One of the few tinted silent films in the Archives New Zealand holdings, this film was part of a series completed by the NZ Government Tourist and Publicity Department. This episode depicts weaving with harakeke and the creation of a piupiu.

Rudall Hayward was just 21 when he began making his first full-length silent movie, My Lady of the Cave. A wistful young clerk (Robert Ramsay, who later tried his luck in Hollywood) falls overboard on a boat trip and washes up on an island. He meets a mysterious woman (Hazel de Montalk) who appears to be a prisoner. The clerk enlists a friend to free his 'cave lady' from her jailer, and they uncover a tragic story.

A manhunt is launched after a woman's suffers a brutal attack. Investigators have their eyes in one man, recently released from prison, who was present in her home.

Though the title of the film has not survived, the title cards have remained intact. The film takes its audience on a tour of the newly built theatre building, designed by Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn. The two-winged landmark was built as an opera house and a concert hall. At the end of the film, the actors and actresses of the time are showing off for the cameraman. Whether Johannes Pääsuke is the author of this film is questionable. It is possible the Parikas brothers, photographers from Tallinn, actually shot the film.

In the film, one can see the Czarist town life at its peak. The film, with a positivist take, seems to be shot in the early spring of 1912. One must appreciate the views seen in the film since most of the buildings were either destroyed in the war, demolished, or re-built.

Snow-covered streets in Tartu. Snow removal. Views from a moving train of the snowplows and snow removal.

The White Flower Day in Tartu, organized to support tuberculosis patients, takes place on May 3, 1913 at Raeplats, where white paper daisies that can be pinned to the chest are sold and donations are collected.

Film about historical and architectural monuments. Views of Tartu (ruins of the Cathedral, Inglisild, etc.), Vooremäe hillfort, ruins of Helme, Härgmäe, Karksi castles, Tarvastu church, views of Viljandi (castle ruins, lake), views of Paide (church, castle ruins, etc.), views of Narva (Ivangorod, Puusild, Hermann Castle, Joala waterfall, Kreenholm factory), rafting logs on the Narva River.

With a few exceptions, the film consists of picturesque vistas, as referred to in the title. What brings the snapshots to life is the beauty of nature — the springtime Southern Estonian landscape. The film introduces Vällamägi, Haanja, the 318-metre Munamäe Hill, Lake Vaskna, River Võhandu, and the ruins of the Vastseliina Bishop Castle. The end with the church of Räpina is somewhat out of context.

The film footage consists of three parts: a Farman-type biplane flying in the sky (colored brown 00:28-00:44); a landed biplane from which the pilot and a female passenger climb out (colored brown frames 00:44-01:46); the pilot chatting with journalists and the young lady approaching the biplane (reddish frames 01:46-02:31).

'Journey Through Setomaa' is about the historic Estonian region Setomaa, presently in Põlva and Võru Counties of South Eastern Estonia and Pechorsky District and Pskov Oblast of Russia. The film travels through Petseri Monastery, religious occasions, church in Värska, spring fair, Crucession, Easter customs, crop harvesting in Matsuri, brick factory in Saboldi, Võõpsu hamlet, and seto folk dancing. The piece is considered to be the first Estonian ethnographic film.

A poor parish buries an old icon and spreads rumors of a prophetic dream. When the icon is "discovered," it is believed to have healing powers, attracting crowds and increasing Pankrat’s income. A rival priest complains...

Christian meets sweet Pratermizzi at the Viennese fair but is entranced by a dancer who never performs without a golden mask.

Sal and Tottie are sacked from their jobs in a laundry, then go on a picnic with friends Skinny and Spud. Skinny and Spud are both romantically interested in Sal but she spurns their attentions. Sal is rescued in the surf Coogee Beach by wealthy lifeguard Basil Stanton and taken to his family home in Potts Point to recuperate. Sal and Basil fall in love and get married. Spud and Skinny are arrested for drunkenness and reform. Spud marries Tottie and Skinny marries a woman from the Salvation Army.

