ottoman front,...

Footage shot during Japanese Army Lieutenant Nobu Shirase’s second Antarctica expedition.

Cinema Theatre Company.

Crowds watch the funeral cortege passing through Thorndon. The Marist priest, Charles Venning, died in a motorcycle accident in Hill Street, Thorndon on 21 November 1912. He was driving back to the Catholic presbytery on his motorcycle when he took the corner...

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

International Film Company.

The creative yet debt-ridden inventor Fred must sell his beloved prototype of an aeroplane. Fred’s wife is ill and needs expensive medicine. The buyer is the usurer Frank, who doesn’t understand technology other than a status symbol. Thus, Frank needs a pilot,...

The history of Pieter Spa.

Purzel wants to be a tennis pro and practises at home. But everything starts rotating, and Purzel spins until he is completely dizzy.

Jim Morris, a young prospector, plans a trip into the great desert to search for gold. Before he leaves, Morris places an engagement ring on the finger of Mary, his sweetheart, and she promises to await his return.