Saving an Audience

Saving an Audience 1912

1

Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude has an idea. They will hire Susan B. Gabonthy to lecture for them, clear about one hundred dollars apiece, and have enough to tide them over into the next term.

1912

The Invaders

The Invaders 1912

5.50

The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.

1912

A Grocery Clerk's Romance

A Grocery Clerk's Romance 1912

4.50

Ford arranged for lazy Brown to be kidnapped and dynamited by thugs, so that he can move in and marry Mrs. Brown. Locations include Rambo's Hotel, First Street in Coytesville, New Jersey, and Ford Lee, New Jersey area, probably in July or early August.

1912

Forger's Doom

Forger's Doom 1912

1

Claire, the wife of a bank teller, has a liason with a mysterious stranger while her husband is away.

1912

Lucile

Lucile 1912

1

A royal love triangle leads to heartbreak for all until 25 years hence all is made right for their descendants.

1912

Fra Diavolo

Fra Diavolo 1912

1

Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.

1912

The Informer

The Informer 1912

1

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.

1912

Stenographer Wanted

Stenographer Wanted 1912

4.00

Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.

1912

Stolen Glory

Stolen Glory 1912

5.50

Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a parade, pursued by his rival. Utilizes footage shot during a Thomas Ince battle production at Inceville, the Grand Army of the Republic parade in downtown Los Angeles which commenced at 9:30am PST on September 11, 1912 (including starting area at 5th and Los Angeles and viewing stands near finish by Courthouse at Broadway and Temple), and other G.A.R. festivities at the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle in Los Angeles.

1912

Written in the Sand

Written in the Sand 1912

1

Love is awakened in the heart of Peter Hansen when he sees his name written within the outlines of a heart on the sands of the seashore. Above his own name is written the name of "Norma," a daughter of Gyntsen, the aristocrat of the little village. Norma's father is a widower. He idolizes his daughter. Peter is a quiet, noble fellow, a fisherman, with the instincts of a poet and the rule of a king. He is not given to associating with his fellows, being of a retiring disposition. His natural timidity and shyness forbid him to make known his love for her and he worships her in silence.

1912

A Cure for Pokeritis

A Cure for Pokeritis 1912

4.90

This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.

1912

The Tomboy on Bar Z

The Tomboy on Bar Z 1912

4.00

A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.

1912

Cinderella

Cinderella 1912

1

According to Vachel Lindsay, "the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers".

1912

The Skeleton

The Skeleton 1912

4.00

Naughty children steal an anatomy-class papier-mâché skeleton and use it to play pranks on people around town.

1912

Help! Help!

Help! Help! 1912

4.30

A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in his chauffeur-driven automobile.

1912

The Toymaker

The Toymaker 1912

1

An old German toymaker, Hans Greyburg, living in a little flat on the east side of New York, while engaged one day making and dressing dolls, is visited by Dot Avery, the little girl from the flat above. He is fond of children and makes friends with her and gives her an old doll.

1912