01 January 1912 3 mins
Recordings of various wild flowers. A caterpillar crawls on a plant and turns into a pupa. A butterfly emerges from the pupa. It turns out to be a woman and she does a dance. Contains fragments from Gaston Velle's La métamorphose du papillon (1904)
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Métamorphose du papillon Trailer
Métamorphoses d'un papillon Trailer
Métamorphoses du papillon Trailer
The Butterfly's Metamorphosis Trailer
Veldbloemen Trailer
France 01 January 1912
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1912:
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.
04 April 1912
The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results.
29 June 1912
This film tells the dramatic story of the death of this famous Bible character and his trip to the witch of Endor, who forecasted his tragic end.
02 September 1912
Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital.
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.
21 October 1912
A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.
28 August 1912
A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.
26 February 1912
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
07 May 1912
Alkali is considered the ranch seamstress by the boys on Hard-Up, and consequently has to sew buttons on coats and do other sewing stunts that finally wear on his nerves and decide him on the matrimony thing.
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