The Year 1910 in Film

[Nerves]

I've attempted to compile a list of all surviving films from 1910 that are available on DVD or for online viewing. I've also made a list of films that are known to exist but are not readily available. If anyone knows of any films I've missed or that are available on DVD, etc. I'd be grateful if you'd let me know.

Films on DVD and online:

Actor's Children, The
Aerial Submarine, The
Aeroplane Flight and Wreck (Piloted by M. Cody)
Affair of Hearts, An
All on Account of the Milk
Anita Garibaldi
Anne Boleyn
Arcadian Maid, An
As It Is in Life
Aufregende Lektüre
Automatic Moving Company (Mobilier fidèle)

Balancing Bluebottle, The (The Acrobatic Fly)
Baptême de Calino, Le
Beautiful Margaret, The (Le tout petit Faust)
Beaux arts mystérieux, Les
Bebé veut imiter St. Martin
Benitez quiere ser torero
Birth of a Flower
Brains Repaired (Le retapeur de cervelles)
Buffalo Hunt, The (Chasse aux buffles en Indo-Chine)

Carmen: Air du toréador
Cartoon of TR's Reception by Crowned Heads of Europe
Charlie and Kitty in Brussels (Toto et sa soeur en bombe à Bruxelles)
Chasse à la girafe en Ouganda, La
Chefs-d'oeuvre de Bébé, Les
Child of the Ghetto, A
Christmas Carol, A
Christopher Columbus
Colonel Roosevelt Is Invited to Fly in Arch Hoxsey's Plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910
Comedy-Graph, The (Le binettoscope)
Comment les pauvres mangent à Paris

Daddy's Double
David et Goliath
Day in the Life of a Coalminer, A
Delights of the Shoot, The (Le delizie della caccia)
Deux petits Jésus
Distractions of Foolshead (Cretinetti distratto)
Doctor's Secret, The (Hydrothérapie fantastique)

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Greeted by His People
En Route
Enfance de l'art, L'
Epée du spirite, L’

Faithful
Family Doctor, The (Der Hausarzt)
Faust
Ficelles de Léontine, Les
Flash of Light, A
Floral Studies (Cadres fleuris)
Four Little Tailors, The (Les quatre petits tailleurs)
Frankenstein
Fugitive, The

Geheimnisvolle Streichholzdose, Die (A Match Box Mystery)
Golden Supper, The
Graf von Luxemburg: Mädel klein, Mädel fein, Der
Greediness Spoiled Foolshead's Christmas (Come fu che l'ingordigia rovinò il Natale a Cretinetti)

Hanging at Jefferson City (Pendaison à Jefferson City)
Hasher's Delirium, The (Le songe d'un garçon de café)
Headdresses of Different Periods (Histoire de chapeaux)
Her Terrible Ordeal
Hercules and the Big Stick (Les douze travaux d'Hercule)
His Mother's Thanksgiving
Homme mystérieux, L'
House with Closed Shutters, The
How Bumptious Papered the Parlor

Im Bade
In Life's Cycle
In the Border States

Je voudrais un enfant

King Edward's Funeral

Lad from Old Ireland, A
Lesson, The
Life and Death of Pushkin (Zhizn i smert A.S. Pushkina)
Living Marble (Lebender Marmor)
Love Among the Roses
Lys d'or, Le (The Golden Lily)

Marriage in the Moon, A (Un matrimonio interplanetario)
Max Embarrassed (Max cherche une fiancée)
Max Goes Ski-ing (Max fait du ski)
Max Has Trouble with His Eyes (Le duel d'un monsieur myope)
Max Is Stuck Up (Max ne se mariera pas)
Max Makes a Touch (L'ingénieux attentat)
Max Takes a Bath (Max prend un bain)
Max's First Job (Les débuts de Max au cinéma)
Modern Prodigal: A Story in Symbolism, The
Molière
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Musicomanie, La