In 1913 early French film pioneer Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset died abruptly at the age of 51. His filmography of about 60 titles includes all film genres but is today mostly lost. He was particularly interested in detective or crime genres and with series like Nick Carter and Zigomar he is considered as one of the creators of the serial. The spectacular siege of Jules Bonnot's Gang at Choisy-le-Roi near Paris on April 28th 1912 inspired Jasset to make this 'Bandits en automobile'. French audiences recognized immediately the resemblances with the actual Bonnot Gang, a reason for which the film was prohibited in many cities.

An artistic free-form exercise in storytelling using stylized photographic images juxtaposed in rhythmic variation.

Two inventors propose a machine for easy soap packaging while an evil capitalist tries to destroy the machine.

A child stops her father, a sacked thief, from shooting his employer.

A man (Arroyo Carrillo) is sent to Europe on a diplomatic mission. The ship on which he travels is sunk by a German submarine. In Mexico, his girlfriend Lupita (Cota) receives a telegram with the news and looks for relief in La Virgen de Guadalupe, a saint patron of catholic Mexicans. After reading a book about the Virgin legend, Lupita falls asleep. The next morning, she receives good news, her boyfriend is alive. Together they go to La Villa del Tepeyac (a church devoted to La Virgen de Guadalupe) and thank for the miracle.

An Englishman commits adultery with a Sicilian woman.

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

A flight under Prague’s Railway Bridge in July 1919 and its tragic consequences: the death of the director of the cinematographic department of the YMCA in Prague.

The first film directed by influential German-born silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is delightfully reminiscent of a Valentine’s Day card come to life. Two lovers interact with an ornate background that shifts and changes in tandem with their own balletic movements as they express their feelings for each other.

When the communists decide to renovate the city and try to demolish a badly positioned church, the religious citizens decide to fight for what is holy to them.

At the "Pupky" station, an opportunity occurs: two illegal passengers - guinea pigs - have to be disembarked from one of the trains, since animals cannot be transported in a general carriage. The head of the station Pryvychkin tries to help the animals, but the situation is beyond his control. The audit committee sets out to investigate the unpleasant incident... This witty satirical comedy, in which bureaucracy, bourgeoisie, and provincialism are mocked, continued the development of the domestic comedy genre in Ukrainian Soviet cinema.

An artistic love ode to the town of Santa Fe in the form of a day in the life of this western art community in its creative heyday. Scenes from a time when Santa Fe still had vestiges of the Old West.

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

A short film by the Manaki brothers that documents the celebration of Epiphany in Bitola.

A short film by the Manaki brothers which documents a Wedding in Bitola.

A short film by the Manaki brothers which documents a celebration with slogans in Greek.

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.

Amor omnia is the story of forbidden love. The culprit is Carl, the spineless son of the Örn family and the father of Carl-Johan. Carl beds his parents' maid Mary who is then promptly sent away to give birth to the unwanted baby Margaretha. Carl-Johan and Margaretha become childhood playmates at the Hanko Spa without knowing they are relatives...

Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.

A comedy starring Nina Shaternikova, The Skotinins is loosely based on the 18th century play The Minor by Denis Fonvizin. In it, the upper class is shown as both depraved and stupid, engaging a variety of absurd, over-the-top follies.

Drama about a young man blinded by love.

Orphan Enid White becomes the ward of a cruel man. She gets close to her guardian's wife and also to his son, who secretly comes to visit when his father is not around. One evening Enid is whipped by the patriarch, and hours later he is found dead. An investigation follows.

The escape of a man during the Spanish Inquisition.

Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natures of both men--one noble and kind, the other a greedy, ruthless beast.

Spoiled little Cretinetti almost destroys Christmas....

Two men, rescued from the elements at different times by a father and daughter who live in a remote spot in the forest, become bitter rivals for the girl's love and eventually agree to a river-race to decide the issue between them.

October reflects a general attempt in Russia to sustain the frenzy and dynamism of revolutionary fervour. This attempt increased in scale and ambition as they pushed it further, resulting in the theatricalisation of life. In other words, the boundaries between real events and fabricated drama became blurred as the portrayal of life became more exaggerated. It is important to remember that the film does not represent what actually happened during the 1917 Revolution, but is rather an adaptation.

