1912 Movies

A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth an...

This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand, bu...

While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)

Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suffer because of hubris.

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banish...

Mabel seems to be working ironing dresses in a dress shop when something catches her attention in a newspaper. Apparently, it is an ad on becoming a d...

Count Fernand De Keramic plots against his niece in order to acquire her wealth to pay his debts.

Western. A woman is attacked by Garcio but is saved by a casual cowboy, who in turn seems to be nabbed by Garcio and his friends.

A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone.

The movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon as Helen climbs down the ladder, her parents, played b...

Polidor dreams that he has become a member of the death club, a society for those tired of life. The loser of a card game must commit suicide, and Po...

A mother is so shocked by her daughter's almost being overrun by a car that she needs internment in a sanatorium. The doctor, in love with her, takes...

In India, Leslie Adams dreams of a priestess who is turned into a snake by Karma, the high priest. While touring a ruined temple, he finds the snake,...

Early Balkan footage.

Tired of living alone with his two motherless daughters. Jones decides to take unto himself a wife. She is a charming woman and his daughters readily...

A romantic comedy about two lovers; the parents of the girl forbid them from being together.

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill...

A short romantic drama in which a captain and his wife are separated by a shipwreck. The woman ends up on a desert island with another man, and they h...

A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby village. But the cowboys fight back and mortally...

Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her "ideal". But Mr. August's refusal to get mixed up in a street...