Nativity (La nativité)
Neo-Impressionist Painter, The (Le peintre néo-impressionniste)
Never Again!
New York of Today

Oath and the Man, The
Only A Faded Flower
Oscar Straus
Over Silent Paths

Paula Peters and Her Trained Animals
Peace of Coal, A
Petit Chantecler, Le
Pikovaya dama (The Queen of Spades)
Placier est tenace, Le
Police Force of New York City, The
Police in the Year 2000 (La police en l'an 2000)
Portrait inachevé, Le
Princess Tarakanova

Ramona
Re Lear
Reconciliation of Foes (Il ratto delle Sabine)
Rembrandt de la rue Lepic, Le
Reves enfantins
Rien n'est impossible à l'homme
Rocky Road, The
Romance of a Jockey, The (Il romanzo di un fantino)
Romance of the Western Hills, A
Rose o' Salem Town
Rusalka

Salome
Seine Flood, The
Sergeant, The: Told in the Yosemite Valley
Sly Little Cupid (L'amorino)
Solving the Puzzle (Champion de puzzle)
Song That Reached His Heart, The
Sorrows of the Unfaithful, The
Stenographer's Friend, The; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph
Stop Thief

That Chink at Golden Gulch
Theater commercial--Warner's corsets
Thunderbolt
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
Timidités de Rigadin, Les
Tontolini's Acrobats (Acrobati comici)
Tournée des grands ducs, La
TR in Norway and Denmark, 1910
TR Reviews French Troops at Vincennes, France, 1910
TR Speaking at the Battery, 1910
TR's Return from Africa, 1910
TR's Return to New York, 1910
Tramp's Sacrifice, The
Trip to Mars, A
Truth Revealed, The
Tweedledum Wants to Be a Jockey (Robinet vuol fare il jockey)
Twelfth Night
Two Roses, The

Unchanging Sea, The
Usurer, The

Vicar of Wakefield, The
Vie gaspillée, Une
Vorbereitung auf das Rendezvous

What the Daisy Said
Whimsical Illusions (Les illusions fantaisistes)
White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America
Who Was the Culprit? (Chi fu il colpevole?)
Wilful Peggy
William H. Taft in Panama
Winning Back His Love
Winter's Tale, A
Woman Always Pays, The (Afgrunden)
Woman Hater, The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
Works and Workers of Denton Holme

Young Lord Stanley

Films that exist but not available on DVD or online:

Affair of an Egg, The
Aventures d'un bout de papier

Brudekjolen (The Wedding Dress)

Cagliostro (Cagliostro, aventurier, chimiste et magicien)
Call to Arms, The
Charme des fleurs, Le
Child's Impulse, A
Crippled Teddy Bear, The

Dame aux camélias, La
Duke's Plan, The

Examination Day at School

Fabian paa Rottejagt
Fricot Drinks a Bottle of Horse Embrocation (Fricot beve la medicina)

Gold Necklace, A

Happy Jack, a Hero
His Cinderella Girl

In Old California
In the Season of Buds

Jean the Match-Maker
Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest, Held at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910

Kingdom of Flowers, The
København ved Nat (Copenhagen by Night)

Little Snow White, The
Love Among the Roses

Magic Pills, The (Pillole portentose)
Max Has the Boxing Fever (Max champion de boxe)
Message of the Violin, The
Muggsy Becomes a Hero

One Night, and Then --

Ranch Girl's Legacy, The
Revolución de Mayo, La
Rich Revenge, A
Right to Labor, The
Romeo Turns Bandit

Sémiramis
Simple Charity
Smoker, The
Song of the Wildwood Flute, The

Time-Lock Safe, The

Under the Stars and Bars

Värmlänningarne
Victim of Jealousy, A

Waiter No. 5
Woman from Mellon’s, The
Woman Hater, The

More info on the films including directors, availability, with links: http://filmsbytheyear.com/chronological-list-of-films/.

