01 January 1910 Factual 9 mins
A proto-"documentary" film depicting workers of a mine owned by the Wilgan Coal and Iron Company
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United Kingdom 01 January 1910
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
01 January 1910
A young prince secretly married to a gypsy girl is forced to disclose the fact when his father desires him to marry a wealthy girl.
24 December 1910
Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the group's trust and bringing them into a trap.
01 September 1910
A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.
04 August 1910
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity.
28 July 1910
The West Texas Borax Company is practically insolvent. John Graham, the president, has been unable to find the white mineral in sufficient quantities to satisfy the eastern stockholders, and a letter from his partner arrives which brings the disagreeable news that their backers are about to back out, unless, in the language of Missouri, they "are shown" something.
11 April 1910
Four customers are having a peaceful game of cards in a quiet café. The atmosphere being heavy, the waiter falls asleep and has an unsettling dream about the ills of alcohol, among other things.
26 September 1910
Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things.
26 December 1910
Four good friends are so engrossed with their card game that they are late to pick up their wives at the theatre.
25 December 1910
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
16 May 1910
An ailing woman is visited by her family doctor. This film was seized by Austrian authorities in 1911, and the fact was announced in the Wiener Zeitung, the Official Journal of Vienna.
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