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- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges Méliès1. Cain and Abel. The First Crime. 4000 B. C. - The first scene represents the killing of Abel, by his brother Cain. When he had executed his horrible crime, Cain, overcome with remorse, concealed himself in a lonely and unfrequented place, for he imagined that he was pursued by justice and vengeance. The last part of this scene is a beautiful and faithful reproduction of Prud'hon's masterpiece, "Justice and Vengeance Pursuing Crime." 2. The Druids. Human Sacrifice. 500 B. C. - After having collected the sacred mistletoe in accordance with the rites of their religion, the Druids invoke the Divine Protection and perform a human sacrifice under the ancient oaks of Old Brittany. 3. Nero and Locust. Slave Poisoning. 65 A. D. - Nero and Locust have a slave poisoned in their presence in order that they may feast their eyes upon his sufferings and, at the same time study the effects of a terrible drug upon the human system. 4. Catacombs of Rome. Persecution of Christians. 200 A. D.- In the Catacombs at Rome, some Christians, in the early days, have taken refuge where they may practice without molestation the mysteries of their new religion and address their prayers to God. Suddenly a Roman cohort invades their hiding place. The soldiers forcibly take possession of the worshipers and lead them away to the Colosseum where they are fed to wild beasts to make holiday for an emperor. 5. Scourging With Cat-O'-Nine-Tails. 1400 A. D. - During the Middle Ages, punishment by whipping was inflicted upon condemned persons in the public squares, amid the laughter and the jibes of a cruel populace. 6. The Gallows Under Louis XI. 1475 A. D. - During the reign of Louis XI., gallows were scattered all over France. So frequent were executions that hardly a day passed without somebody being executed. 7. The Inquisition. The Torture Chamber. 1490 A. D. - About this time, the followers of the Church were administering to recalcitrants those cruel tortures with which romances of the period are enlivened. In refined cruelty, Torquemada, the chief inquisitor of Spain, has never been excelled. 8. A Nocturnal Attack. Lords and Ruffians. 1620 A. D. - In the 17th century, the streets of cities were poorly lighted. Bands of marauders were always skulking about looking for some unprotected victim. This view pictures a spirited encounter in Paris in which robbery was the prime motive. 9. Modern Times. A Street Fight 1906 A. D - In spite of extravagance blighting the streets now-a-days and the superabundance of police, thugs an often sneaking about in the less frequented thoroughfares ready to knock a man down when the policeman's back is turned. This episode is begun when no officer is near but the arrival of officials before the attack is ended making things interesting all around. 10. The Hague Conference. 190; A. D. - This scene is an amusing satin on the Conference at the Hague ii which the delegates urge the limitation of armaments and the disbanding of armies. Confusion reigns in the assembly. The speakers become so angry at not making themselves heard that they start a general rough-and-tumble fight. The session is ended, and the wounded descend the steps of the palace staggering from bruises. 11. The Triumph of the Peace Congress. - The last scene gives an idea of the results of our Peace Conferences . One sees dead and wounded soldiers lying scattered upon a battlefield; and towering over all, the angel of Destruction looms up with her flaming sword and with a gun carriage at her feet.
- DirectorArmand BourAndré CalmettesStarsAlbert LambertPaul MounetAlbert DieudonnéThe opening scene of this sacred picture shows the interior of the home of Mark, where Jesus and his apostles have gathered to eat the Paschal lamb. The sacred feast is spread and the little band take their places at the table with the Master in the center, who addresses his friends in words of love, Baying: "These things I command you, that you love one another!" Jesus then takes a towel and basin and sinks upon his knees to wash the feet of his apostles. Some of them object that the Master should humble himself so, but Jesus insists in order to teach them a lesson in humility. Coming to Judas, who is seated at the extreme end of the table with a sneering look on his face, Jesus bends and bathes his feet, but the latter lends himself with bad grace to the humble ceremony. The mercenary creature is ill at ease and drops his purse on the floor, whereupon Jesus picks it up and hands it back to him. Judas then opens the purse and shows his brethren how impoverished he is, for it is empty. Jesus again takes his place at the table, where, after breaking some bread, he passes it around, saying, "This is my body;" then taking a cup of wine he drinks and passes it also, saying. "This is my blood!" During the meal a bitter anxiety seems to hang over the little band, and Jesus is so deeply wrung with agony that he turns to those about him and says: "Verily, verily, 1 say unto you that one of you is about to betray me!" Immediately there is great consternation among the band and each apostle asks: "Lord is it I?" Even Judas joins with the others with inconceivable heartlessness and effrontery, asking also, "Lord is it I?" To which the Master makes answer: "Yes, it is you who shall betray me!" The other apostles on hearing this start in anger towards Judas, but Jesus, raising his hand, quells the disturbance, whereupon Judas arises from the table and defiantly leaves the room. At the approach of midnight. Jesus and his apostles leave the house and make their way to the Garden of Olives, where Jesus goes to pray. Judas, knowing that the Master would be there, manages to get to the garden first with the officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. After closing his bargain and receiving the money for his part in the treachery, Judas instructs the multitude to hide and come forth in due time and seize the man whom he shall kiss upon the cheek. Presently Jesus approaches with his apostles, and forthwith Judas greets him, saying: "Hail, Master!" and kisses him. The soldiers rush out from their hiding place and seize Jesus, and take him prisoner, while his apostles flee in terror. Judas is now seen standing with remorse and terror written on his countenance, and, as the soldiers retire with their innocent prisoner, the traitor falls in agony to the ground. Suddenly raising himself on his elbow he begins counting over the money he received for his part in the affair. Then, realizing all at once the enormity of his crime, the traitor becomes seized with indescribable remorse and writhes on the ground in agony, laughing, crying and praying to God for mercy. In his fancy he sees a vision of Jesus coming to him with compassion in his eyes and extending his hands in forgiveness. Unable to hear the terrible remorse any longer the traitor takes a rope hanging over a tree branch, slips the noose around his neck and thus ends his miserable existence.
