1917 Movies

A spring idyll released via Edison's short-lived Conquest Pictures sometime in 1917.

George V and Queen Mary pay a morale boosting visit to the dry docks in the north-east of England in June 1917. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion", and also part of the BFI collection "Tales From the Shipyard".

Pathé production, depicting the activities of two toddlers at the Beach.

The animating of an early American political cartoon.

Lanczy, the son of the handyman of the village falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter. The innkeeper promises his daughter to Lanczy if he is willing to go to war instead of his son.

French Naval Academy students go through training

South African Film

A documentary about life in Cape Cod which shows the streets of Provincetown as they were at the time. Children are featured playing hide and seek, ships with big masts are seen in the harbor and fishermen are filmed mending nets.

Kaiser is a short animated film, directed by the cartoonist Álvaro Marins, the Seth, in 1917. It is considered the first cartoon produced in Brazil.

Documentary featuring the death of bullfighter Florentino Ballesteros.

Footage from Northern Sweden.

Back in 1917 a bunch of revoultionary artists were given a train to go round spreading the word about the revolution. Poets like Mayakovsky and the film maker Dziga Vertov were on that train. Vertov appears at the end of this clip wearing a funny furry hat ush...

Queen Mary and Princess Mary visit women workers at Woolwich dockyard. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

J. W. White's store is poorly-run and losing money. Things improve after he modernizes the store.

A series of war pictures, "Germany and Its Armies of To-day," has been brought to this country by the Germanic Official War Film, Inc., and are now ready for state rights release.

On a military base, we follow the preparation of the Austrian planes and their takeoff to fly over and observe the Italian enemy. The pilot is equipped with a camera and maps. The strategic information collected by the captain is next passed on to staff headqu...