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Views of the Rhineland-Palatinate health resort. Barnack filmed the spa garden and the left bank development with water tower and the legendary hotel Balmoral, where Richard Wagner resided. In the background you can see the Kaiserbrücke, on the right the …

Rowing Regatta (Imperial Regatta)Documentation of the International Regatta of the Frankfurter Regatta-Verein e.V. on 31 May/1 June 1914 at Deutschherrnkai in Frankfurt am Main. The film shows races around the Kaiser Vier with the boats Grasshopper Zürich…

Winter sports in Wetzlar at BrühlsbachwarteWinter sports near Wetzlar. Tobogganists and skiers populate the slope. An intertitle reads: "That no-one is born a master is also true for our athletes. After all, it takes time to learn a telemark."Si…

Regional Cattle Show in Wetzlar Documentation of the Wetzlar Festival. Floats with the seasons of rural life passing by, footage of the Wetzlar Cathedral Square and Kornmarkt. Other floats: Wittenberg traditional costumes and the float of the "Union-…

Haemodialysis on a Dog Documentation of an early dialysis experiment by Prof. Georg Haas at the Medical Clinic Gießen. Using collodion tubes, Prof. Haas and two colleagues perform a "blood purification" on a dog in the laboratory. Since the 1910…

This French film shows a joint visit to the Verdun front by French President Raymond Poincaré, Serbian Prince Regent Alexander I, and French Brigadier General Philippe Pétain. Featured are the presentation of awards to deserving railway workers, a troop i…

This French film shows a flag ceremony in Paris on July 14, 1917. Among others, President Poincaré can be seen honoring soldiers. "Le 14 Juillet 1917" was distributed in the 28mm format that Pathé Frères introduced in France in 1912 and marketed…

Views of a boat trip in the Spreewald. The camera follows a boat in subjective perspective. Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film camera. He documented flood di…

Information film about the production process of carborundum (silicon carbide, a synthetic mineral).

A romantic drama in which the orphan Jack turns out to be from a good family, which means that he can marry his beloved Kathe. But Kathe’s lover is jealous, and tries to keep Jack at bay.

An Indian scholar tries to get an American colleague, who is working on a powerful explosive, under his control by using his drinking problem.

A short, silent action film about a female journalist who does research into smuggling for a sensational newspaper article.

A silent Western about a love story that takes place during the gold rush. The gold prospector Burke Allister falls in love with Mary, who believes the slanderous lies that have been spread about Burke by his competitor. When Mary desperately wants to plu…

Compilation of fragments with images of emperor Wilhelm II in Huis Doorn and of the de sluices near IJmuiden.

Crime drama in which Minnie is haunted by her past. She flees from Jim to escape from his bad influence. During a burglary Jim shoots a man and insists on Minnie to help him get away from there. Minnie's husband is suspicious, for which Jim eventually…

A social drama about Yukio, who came to the United States illegally, and who is used by a gang of spies. He steals secret documents from an admiral, but when he realizes what he has done, he demands to get the documents back. In the battle that follows, t…

A political crime film in which a militant, anarchist father allows his political ideals to prevail over human dignity. The father uses his young daughter to carry out an attack on Princess Louise. After his wife foils the attack and he is arrested by the…

Based on an English fairy tale in which poverty forces Jack to sell their cow, but in exchange gets beans instead of money. Eventually he uses the magic beans to wind up in the castle of the giant.

Images of the fair in the American state Montana, with shots of cows, horses and rodeo riders.

An early short film in which the young widow is protected by the employer of her recently deceased husband.

Newsreel item about the visit of the famous American comedian Harold Lloyd to Huis Doorn

Fifth episode in a series of two-reels in which a 'society girl' has a position of special investigator at the police and works in every, in itself standing, episode on different cases. In this episode detective Ruth is chasing the scoundrel Snak…

The first episode of a series of reportages about movie stars. We see Douglas Fairbanks, Montague Love, Mary Miles Minter, and James Kirkwood, as well as various film studios.