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Silent Film Research at the Library for the Performing Arts: Films - 1910 to 1914

A guide to the films and Special Collections held at the Library for the Performing Arts that document the Silent Film era.

Index to Films

NYPL holds more than 1100 individual titles from the Silent Film era, often in different physical media formats. These links will take you into the NYPL's catalog to see more complete information about each title and individual media format. Most of these media are from our circulating collections and can checked out for home viewing. A few media are part of our research collections and can be requested to view onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts. 

Index to Films - 1910

Title Date Media Media
A history of hats / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Art's infancy / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Bébé's masterpiece / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Childish dreams / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Cohl fantasy program / directed by Émile Cohl. 1910 16mm  
Early advertising films: The stenographer's friend 1910 DVD  
En route / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Floral frameworks / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
House with closed shutters / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 DVD  
In the border states / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 DVD DVD
King Lear / directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio 1910 VHS  
Master of a fashionable game / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Merchant of Venice / directed by Gerolamo Lo Savio 1910 VHS  
Mr. Crack / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Music-mania / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Nothing is impossible for man / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Petit chantecler / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Petit Faust / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
Princess Tarakanova / directed by Kai Hansen and Maurice Maître 1910 VHS  
Rusalka / directed by Vasili Goncharov 1910 VHS  
The four little tailors / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The fugitive / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 DVD  
The mind of the café waiter / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The mysterious fine arts / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The neo-impressionist painter / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The persistent salesman / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The police force of New York City / directed by R.A. Walsh 1910 VHS  
The queen of spades / directed by Pyotr Chardynin 1910 VHS  
The smile-o-scope / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The twelve labors of Hercules / directed by Émile Cohl 1910 DVD  
The unchanging sea / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 DVD  
The unchanging sea / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 DVD  
The usurer / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 DVD  
The vicar of Wakefield / directed by Theodore Marston 1910 VHS  
The wonderful Wizard of Oz / directed by Otis Turner 1910 16mm DVD
Twelfth night / directed by Charles Kent 1910 VHS  
What the daisy said / directed by D.W. Griffith 1910 VHS DVD

Index to Films - 1911

Title Date Media Media Media
Alice Guy Blaché: mixed pets / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1911 DVD    
Battle / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD    
Bobby the coward / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 16mm    
Calino wants to be a cowboy / directed by Jean Durand 1911 DVD    
Calino's baptism / directed by Jean Durand 1911 DVD    
Cinderella / directed by George O. Nichols 1911 VHS    
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / directed by Lucius Henderson 1911 16mm VHS  
Enoch Arden / directed by D.W. Griffith. 1911 DVD    
Get rich quick / produced by the Thanhouser Company 1911 VHS    
Greater love hath no man / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1911 DVD    
Her awakening / Biograph. 1911 16mm    
His trust fulfilled / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD    
His trust: the faithful devotion and self-sacrifice of an old Negro servant / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD DVD DVD
Le vitrail diabolique = The diabolical church window / directed by Georges Méliès 1911 DVD    
Little Nemo / directed by Winsor McCay 1911 DVD    
Lois Weber: from death to life / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley 1911 DVD    
Max and the Quinquina / directed by Max Linder 1911 DVD    
On the brink (fragment) / directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber 1911 DVD    
Only in the way / produced by the Thanhouser Company 1911 VHS    
Richard III / directed by Frank R. Benson 1911 VHS    
Romance with a double bass / directed by Kai Hansen 1911 VHS    
She / directed by George Nichols 1911 VHS    
Swords and hearts / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD    
The barges / directed by George-André Lacroix 1911 DVD    
The coffin ship / produced by the Thanhouser Company 1911 VHS    
The colleen bawn / directed by Gene Gauntier and Sidney Olcott 1911 DVD    
The dream / directed by Thomas H. Ince and George Loane Tucker 1911 DVD    
The last drop of water / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD    
The Lonedale operator / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 16mm    
The miser's heart / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD    
The primal call / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 16mm    
Tramp strategy / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1911 DVD    
What shall we do with our old? / directed by D.W. Griffith 1911 DVD    
Zigoto and the affair of the necklace / directed by Jean Durand 1911 DVD    