- DirectorFrancis BoggsThomas PersonsStarsHobart BosworthFrancis BoggsA complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His Enemies," and "finis" at the end. This is the oldest known film of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Also, it depicts the oldest known film of the San Diego coast.
- DirectorGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonStarsGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonGladys FieldArthur MackleyJennie Lee and her father are on their way to Golden California, from a little Kansas farm, traveling in a prairie schooner. At the last settlement visited by the two, the old man, who has a weakness for drink, purchases several bottles of whiskey, which he begins drinking when they have made camp for the night. A lone cowboy calls upon them and finds the old man in a jovial mood and cautions him to beware of the hostile tribe of Indians, through whose country they are now traveling. Unmindful of the warning, Lee continues to drink until thoroughly intoxicated, despite the pleadings of his daughter. Suddenly over the brow of a hill a scouting Indian is seen to appear, sees the wagon and the drunken white, and slipping cautiously away, goes to his Indian village, where he informs the other braves of the trespassing settlers. The Indians leap astride their shaggy pones and with was whoops ride off to make short work of the whites. The girl sees them coming and implores her father to get into the wagon, but he refuses and the girl, knowing that she must act quickly if she would save her own life, springs into the wagon, seizes the reins and urges the horses to their utmost speed. After a long and thrilling ride in which the Indians gradually gain on her, she is joined by the friendly cowboy, who sends a crony who was with him, to a neighboring ranch for help. The girl and cowboy race the Indians and pull up at a deserted shack in which they protect themselves against the Indians until the arrival of the ranchmen, who disperse the Indians. The girl expresses her great joy at being rescued and upon proposal of her cowboy protector that she marry him, she readily agrees.
- DirectorQuirino CristianiThe true incident of the German U-Boat which torpedoed an Argentine ship to make Argentina declare war on the Allies.
- DirectorQuirino CristianiArgentinian President Yrigoyen burns Buenos Aires using Jupiter's thunderbolts.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkAlice HollisterJ.P. McGowanCaptain Jasper, a Union officer, is sent on a secret service mission to the Confederate headquarters. Safe through the lines Captain Jasper, disguised as a Commissary Supply Agent, meets old friends who are Northern sympathizers. Visiting Confederate headquarters, information is supplied him by an ally. Suspicion is eventually aroused against the Captain and he is arrested. Pamela, a Southern girl with Northern sympathies, decides to aid the Captain's escape. She bakes a loaf of bread with a hook and cord buried therein. Taking the bread with other delicacies to the Captain's prison she is allowed to present it to him. Being advised of the contents of the loaf of bread the Captain that night gets to the roof of his prison, lowers himself to the ground and quickly makes his escape. A month later Pamela receives a letter from the Captain saying, "I am back with my regiment, thanks to you. An opportunity to send this letter through the lines emboldens me also to enclose a ring. Will you wear it, and when the war ends I will come for my bride."
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkGene GauntierJ.P. McGowanThe old musician playing his fiddle in his garret home dreams of his youth and his lost love. As the past unfolds itself he sees his sweetheart, Dolores, forced by her parents to sign a contract of marriage with Don Carlos, and he again reads over in memory her message of farewell: "My on Love, This is my marriage ever, the death day of my soul. I cannot go without one last farewell to you, whom I will never see again. Wait for ma by the lake until you hear the bells chime. Yours in spirit until death, Dolores." Meeting her at the lake as requested, she gives him her old violin, saying, "I have breathed my soul into this violin. Whene'er it plays, it is my soul that speaks." A few days later the tragedy takes place that causes her bereaved parents to withdraw from society and the musician to live in a dream until his work is finished.
