This is a list of lost silent films that were released from 1910 to 1914.
Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1910 | Il Trovatore | Louis J. Gasnier, Ugo Falena | Francesca Bertini, Gemma Farina, Alberto Vestri | An adaptation, by Film d'Arte Italiana, of the Gutiérrez play, with a special music score adapted from Verdi | [1] [2] |
Jean and the Calico Doll | [3] [4] | ||||
1911 | Back to the Soil | A drama short | [5] | ||
The Better Way | ? | A drama short | [6] | ||
Billy the Kid | A one-reel western short | [7] | |||
The Fisher-Maid | A short | [8] | |||
For Her Brother's Sake | Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Jack Pickford, Thomas H. Ince | A one-reel short | [9] | ||
For the Queen's Honor | Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, King Baggot, George Loane Tucker, Isabel Rea | A short | [10] | ||
Her Darkest Hour | A short | [11] | |||
His Dress Shirt | A short | [12] | |||
The Immortal Alamo | Earliest film of the Battle of the Alamo, shot at the Alamo itself | [13] [14] | |||
Love Heeds Not the Showers | Mary Pickford, Owen Moore | A one-reel short | [15] | ||
Only a Factory Girl | Australian drama | [16] | |||
The Rose's Story | A short | [17] | |||
Science | A short | [18] | |||
Second Sight | A short | [19] | |||
The Sentinel Asleep | A short | [20] | |||
The Toss of a Coin | A one-reel short | [21] | |||
1912 | The Honor of the Family | Thought by some to be Chaney's on-screen debut, though this is disputed | [22] | ||
Honor Thy Father | A one-reel short | [23] | |||
Saved from the Titanic | Étienne Arnaud | First film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, released just 29 days after the disaster. Gibson was an actual Titanic survivor. | [24] [25] | ||
1913 | Adrienne Lecouvreur | A two-reeler | [26] | ||
Almost an Actress | [27] | ||||
Back to Life | [28] | ||||
The Battle of Gettysburg | The film was reported to have been screened in France in 1973. Mack Sennett arranged to shoot Cohen Saves the Flag alongside the production of Gettysburg, surreptitiously capturing Ince's battle sequences in his film at no cost to himself. This indirect footage survives.[29] | [30] | |||
Bloodhounds of the North | Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, William Lloyd | [31] | |||
Baldknobber | Bill Harrington | Unknown actors | [32] | ||
Caprice | [33] | ||||
The Crisis | An Australian melodrama | [34] | |||
An Elephant on His Hands | Eddie Lyons, Lee Moran, Ramona Langley | A one-reel short | [35] | ||
Evangeline | Edward P. Sullivan, William Cavanaugh | Laura Lyman, John F. Carleton | The first Canadian feature-length movie | [36] | |
In the Bishop's Carriage | [37] | ||||
Lady Babbie | This three-reel featurette was filmed at Eclair American's studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and on location at Lake George, New York. | ||||
Macbeth | The International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House may have a print. | [38] | |||
Maria Marten, or the Mystery of the Red Barn | Nessie Blackford, Maurice Elvey | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list | [39] | ||
A promotional Kinemacolor film of The New Henrietta | The New Henrietta was a then-current stage adaptation of the very successful 19th century play The Henrietta which had starred William Henry Crane. The footage was not of the play, but instead depicted the cast relaxing "in their social hours." It was the first screen appearance of future movie star Douglas Fairbanks. | [40] | |||
Red Margaret, Moonshiner | A two-reel short | [41] | |||
The Restless Spirit | [42] | ||||
The Sea Urchin | [43] | ||||
Shon the Piper | [44] | ||||
The Trap | A one-reel short | [45] | |||
The Werewolf | Henry MacRae | Clarence Burton, Marie Walcamp | The first werewolf film; it was destroyed in a Universal fire in 1924 on the East Coast. | [46] [47] | |
1914 | Andrew Carnegie | Andrew Carnegie as himself | Recording of Carnegie reading The Gospel of Wealth. The Kinetophone sound cylinder remains. | [48] | |
The Birth of the Telephone | Allen Ramsey? | Thomas A. Watson as himself | Watson was the person who received the first telephone call, from Alexander Graham Bell. The Kinetophone sound cylinder remains. | [49] | |
A Celebrated Case | George Melford? | [50] | |||
The Crucible | Clark's second feature, based on the play by Mark Lee Luther. Re-released in 1919 | [51] | |||
Damaged Goods | Bennett starred in the 1913 Broadway play Damaged Goods with Wilton Lackaye. | [52] | |||
Darktown Jubilee | Bert Williams (likely) | An "all-Negro" film starring comedian Williams, the lone black star of the Ziegfeld Follies and America's top recording artist. The distributor, Biograph, pulled the film from circulation after white audiences responded poorly to Williams' wily, independent characterization. | [53] | ||
The Escape | The master negatives for this feature on the subject of venereal disease were destroyed on June 13, 1914 in a disastrous fire at the Lubin Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia. | [54] | |||
Fighting Death | A thrill film starring early motion picture stuntman Rodman Law. Filmed in New York and New Jersey | ||||
The Ghost Breaker | Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. | [55] | |||
Hearts Adrift | A film similar in theme to Henry De Vere Stacpoole's The Blue Lagoon | [56] | |||
Her Friend the Bandit | The only lost film starring Chaplin. Rumors that it had been found in Argentina proved to be untrue. | [57] | |||
The Higher Law | [58] | ||||
The Hopes of Blind Alley | [59] | ||||
In the Clutches of the Gang | [60] | ||||
The Jungle | George Irving, John H. Pratt | [61] | |||
The Life of General Villa | A film about Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, starring Villa as himself | [62] | |||
The Man Who Disappeared | A ten-part serial | [63] | |||
The Million Dollar Mystery | A serial in 23 parts | [64] | |||
A Night of Thrills | [65] | ||||
The Old Cobbler | This two-reel short was MacQuarrie's directorial debut. | [66] | |||
The Siege and Fall of the Alamo | Ray Myers | Four production stills and a review are held at the Library of Congress. | [67] | ||
Sperduti nel buio | The only known copy of this movie was stolen in Rome by German soldiers during the Second World War, and then presumably lost. No other copy has been found since then. | [68] | |||
A Study in Scarlet | James Bragington | The first feature-length adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story, it is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of missing films. | [69] [70] [71] | ||
Such a Little Queen | [72] | ||||
The Trey o' Hearts | A serial with 15 episodes | [73] |