1912 Movies

Jaw-dropping acrobatics for royal visitors.

Promotion of Rottnest as a tourist destination. A few years earlier Rottnest had been a prison. Western Australia’s first promotional film.

Venetian Glassware

A Italian short comedy from the Società Italiana Cines company.

Documentary about making uniforms.

A Sexton Blake mystery.

Recordings of various wild flowers. A caterpillar crawls on a plant and turns into a pupa. A butterfly emerges from the pupa. It turns out to be a wom...

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper falls ill with diphtheria, but there is no doctor on the island. A wireless operator has the idea of contacting a...

Short documentary film taken on the Carnegie's Siberian expedition.

Japanese horror movie from 1912.

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

Short comedy about Polyte, who has to bring a note to a general. As means of transport he uses a horse, a kind of dog cart and a pig. On the way he wr...

How Aunty Mirandy and Uncle buy an Automobile, and how that auto saved the brother's life and helped to assassinate a horse thief.

A short documentary of Professor Georg Brandes.

Comedy short.

Dignitaries including the Nizam of Hyderabad gather to celebrate the Durbar in honour of George V, who arrives by boat in Bombay.

Short Italian travelogue film about Rhodes. Idyllic shots of a couple in love in the woods and by the sea are followed by images of Italian naval ship...

Crowds watch the funeral cortege passing through Thorndon. The Marist priest, Charles Venning, died in a motorcycle accident in Hill Street, Thorndon...

Men, women and children picking the blossoms of spring's floral harvest.