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)
Watch the official Fleurs des champs 1912 trailer in HD below.
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:
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.
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.
23 December 1912
Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella.
14 March 1912
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the living conditions endured by the employees of her husband's mill.
01 January 1912
An Orthodox rabbi deals with personal tragedies and an increasingly secular world.
11 February 1912
The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. Billy borrows his friend's wife.
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.
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