1917 Movies

Kaiser is a short animated film, directed by the cartoonist Álvaro Marins, the Seth, in 1917. It is considered the first cartoon produced in Brazil.

A documentary film describing the family planning work of Margaret Sanger.

The animating of an early American political cartoon.

A soldier's father dreams the food economy helps to win the war.

Gymnastic routines performed at the Joinville Military Academy

The great glacier of the Selkirks in the Canadian Switzerland is equivalent to thirty Switzerlands of the Overseas. In this picture you are accompanie...

1917 travelogue.

A spring idyll released via Edison's short-lived Conquest Pictures sometime in 1917.

Musty becomes a carpenter's assistant. He decides that a twin brother would be a great help to him in his work, so he makes one out of wood. Thrown ou...

Following the boat Capella as it makes its way through and around the Dalsland canal.

Female dancers, shot partly in slow motion.

It contains: Lima beauties, the racetrack; mass exits; the procession of the Lord of Miracles.

Released on December 17th, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.

Ceylon is the land of perpetual and exceeding beauty, her people picturesque in dress and quaint in personality, often amusing and always entertaining...

On a military base, we follow the preparation of the Austrian planes and their takeoff to fly over and observe the Italian enemy. The pilot is equippe...

A series of war pictures, "Germany and Its Armies of To-day," has been brought to this country by the Germanic Official War Film, Inc., and are now re...

A Krazy Kat short.

This film shows Haarlem, Netherlands, at its best: the St. Bavo Cathedral, street scenes, historic buildings, and beautiful parks and villas. Many of...

The rich uncle of "Hopeful John" objects to Betty's sister Mabel's upcoming marriage to his nephew, as he considers the family--especially Betty--to b...

A Italian documentary short from 1917.