1917 Movies

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

South African

Captain Grogg and Kalle attends an African ball.

1917 travelogue.

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.

Part 2, found at the New Zealand Film Archive, zeros in on urban Chinese workers—peddlers, barbers, cooks, street performers, laborers, and rickshaw d...

Footage of the eruption of Mt. Lassen in Northern California. Mt. Lassen erupted from 1914-1917, the last volcano in the Cascades to erupt prior to Mt...

A Krazy Kat short.

Scenes of devastation following the war in San Martino Del Carso between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire that started in 1915.

Likely shot in the summer of 1916, gives a tour of Anchorage, including the Alaska Labor Union Hall log building, which was burned down shortly after.

Documentary on the then-new Chinese Republic, taken over a ten-year period. Footage includes races at Shanghai, imperial ceremonies at the national Te...

A Krazy Kat short.

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

The story of Little Red Riding Hood is told through the use of doll animation. Features puppet likenesses of famous movie stars such as Charlie Chapli...

French soldiers injured in WWI are re-educated to learn new trades.

Released in 1917.

On a military base, we follow the preparation of the Austrian planes and their takeoff to fly over and observe the Italian enemy. The pilot is equippe...