15 October 1912 Comedy 10 mins
While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
Watch the official An Elephant on Their Hands 1912 trailer in HD below.
Sorry, we can't find the movie trailer you're looking for.
Either a trailer for this movie has not been released yet, or it was removed following a request from the copyright holder.
Frederick A. Thomsom Director
United States 15 October 1912
If you liked the An Elephant on Their Hands trailer, you may like these ones:
27 February 1916
The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's mercenary mother.
24 August 1925
A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
06 February 1931
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
07 November 1925
Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act.
25 December 1926
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
13 July 1925
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
20 October 2008
Sid the Sloth takes a school of children out on a camping trip from home, only to find that in typical Sid style, he is not a very good guide and the children he takes with him don't have a very good time.
17 April 1924
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
27 December 1926
A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
04 September 1916
A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later�
18 April 1926
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
16 August 1912
Max is doing the Tango with Miss Leonora in a Berlin night club. Being impressed by the performance a german Baron asks him to give his family a dancing lesson.
21 October 1912
A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.
07 August 1912
SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees.
10 April 1912
A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.
01 January 1912
An Orthodox rabbi deals with personal tragedies and an increasingly secular world.
21 May 1912
Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age.
26 February 1912
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two.
02 February 1912
"Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress" (1912, 14 minutes) is a comedy-drama about yet another girl from the East who doesn't need to be protected from the local dangers.
Have you watched An Elephant on Their Hands yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1912 Vitagraph Company of America.