[greta de groat]

Here are some more extant 1910 films:

The Love of Chrysanthemum (1910) 990 ft. Vitagaph. Director: Van Dyke Brooke. Cast: Norma Talmadge, Maurice Costello. Released May 28, 1910. A copy of this film is located at the National Film and Television Archive in London (35 mm.)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910) Pt. 1: 935 ft, pt. 2, 1,000 ft., Pt. 3, unknown. Vitagraph. Director: J. Stuart Blackton. Scenario: Eugene Mullin from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cast: Florence Turner, Mary Fuller, Flora Finch, Geneveve Tobin, E.R. Phillips, Charles Kent, Julia Arthur, Maurice Costello, Earle Williams, Carlyle Blackwell, Norma Talmadge? Clara Kimball Young? Released August 6, 1910. If Young and Talmadge are in this, it is in bit parts. Held by the National Film and Television Archive, London (Danish titles) and a re-released version by the Empire Safety Film Company from the late '20s has been available on video. Read more about this production on its webpage in Uncle Tom's Cabin on Film.

In Neighboring Kingdoms (1910) 995 ft. Vitagaph. Director: Wm. Humphrey. Scenario: Beta Breuil. Cast: Norma Talmadge, John Bunny, Charles Kent. Released Dec. 27, 1910 A copy of this film is located at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (35 mm. acetate negative and 16 mm. viewing copy)

A Dixie Mother (1910) 1 reel. Vitagraph Director: Van Dyke Brooke. Cast: Florence Turner, Carlyle Blackwell, Charles Kent, NT, Mary Maurice. Released Dec. 31, 1910. A copy of this film is available at the National Film and Television Museum in London (35 mm.)

The Sepoy's Wife (1910) 990 ft. Vitagraph. Cast: Maurice Costello, with CKY? Released Sept. 17, 1910. Held by the National Film and Television Archive, London (unconfirmed) and The Library of Congress (no reference copy as yet).

The Last of the Saxons (1910) 1007 ft. Vitagraph. Director: J. Stuart Blackton. Cast: CKY? James Young? Held by the National Film and Television Archive, London (unconfirmed). Released October 8, 1910.

Her Indian Mother (Kalem, 1910) With Jane Wolfe, George Melford. A copy of this film is available at the Library of Congress under the title The White Man Take a Red Wife.(35 mm.)

greta

[Nerves]

Thanks Greta. That was quick! As I went through imbd's lists of films released in 1910 I thought it was safe to skip titles with no ratings but now I see that's a lazy approach. Can you recommend any reference materials that might be an easier way for me to compile my lists. I'm trying to do this for every year from 1888 to the present.

[boblipton]

Neither should you assume that, just because a movie has ratings, it is extant. There is an unfortunate number of titles with ratings and even reviews that have truly not been seen for decades, even a century for 1910 films.

Bob

[Nerves]

Thanks Bob. I've noticed that and it always pisses me off!

[greta de groat]

I don't know of an easy way to go about it--the ones i posted were just films for people i had been researching.

greta

[Nerves]

Thanks. I noticed that that most of the films you posted had either Norma Talmadge or Clara Kimball in them. I'm still impressed by how quickly you found the films missing from my list!

[silentfilm]

There are hundreds of films from 1910 that survive but are not on DVD. Making a list of 1910 films available on DVD/BluRay is a useful exercise, but for all surviving films you'll need access to the FIAF archive database.

[greta de groat]

Here's By the Faith of a Child (Vitagraph)

Looks like Maurice Costello, i haven't watched the whole thing. There are probably a lot in the Eye collection online but i haven't figured out a good way to find them.


greta

[Nerves]

Thanks Bruce. I listed the films in print in case someone knew where I could find any of them on DVD or streaming online. I just keep a record of them to check once in a while to see if any have made their way to DVD.

[Nerves]

Thank you Greta!!

