1912 Movies

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 t...

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 an...

French short film.

A Italian documentary short.

La Fureur de Mme. Plumette (1912) opens with a sight gag about menstruation but unfolds as a hilarious celebration of unrepressed female anger.

A young boy in a sailor suit plays with three dolls, representing German soldiers. He slowly nods off and in his dreams they come alive.

Based on the play by Isidore Solotarevsky.

Compilation of footage about daily life in the Ottoman Empire and various sights in the capital Istanbul. Shots include an outdoor barber shop, port ‘...

The falls of Piediluco and Marmore, the mountains of water falling from a terrific height into the rivers below. The coneshaped mountains, the delight...

Mrs. Dove has gambling debts. She doesn’t want her husband to know about this, so she pawns her ring to get money. She is invited to an intimate soire...

The recorded funeral of Doctor Alexandre Cassiano do Nascimento. Believed lost.

A Western drama about two brothers who are in love with the same girl. When one of them wrongly thinks she has chosen for the other, he leaves for Mex...

About poultry: from rearing in 'model farms' to packaging. The film contains footage of a model farm (in Jura),fattening of the poultry and offering...

Film of George V's Delhi Durbar, the first attended by a British sovereign. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".