Films and TV Shows from the 1910s

poster Rigadin in the Balkans
Rigadin in the Balkans
14mn - Comedy
Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to Pathe Freres and talks them into making a movie about him e…
poster The Little Tease
The Little Tease
(2.9/5)
25mn - Drama
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. Bu…
poster Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek
6mn -
The young granddaughter of a banker plays a game of hide-and-seek with her mother, Mabel. After Mabel walks away, the child disappears. A clerk, realizing the time, closes the vault she’d been hiding in. …
poster The Black Circle
The Black Circle
38mn - Crime, Mystery
The Black Circle is a Italian film from the Celio Film company.
poster Broken Ways
Broken Ways
17mn - Western
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give he…
poster Saïda Makes Off with the Manneken Pis
Saïda Makes Off with the Manneken Pis
(2.9/5)
7mn - Comedy
A cheetah runs away from a fair and steals Belgium's national symbol: Manneken Pis.
poster Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
26mn - Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
poster Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
(3.1/5)
120mn - Drama, History
During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian named Lygia, attempting to enslave her. Lygia's pro…
poster All on Account of a Transfer
All on Account of a Transfer
(2.7/5)
11mn -
Herr Müller needs to travel across town, but he runs into difficulties because he cannot understand English.
poster The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Grasshopper and the Ant
(3.4/5)
5mn - Animation, Fantasy
An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper pleads with the ant for shelter and is turned away to die.
poster Seven Ages of an Alligator
Seven Ages of an Alligator
4mn - Documentary
Documentary footage showing the alligator in several stages of growth, from babyhood to a ripe old age; a film taken at an alligator farm in California. In early 1913 as Thanhouser staff and crews were se…
poster A Serenade by Proxy
A Serenade by Proxy
14mn - Comedy, Romance
A farmer’s daughter helps a farmhand win the heart of a cook by convincing him to serenade her, with unexpected results.
poster Her Nephews from Labrador
Her Nephews from Labrador
13mn -
Two boys from Labrador, Canada, visit their aunt in Westcheser, New York. Although it's in the middle of a cold winter in New York, the nephews from Labrador are used to much colder weather and think the …
poster Tragic Error
Tragic Error
25mn - Drama
When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.
poster The Laird of McGillicuddy
The Laird of McGillicuddy
10mn - Comedy
Comedy in which Charles retaliates when Louise breaks off their engagement. Louise breaks off her engagement to Charles. Out of revenge, Charles and his friends turn Kees the milkman into a Scottish lord,…
poster The Ambassador's Daughter
The Ambassador's Daughter
(2.7/5)
14mn -
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
poster Onésime, Post Office Employee
Onésime, Post Office Employee
7mn - Comedy
Users of the postal service aren't very happy that Onésime spends his work time writing love letters to a lovely lady. Understandably, the woman's husband doesn't take it very well either. To escape his w…
poster At Bear Track Gulch
At Bear Track Gulch
(2.6/5)
14mn - Comedy, Western
This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, produced a decade earlier.
poster The Evidence of the Film
The Evidence of the Film
(3.1/5)
15mn - Crime
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's accuser has the police convinced, until...
poster An Unsullied Shield
An Unsullied Shield
17mn - Drama
While their degenerate descendant sleeps, ancestral portraits come alive and admonish him.