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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30 January 2020
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31 May 2021
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05 May 2017
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16 October 2006
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14 July 2019
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1910:
04 August 1910
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity.
04 April 1910
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
17 January 1910
Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower of considerable wealth, the father of a girl child, and an old friend of the family, often surreptitiously helped them.
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.
16 May 1910
Four gentlemen are talking in a beer-garden; during a short absence of one of them, who pretends to be an art lover, the others decide to make a prank on him.
29 September 1910
A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly ridiculed in a cartoon which a mischievous pupil has drawn on a blackboard.
12 October 1910
In this instance Hank and Lank step into good fortune quite by accident. Pausing in front of a bargain dry-goods store, a young lady rushes up and asks Hank to hold her baby while she goes inside to make a few purchases.
01 August 1910
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
05 March 1910
The film pictures scenes on a big ostrich farm in Southern California, near Los Angeles. A large flock of several hundred of the big birds are seen feeding.
08 December 1910
All is fair in love and war but when we go into it we must take our chances. A Mexican beauty, fascinating and venturous, is in love with a young Mexican, willing to do and act for him regardless of her own safety and reputation.
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