- StarsAlice HollisterLeo BergerWhile driving home the cows one evening, a boy decides to go to war. He falls to win his parents' consent as they have already given the lives of two sons to the great cause. The boy, therefore, steals away in the night, stopping to say good-bye to his young sweetheart. In a hotly contested battle, the boy is wounded and taken prisoner. The report of his death is brought to the lonely farm. Upon the aged father devolves the task of driving home the cows. One summer evening as he strolls down the path, tired from his day's labors, he sees the cows coming. Behind them appears the figure of a youth with an empty coat sleeve. Great is the father's joy when he recognizes his son, and happy are the old mother and young sweetheart as they behold the brave lad coming home with the cows.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsGene GauntierRobert G. VignolaAlice HollisterAyub Kashif becomes embittered toward his wife, Fatima, because their union has been childless. He eventually determines to divorce Fatima and free her slave, whom he then will wed. Fatima, who still loves her husband, lives a life of sorrow, praying that her husband's love will return to her. A year later, Allah grants Ayub an heir. Fatima hearing of the event, writes Ayub, requesting that she be allowed to attend his wife as a slave. This request Ayub denies. Four years later, Ayub, with a number of other merchants, departs to take rich merchandise across the desert. While on the journey he is attacked by a dread disease and, according to Turkish custom, it left to die. Fatima, in her dreams, sees that her husband is about to perish. Haunted by the vision, she seeks the wife and begs her to send aid to the suffering Ayub. The former slave, caring only for her personal comfort, laughs at the discarded wife and Fatima, accompanied by two slaves, starts out in quest of Ayub. The fast failing merchant is digging his own grave when Fatima arrives after an exhausting journey across the burning sands of the desert and with a prayer that he be forgiven, Ayub dies in her arms.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkGene GauntierRobert G. VignolaDr. Franklin Cochran practices in Luxor, Egypt, and his vivacious wife. Miriam, is prominent in society affairs. She makes the acquaintance of Mahmud Bey, an Oriental diplomat, who becomes fascinated with the young woman and by artful blandishments so impresses the temperamental wife that she neglects her husband. In a burst of crazed anger the doctor departs for the desert, first making out a will which amply provides for Miriam. Reaching a Bedouin village Cochran trades his horse for a camel and continues across the desert. The scorching sun and sands almost overpower him, but with true instinct the camel finds an oasis, where the unfortunate wanderer falls in a daze. Zenab, a young Egyptian woman, comes to the oasis and discovers the doctor. She summons her tribesmen, who tenderly carry Cochran to their village. When he gains strength the doctor embraces the Mohammedan faith, saying his past is dead and the future offers nothing. He is adopted by the Sheik, the father of Zenab. The doctor labors faithfully with the natives and his friendship for Zenab develops into a warm love, which is reciprocated. The Sheik gives his daughter in marriage to Cochran and they live happily together. There comes a time when Miriam, with a party of tourists, visits the quaint village, and there she discovers her husband. He is horrified at the meeting as he has long since consigned her to the forgotten past. Miriam, repentant, implores Cochran to return to her, but he is firm in his devotion to Zenab. The Egyptian wife sees her husband with the stranger and is lead to believe that she will be deserted. Cochran accompanies Mirian to the edge of the village and then bids her to depart forever from his life. He returns to join Zenab and finds to his horror that the heartbroken girl has killed herself. The doctor's cup of sorrow is now full and, kneeling at the side of his faithful wife, he cries in supplication: "Allah preserve us, for we are but the Dust of the Desert."
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsRobert G. VignolaGene GauntierAlice HollisterAlice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald: "Governess wanted. Young American woman, well educated and speaking French and German, may obtain lucrative position with prominent Egyptian. Fare and expenses will be advanced. Write, enclosing photograph, to Mahmoud Pasha, Sphinx Club, Cairo, Egypt." Answering the advertisement, Alice seven weeks later, secures the position and leaves her New York boarding-house for Egypt. The Pasha meets her at the station in Cairo and she is taken to the harem, where she is introduced to the Pasha's favorite and his children. Within a few days the Pasha shows his hand and Alice finds she is a prisoner in the harem. Writing a note, indicating her peril, she drops it through the shutters. A young American connected with the Consulate, picks up the message and enters the harem only to be overpowered by the eunuchs. Just as the Pasha is about to have him thrown into the lion's den, help arrives from the United States Consulate and the young Americans are released.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkAlice HollisterJ.P. McGowanA gamekeeper's daughter is shot while warning a poacher.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkAlice HollisterJ.P. McGowan
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkAlice HollisterJ.P. McGowanDuring a rest at the harvest dance, Marty is requested to tell of the days when he was young. The good-natured Irishman consents and tells the following story: "In those days we got our larnin' from th' hedge school and whin I grew up, toimes bein' worse, like many another spalpeen I tuk to courtin'. Just about thin Lord Kilhannack, the divil take 'im, took to evictin' his penniless tenants by the way of a little divarsion. Con Hanley made a gallant run wid the news to Father Falvey. His Riv'rince, attimtin' to protict the Morans, was put under arresht for his trouble. Bein' a knowin' lad an' a mimber of the White Boys, I blew the horn as a signal to call the boys together, an' there in the glen we took on the rescue av th' holy man. T'way a grand place for the wurk, but it cost us dear. Wid the Red Coats scourin' th' countryside, His Riv'rince lived for weeks on the food secretly passed him, in the cave where he was hidden. Rewards were posted ivrywhere. A dhirty agent named Michael Dee discovered the hiding place of His Riv'rince an' sold him to th' crown, but Peggy overheard a drunken soldier's boast, and very toimly too, brought the news, an' disguised, the good priest shipped to sea. He kissed the shore of bis native isle and sailed him away to Ameriky. An' tho Frough dear served sivin long years, she's here herself to tell it."