[Brent]

Yours is a laudable though Sisyphean task, Dan. For starters, I regularly see silent features and shorts at various film festivals and, when later looking them up online, see that they appear not to exist! IMDb, understandably, has massive holes everywhere and in the case of the BFI, not all of its holdings are even listed in its own database. The same pattern repeats in archives around the world.

I'd have thought far more practical, and useful, would be to isolate a single actor or filmmaker and try to list their entire filmography and/or ascertain what is actually available to view in one form or another.

You've got some really great reviews on your blog; you should set up a proper site!

[Nerves]

Thanks Brent! Yes, I've noticed there are films not listed on imdb, etc. In my index their titles are in B&W because I had no reference site to link to. I also realize that the task I've set for myself would take more than one lifetime to complete on my own but it keeps me out of trouble. It may be possible to at least list nearly all films from the silent era that are available for home viewing but even that would need to be constantly updated due to new discoveries and releases. BTW, I just discovered this http://www.filmsomniac.com/years which may prove very helpful. Thank you for the compliment on my reviews. What would the advantage be to setting up a proper site over blogging?

Best regards,
Dan

[Brent]

The differences and pros and cons of blogs vs sites are a big subject and you'd be better off doing a search. There are some great sites (and blogs!) which go into some detail. Personally, I'm not a fan of the blog format: I think it was already dated when it appeared in the 1990s and it seems like more of an anachronism with each passing year.
On a practical level, just two things to consider, are:

• Navigation is clumsy and awkward; older posts get buried more or less irretrievably, at least as far as the average reader is concerned. The more content you generate, the worse it gets, you've got some hidden gems on your site, but I really had to go digging for them!

• All single-author blogs suffer entropy eventually. True, a multi-author blog is an option, but multi-author sites have infinitely more possibilities.

As for your task at hand, though I wish it were otherwise, you will simply get overwhelmed and give up, as you begin to realise the impossibility of it. So far I've a dozen or so articles that just list legitimate releases for certain films and artists and can barely manage to keep those updated...

The bottom line is before investing lots more time and effort into what you've got, find out for sure whether it's suitable for what you need. If you intended generating masses of future content that you intend to be navigable, I sincerely doubt that's the case. There's a reason why Wikipedia and IMDb are not blogs! Good luck.

[Nerves]

Thanks for the advice, Brent. I will look into it.

[agantuk]

F. Percy Smith's The Acrobatic Fly (originally titled The Balancing Bluebottle) did not appear in 1910 but in 1908. It was first shown at the the Palace Theatre of Varieties in London's Cambridge Circus in late September-October 1908. It was reshown under the new title (the first show had not gone well) on 11 November at the Royal Photographic Society. The 1910 date is when it was shwn in the US after producer Charles Urban had arranged to have it linked with a US anti-fly campaign for which Smith made anothe film The Fly Pest in 1909. Both films were released in the US in 1910.

[MaryGH]

Hi Dan:

I looked at your site - wow, that's a big project you have going there! I agree with Brent on the proper site versus the blog although you could probably split it up - keep your Wordpress blog, obviously, and use something else for the actual website.

It doesn't have to be anything fancy, and most websites use a content management system of some kind, but if all you need is a minimum number of pages, you could get by with a combination of client-side and server-side coding, like HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Javascript, Python, etc.

I have both http://Aventurasdetomtyler.com and http://triggertomblog.blogspot.com - the latter is the marketing tool. I went with Google Blog because it is free and I do not really need anything fancy.

By the way I clicked on the following in your original post on the thread and got an error reading of:

No input file specified.

https://filmsbytheyear.com/index.php/ch ... -of-films/

Looks like your link should be:

https://filmsbytheyear.com/chronological-list-of-films/


Good luck with your project!

[Nerves]

Thanks aguntuk. I'll update my index. And thanks Mary. WP changed all the URLs since I posted that link four years ago. I will update my original post. BTW, since I made that post four years ago I've decided to include lost films and films held in archives but not available on DVD or online in the index.