1917 Movies

A lot has changed in the years since this promotional short film was made—but a lot hasn’t. Gym clothes have certainly improved, and exercise equipmen...

South African

German WW1 documentary.

An early animated short based on the Japanese folktale. There is some confusion as to which version is which, as there are other animated takes on th...

The America boat SS 'Frederik VIII' arrives in Copenhagen with Count Johan Heinrich Bernstorff.

Belgian WW1 documentary.

A red-tinted documentary record of a large petroleum fire.

South African Film

WW1 documentary

Female dancers, shot partly in slow motion.

Any trip to the Alps is guaranteed to have its ups and downs - with sledges, trains and sleighs the perfect transport from top to bottom. This Page's...

A silent theatrical newsreel showing Red Cross work in the war and more.

Short part of BFI collection "This Working Life: Steel".

Lanczy, the son of the handyman of the village falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter. The innkeeper promises his daughter to Lanczy if he is wil...

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

Documentary short.

Pathé production, depicting the activities of two toddlers at the Beach.

The animating of an early American political cartoon.

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.