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsJ.J. ClarkGeorge D. MelvilleGeorge P. LesterRobert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes to his rescue, helps him to escape from the prison ship and return to Ireland where he is united with his sweetheart.
- DirectorÉtienne ArnaudStarsDorothy GibsonAlec B. FrancisJulia StuartThe story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- DirectorWilliam K.L. Dickson
- DirectorDhundiraj Govind PhalkeStarsD.D. DabkeAnna SalunkeGanpat G. ShindeThe film opens with a Ravi Varma like tableau showing King Harishchandra, his wife Taramati and his young son. The king is teaching his son archery. They go on a hunt. The king enters an area controlled by the Sage Vishwamitra. Three furies appear before the king caught in flames. The king tries to rescue them. These fairies try to seduce the king into renouncing his kingdom for his love of truth. The king endures much hardship including being banished from his kingdom before a god appears to reassure everyone that the whole narrative was merely a test of the king's integrity.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithThere is no documentation that any film bearing this title was either produced or distributed by Biograph or General or directed by D.W. Griffith at this time. Production may have been suspended before completion or else the film may have been released under a different title. An entirely different film, The Flaming Arrows, was, however released by Pathe in 1911 (q.v.).
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMary PickfordThere is no documentation that a film bearing this title was directed by D.W. Griffith, or was produced by Biograph at this time. It may have been suspended before completion or else released under another title.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMary PickfordBlanche SweetThere is no documentation that any film bearing this title was produced or distributed by Biograph at this time. Either the production may have been suspended before completion or else it was released under a different title, most likely the latter, as A Pueblo Legend (1912) q.v.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonWilfrid NorthStarsCharles RichmanL. Rogers LyttonJames MorrisonEnemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsAnnette KellermanWilliam E. ShayHal De ForestA sultan agrees to help a wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.
- DirectorJ. Gordon EdwardsStarsTheda BaraFritz LeiberThurston HallThe story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsJohn R. CumpsonFlorence LawrenceJeanie MacphersonMrs. Jones is a member of the Ladies' Temperance League, and has invited the sisters of the League to a luncheon at the Jones domicile. She receives a note to the effect that they will accept the invitation upon condition that Mr. Jones is not in evidence, as his views on temperance and theirs do not concur. This intelligence is most felicitous to Jones and he prepares to "beat it." Another note, however, arrives and this is from the caterer, who informs Mrs. Jones that owing to a strike of the Waiters' Union, he is unable to furnish service. Here is trouble. "What is to be done? Ah, I have it. Hubby dear, shall act." And so Mrs. Jones broaches the subject to him. He is indignant. "What, I, the Hon. Edward Everett Jones, play the waiter." But Mrs. Jones cooingly persuades and Jones at last weakens, or rather appears to, for he has suddenly conceived sport in the situation. The maid is dispatched to the costumer's for the waiter's outfit, and Jones, when rigged out, looks the typical garcon. Mrs. Jones is delighted. The door-bell rings and the Amazonian annihilators of Demon Rum arrive. They are ladies with curdled dispositions and complexions of chow-chow. They take their places at the table and set in to have a perfectly lovely time by feeling as miserable as possible. They eat as if it were a duty, not a pleasure. The luncheon is served until it comes to the coffee, when Jones works his dire design. In all the cups, excepting that of his wife, he pours a generous dose of Rum. This the old girls drink with keen relish and ask for more. This time Jones serves them pure unadulterated Rum - in other words, Rum Straight. Those giddy old ladies thaw out and Mrs. Jones is amazed, she, of course, ignorant of the cause of their unseemly conduct. Jones and the maid are in high glee. One old lady so far forgets herself as to try to kiss Jones. This arouses the ire of Mrs. J. who ejects the bunch, and then falls weeping into the arms of Mr. Jones.