1912 Movies

Comedy short.

Recordings of various wild flowers. A caterpillar crawls on a plant and turns into a pupa. A butterfly emerges from the pupa. It turns out to be a woman and she does a dance. Contains fragments from Gaston Velle's La métamorphose du papillon (1904)

Count von Löwenstein shows Marquis Al Fresco his will, where he bequeaths 1 billion to his daughter Donna Elvira, if she marries the Marquis. The evil Marquis visits Saïd Ali Mohammed, Doctor of Toxicology, where he buys a bottle of poison. When the Count and...

Fruit displayed in color.

A couple receive a letter from their son asking them to come live with him

A comedy in which a man has to get married within an hour so as to get some money. After being rejected twice, one of his friends dresses up as a woman.

Early travelogue.

Based on the 1827 kabuki play Okazaki No Neko, in which a band of wanderers along the Tokaido Road are assailed by a demonic cat-witch, possessed by the spirit of the Cat-Stone.

Shots of the Swiss Alps: farmers posing with goats, alpine flowers, climbing a (snowy) glacier, a man climbs a rock formation in search of Edelweis and the Matterhorn.

French short film.

Cinema Theater Company. Filmed by Jorge Goitizolo.

It all begins with western riders coming down the main street of a town that looks a lot more urban than the usual town you see in western movies, with building facades of stone, even though the streets are dirt.

A newsreel on the Cebu Disaster.

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Onésime, a journalist short on subjects, is he ready to trigger an event in order to write a good story?

Based on the play by Isidore Solotarevsky.

Short comedy about the little boy Fifi who experiences all kinds of adventures.

Recordings of various old crafts in Auvergne such as a coppersmith, ragpicker, wagonmaker, shoemaker, cooper and a 'centennial cobbler'. Further recordings of a local cattle market and a dance called 'Bourrée'.