A designer is in love with a model, who ends up creating her own fashion house, with the help of a millionaire who is also in love with her.

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.

Fred, a young British sailor who accidentually finds himself in the USSR and after a number of comic adventures he, attracted by Soviet youth enthusiazm, goes to take part in Dneprostroy (building of Dnepr power station).

Hrafnildur, also known as “Hadda Padda", and her sister Kristrun are spending the summer in scenic Breidabol with Hadda Padda’s fiancé, Ingolf. A pleasant time is had by all, until Kristrun and Ingolf can deny their love no longer and Ingolf breaks up with Hadda Padda. Deeply wounded, she plots her revenge. (Stumfilm.dk)

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

An educational film about the technological and artistic development of cinematography.

The son of a factory owner, Freddie Wanninger falls in love with the medical student, Ada Haller. After their marriage, her career as a famous obstetrician takes off, leaving him feeling neglected. He begins an affair with Emmi, who becomes pregnant, and Ada must deliver the child.

A restored 24-minute fragment survives of this Harry Piel adventure feature.

Eugenie, a young girl with a delicate temperament, runs away from the sordid cabaret run by her mother. Helped by a providential coincidence, she became a model in a fashion house on the Champs-Élysées.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

The lighthouse keeper has an attack while cleaning the light. He makes his unsteady way down to the living quarters and collapses. While his wife tends him, their children turn the lights that guide ships through saf passage by hand.

In the garden in front of the house, the children Draga, Bozena and Vladimir play alone. In the second frame, their mother Matilda joins them, they move closer and further away from the camera in the game.

Scenes from a market fair at Ljutomer.

It shows local people leaving the church after the Sunday mass in Ljutomer.

The cross at the stream is a tragic place for the Potocký family. Beneath it, Joza, disappointed in her love for Mikeš Potocký and married against her will to his brother Franík, plunges a knife into her heart and lays a curse on the name Potocký. Under the cross at the stream many years later, a fratricide takes place when two rival brothers fight for the love of one woman. However, the cross is also the place where Štěpán meets Eva, the foster daughter of Dolanský the miller. She falls in love with Štěpán and sets her heart on breaking the curse laid by the great grandmother of the family. She succeeds in doing so thanks to the strength and devotion of her love which overcomes her husband's estrangement, his infidelities and brutality.

Four weary old bachelors are driving back from a party. They fall asleep on the divan and they dream that fairies are dancing around them — a symbol of nuptials. In the morning, however, they swear that they will never marry. Hardly a year goes by and one of them, engineer Hanč, breaks his promise. He gets an invitation to another bachelors' party and he tries to hide it from his wife Běla...

Children dig for clams on the beach

While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who trap them in their cabin. Billy rigs a keg of gunpowder and tricks the Indians into entering the cabin, while he and his sister escape.

The young front-line soldier Ando, who has just returned from World War I to his native village, inspires his villagers to fight against "class enemies."

A jeremiad against intemperance, jazz music, and abortion, set on a train filled with unrepentant sinners hurtling toward damnation.

Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for her boyfriend, Milton. After being expelled from home, she finds out her lover is married. Unhappy with her life, she finds a place in a boarding house and tries to find a job, with no success. Tired and starving, she ends up passing out in the street, being helped by a passer-by, who leaves her at writer Flávio Martins's house, a man torn between the proposal of an arranged marriage, an old flame, and the new guest.

Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love."

Oversized characters populate this drama about a jealous fisherman who kidnaps a local girl when she falls in love with a travelling artist. A lifeboat team - arguably the real heroes of the hour - is corralled in attempt to make the rescue.

This daft comedy pits the popular character Pimple (Fred Evans) against his cousin in a fight to secure an inheritance from an insane uncle (played by Fred's brother Joe). A suspicious letter contains some dubious advice on how Pimple should treat his uncle's insanity - including singing to him and playing practical jokes - with predictable but funny results.

A doll fetches a nurse when children elope.

A mix of spectacle, animation and dance, the film reveals an early delight in the potential for creative fun with film form. Its director, Walter R. Booth had been described as making British films which attempted to out-Méliès Méliès.

Propaganda film released in 1915.