Index to Films - 1912

Title Date Media Media Media
A fool and his money / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD    
A Vitagraph romance / directed by James Young 1912 16mm    
Algie the miner / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD    
An unseen enemy / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm DVD DVD
Burning heart: an Indian tale / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Calin, station master / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Cameraman's revenge / directed by Ladislaw Starewicz 1912 DVD    
Canned harmony / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD    
Children who labor / directed by Ashley Miller 1912 DVD    
Cleopatra / directed by Charles L. Gaskill 1912 16mm    
Factory drama / anonymous 1912 DVD    
Falling leaves / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD DVD  
Fine feathers / directed by Lois Weber 1912 16mm DVD  
For his son / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD    
Friends / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD    
His official appointment / directed by Charles Kent 1912 VHS    
How a mosquito operates / directed by Winsor McCay 1912 DVD    
Japanese idyll / directed by Lois Weber 1912 16mm    
Juggling for love / produced by Pathé Frères 1912 DVD    
La Marseillaise / directed by Etienne Arnaud 1912 DVD    
Little girl next door / directed by Lucius Henderson 1912 VHS    
Making an American citizen / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD    
Man's genesis / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm    
Max and his dog / directed by Max Linder 1912 DVD    
Max and his mother-in-law / directed by Max Linder 1912 DVD    
Max and the statue / directed by Max Linder 1912 DVD    
One is business, the other crime / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD DVD  
Onésime goes to hell / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Onésime vs. Onésime / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Onésime, clockmaker / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD DVD  
Oxford vs. Martigues / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Petticoat camp / produced by Thanhouser Company. 1912 VHS    
The baby and the stork / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm    
The ball player and the bandit / directed by Francis Ford 1912 DVD    
The Brigand brothers / directed by Vasili Goncharov 1912 VHS    
The burglar's dilemma / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD DVD  
The Copper beeches / directed by Georges Treville 1912 16mm    
The cry of the children / directed by George O. Nichols 1912 VHS    
The female of the species / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD    
The girl and her trust / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm DVD DVD
The high cost of living / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD    
The invaders / directed by Francis Ford and Thomas H. Ince 1912 DVD    
The lesser evil / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD    
The little rangers (fragment) (aka Two little rangers) / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1912 DVD    
The massacre / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm DVD  
The musketeers of Pig Alley / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm DVD  
The musketeers of Pig Alley / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD    
The New York hat / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm DVD DVD
The painted lady / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 16mm DVD DVD
The pavements of Paris / Anonymous director 1912 DVD    
The peasants' lot / directed by Vasily Goncharov 1912 VHS    
The railway of death / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
The reincarnation of Karma / directed by Van Dyke Brooke 1912 VHS    
The star of Bethlehem / directed by Lawrence Marston 1912 VHS    
The sunbeam / directed by D.W. Griffith 1912 DVD DVD  
Ukhod velikogo startsa = The departure of a great old man / directed by Yakov Protazanov 1912 VHS    
Under the claw / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Wedding day / directed by Yevgeni Slavinsky 1912 VHS    
Zigoto drives a locomotive / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    
Zigoto's outing with friends / directed by Jean Durand 1912 DVD    