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.

Mr Pipe is called into service for repetition. His fiancée is jealous and dresses up as soldier and goes with him without him noticing.

At a party, Frede meets the popular actress Edith, with whom he falls head over heels in love. One day, he’s in the theatre to see her perform, he overhears a conversation which shows her in a new and bad light. Frede chooses to travel away, and he doesn’t see Edith until many years later, when she comes on an unannounced visit. (stumfilm.dk)

An unknown Menichelli, a young and lively beauty, is desired by two stars of the Italian scene: Ruggero Ruggeri and Amleto Novelli. This breezy story based on an comedy unreleased in Italy at that time is built around Ruggeri, who plays the role of a playboy father who wants to turn into the family delights rejoining his son until then neglected. Novelli, a little uncomfortable in a role that would have required ten years less, is the good-hearted rustic son. Pina Menichelli, adorned with flowers, wanders about on her bicycle, between not only two men, but also two lifestyles. In this role, she shows off a naturalness that will surprise people who know her only for her decadent performances. Sometimes, though, a dark glimpse reveals the character of the actress, that will stand out in the imagination of the public.

Commissioned by Pathé Frères, Alfred Machin shoots several local stories in Belgium, in a typically Belgian setting. Machin produces not only historical dramas, but also some comedies mainly portraying the Brussels "zwanze", the typical humour of the city's inhabitants, which is characterised by a finely-balanced mix of self-deprecation and exaggeration. In doing so he made his films accessible and recognizable to his audience. Mr Beulemeester, notorious member of the local militia and very possessive when it comes to his daughter, is in this film fooled by charmer and suitor Van Soest.

A silent romantic film about the battle between two fur trappers for the hand of a lovely girl.

Also known as Five Minutes.

The clerk Kulikov, whose shoes are worn out, needs galoshes. The Adventures of Kulikov, hurrying to work in oversized galoshes, constitute the content of the film.

Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rob from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.

Pechorin is deprived of the officer’s rank and gets transferred to one of the mountain villages of the Caucasus. He gets bored of the everyday life and starts looking for fun. He promises Azamat to help him steal Kazbich’s horse if the former allows Pechorin to marry his sister Bela. Soon Pechorin gets annoyed by Bela’s presence. Kazbich, insulted by the theft of his horse kills Bela. Coldblooded Pechorin is hardly moved by this news.

A traitor to blame for the death of members of a Bolshevik underground organization is finally revealed.

Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.

A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.

A mysterious evildoer terrifies the French Riviera. That mysterious character, which is hidden under the personality of James Pearce, a diamond-maker, calls himself The Black X. This time, the Black X has noticed the rich jewels of a celebrated singer and, in the company of her henchmen, is preparing to carry out the great robbery.

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This time they succeed in kidnapping the rescuer. The girl runs home and gets help from several neighbors. They track the ruffians down to a cabin in the mountains where the gang has trapped their victim and set the cabin on fire.

Arshaluys Aurora Mardiganian plays herself as a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Based on her published memoirs, it is thought to be the first film made about genocide.

A team of welders is actively preparing for international sports. Marko considers himself incapable of sports and shies away from training. But acquaintance with active gymnast Anya changes his attitude to sports. He devotes all his free time to training and is the first to come to the finish line at the running championship. He is sent to international competitions in Moscow. He is happy - Anya escorts him.

In this end-of-the-life scenario, a group of adolescents and scattered loners move through a destroyed landscape. One of the leaders is poisoned by his girlfriend, who now takes his place and demonstrates her power to a newcomer. However, he in turn passes the test of courage, puts himself in the place of the head of the group and leads the ever-growing community into an uncertain future.

This adaptation of a classic poem by H. Tumanyan tells the story of the tragic love of Anush and Saro.

A wealthy young man from the country comes to San Jose (the capital of the country) to study law. In the city he makes new friends and gets in trouble, so he comes back (retorna, in Spanish) to his town, with his girlfriend and his family.

A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer Fies to Leningrad. American workers inform Soviet comrades about the impending catastrophe. But the air attack on the city has already begun, and the assault troops of the enemy capture one suburb of the city after the other.