Index to Films - 1913

Title Date Media Media Media
A drama of the air / directed by René le Somptier 1913 DVD    
A house divided / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1913 16mm    
Bangville police / directed by Henry Lehrman 1913 DVD    
Broncho Billy's capture / directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson 1913 16mm    
By man's law / directed by Christy Cabanne 1913 16mm    
Le voyage de la famille Bourrichon = The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family / diredted by Georges Méliès 1913 DVD    
Child's play / directed by Henri Fescourt 1913 DVD    
Christmas Eve / directed by Władysław Starewicz 1913 VHS    
Death's marathon / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 16mm DVD DVD
Evidence of the film / directed by Lawrence Marston and Edwin Thanhouser 1913 VHS    
Fantômas: Le mort qui tue = Murderous corpse / directed by
Louis Feuillade
1913 DVD    
Ingeborg Holm : a modern tragedy in four acts / directed by Victor Sjöström. 1913 DVD    
Insects' Christmas / directed by Ladislaw Starewicz 1913 DVD    
Just a shabby doll / produced by the Thanhouser Company. 1913 VHS    
Marble heart / produced by Thanhouser Company 1913 VHS    
Matrimony's speed limit / directed by Alice Guy Blaché 1913 16mm DVD  
Max plays at drama / directed by Lucien Nonguet 1913 DVD    
Merchant Bashkirov's daughter / directed by Nikolai Larin 1913 VHS    
Onésime and the heart of a gypsy / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Onésime gets married... so does Calino / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Onésime loves animals / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Onésime, trainer of men and horses / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Onésime, you'll get married... or else! / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Onésime: Calino's inheritance / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Onésime's theatrical debut / directed by Jean Durand 1913 DVD    
Red and white roses / directed by William Humphrey 1913 VHS    
Suspense / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley 1913 16mm DVD  
The battle at Elderbrush Gulch / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 16mm DVD DVD
The dachshund and the sausage / directed by John Randolph Bray 1913 VHS    
The dragonfly and the ant / directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz 1913 VHS    
The gusher / directed by Mack Sennett 1913 DVD    
The house in Kolomna / directed by Pyotr Chardynin 1913 VHS    
The house of darkness / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 DVD    
The lady and the mouse / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 16mm    
The mothering heart / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 DVD    
The mothering heart / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 DVD    
The rosary / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley 1913 DVD    
The telephone girl and the lady / directed by D.W. Griffith 1913 16mm    
The tiniest of stars / produced by the Thanhouser Company 1913 VHS    
The web / directed by Ralph Ince 1913 VHS    
Traffic in souls / directed by George Loane Tucker 1913 16mm VHS  
Twilight of a woman's soul / directed by Evgeni Bauer 1913 DVD    
Uncle's namesakes / produced by the Thanhouser Company. 1913 VHS    

Index to Films - 1914

Title Date Media Media Media
A child of the big city / directed by Evgenii Bauer 1914 VHS    
A fool there was: a psychological drama / directed by Frank Powell. 1914 DVD    
Active life of Dolly of the dailies: Episode 5: The Chinese fan / directed by Walter Edwin 1914 DVD    
Between showers / directed by Henry Lehrman 1914 DVD    
By the sun's rays / directed by Charles Giblyn 1914 VHS    
Cabiria / directed by Giovanni Pastrone 1914 VHS DVD DVD
Caught in a cabaret / directed by Mabel Normand 1914 DVD    
Cinderella / directed by James Kirkwood 1914 DVD    
Gertie the Dinosaur / directed by Winsor McCay 1914 VHS DVD  
Getting acquainted / directed by Charles Chaplin 1914 16mm    
Hearts and diamonds / directed by George D. Baker 1914 DVD    
Lost by a hair (fragment) / directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalle 1914 DVD    
Mabel's blunder / directed by Mabel Normand 1914 DVD    
Max and the lady doctor / directed by Max Linder 1914 DVD    
New York, the world's greatest city / produced by the Sterling Film Company 1914 VHS    
Onésime's family drama / directed by Jean Durand 1914 DVD    
Shep's race with death / directed by John Harvey 1914 VHS    
Silent witnesses / directed byYevgeny Bauer 1914 VHS    
The active life of Dolly of the dailies: Episode 5: The Chinese fan / directed by Walter Edwin 1914 DVD    
The decoy / produced by the Thanhouser Company 1914 VHS    

The Egyptian mummy / directed by Lee Beggs

1914 DVD    
The masquerader / directed by Charlie Chaplin 1914 16mm    
The perils of Pauline: Aerial wire / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Broken wing / directed by Louis Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Deadly turning / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Floating coffin / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Goddess of the Far West / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Hidden voice (from The exploits of Elaine) / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Pirate treasure / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Reptile in the flowers / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Through air and fire / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The perils of Pauline: Tragic plunge / directed by Louis Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. 1914 VHS    
The rounders / directed by Charlie Chaplin 1914 16mm    
The squaw man / directed by Cecil B. DeMille 1914 DVD    
The Virginian / directed by Cecil B. DeMille 1914 DVD    
The wishing ring: an idyll of old England / directed by Maurice Tourneur 1914 VHS    
The wrath of the gods, or, The destruction of Sakura-Jima / directed by Reginald Barker 1914 DVD    
Universal studios / produced by Thunderbird 1914 16mm    
What the daisy said / directed by D.W. Griffith 1914 VHS    
Won in a cupboard / directed by Mack Sennett 1914 DVD