The Visionaries, Madmen, and Tinkerers Who Created the Future That Never Was
SILENT F&SF MOVIES ON YOUTUBE 1914 - 1919
Part three of a comprehensive listing of all silent movies that are considered fantasy or science fiction and available in some form on YouTube. For details, see the Introduction on Silent F&SF Movies on YouTube 1895-1906. Click here for 1895-1906. Click here for 1907-1913. Click here for 1920-1929.
Abbreviations
d director
p producer
s screenwriter
c cinematographer
se special effects
lp leading players
co- in collaboration
1914
Der Golem (the Golem), also The Monster of Fate
1:06
d Heinrich (Henrik) Galeen
co-s Heinrich (Henrik) Galeen and Paul Wegener
c Guideo Seeber
lp Paul Wegener, Lyda Samonova, Carl Ebert, Jacob Tiedtke, Rudolf Bluemner
Note: fragment
His Prehistoric Past
21:39
d/s Charlie Chaplin
lp Charlie Chaplin, Mark Swain, Gene Marsh, Fritz Schade, Al St. John, Frank D. Williams, Cecile Arnold, Hank Mann, Alice Howell
Note: parody of The Primitive Man (1913)
1916
Hoffmanns Erzählungen (The Tales of Hoffman)
50:16
d/p Richard Oswald
co-s Richard Oswald and Fritz Friedmann-Frederich
c Ernst Krohn
lp Werner Krauss, Lupu Pick, Rely Ridon, Friedrich Keuhne, Kurt Wolowsky, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Alice Scheel-Hechy, Thea Sandten, Louis Neher, Ernst Ludwig
Note: based on the The Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach's opera adaptation of stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in particular "The Sandman"
Homunculus
1:16:07
d Otto Rupurt
s Robert Reinert
c Carl Hoffman
lp Olaf Foenss, Friedrich Keuhne, Ernst Ludwig, Albert Paul, Lore Rueckert, Max Ruhbeck, Lia Borre, Ernst Benzinger, Margarete Ferida, Ilse Lersen
Note: Originally produced in six chapters, each over an hour long, with a run time of 401 minutes; condensed to three parts totalling 275 minutes in 1920; this fragment is the longest available
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1:38:42
d Stuart Paton
p Carl Laemmle
c Eugene (Tony) Gaudio
lp Allen Holubar, June Gail, Matt Moore, William Welsh, Lois Alexander, Dan Hamlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton, Howard Crampton, Wallace Clark
Note: based on the Jules Verne novel
Verdens Undergang (The End of the World)
1:17:28
d August Blom
p Ole Olsen
c Axel Graatkjaer
lp Olaf Foenss, Ebba Thomsen, Carl Lauritzen, Johanne Fritz Peters, Frederik Jacobsen, Alf Bleutecher, Thorleif Lund
Note: English intertitles
1917
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A Clever Dummy
22:40
co-d Herman C. Raymaker, Ferris Hartman, and Robert P. Kerr
s/p Mack Sennett
lp Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Wallace Beery, Juanita Hansen, Claire Anderson, James Donnelly, James Delano
The Dinosaur and the Missing link, A prehistoric tragedy, also The Dinosaur and the Baboon
6:36
d/se Willis O'Brien
p Edison Film Company
Note: stop-motion animation; IMDb gives it as 1915
1918
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
18:15
p Herbert W. Dawley
d Herbert W. Dawley
se Willis O'Brien and Herbert W. Dawley
lp Willis O'Brien, Herbert W. Dawley
Note: stop-motion animation with live actors; Strickland/Ackerman give it as 1919
Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars), also The Airship, The Sky Ship, 400 Million Miles from the Earth
1:24:24
p Ole Olsen
co-s Sophus Michaëlis and Ole Olsen
c Louis Larsen
lp Nicolai Neiiendam, Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Alf Blütecher, Frederik Jacobsen, Svend Kornbeck, Birger von Cotta-Schønberg, harold Mortensen, Lilly Jacobsen, Nils Asther
Note: Hardy gives the date as 1917; Michaëlis novelized the movie as Himmelskibet in 1921; English intertitles
The House of Hate
33:25; 22:15; 26:17
p Astra Films and Louis J. Gasnier
d George Brackett Seitz
s Bertram Milhauser
lp Pearl White, Antonio Moreno, Paul Clerget, J. H. Gilmour, John Webb Dillion, Peggy Shaner
Note: 20 episode serial; only episodes 1, 2, and 5 appear to be available
1919
Die Spinnen (The Spiders)
1:12:51 (part 2 only)
d/s Fritz Lang
p Erich Pommer
c part 1 - Emil Schuemann; part 2 - Karl Freund
lp Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Paul Morgen, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Keuhne, George John, Paul Biensfeldt, Rudolf Lettinger, Edgar Pauly, Meinhardt Maur
Note: Made in two parts, Der Goldene See (The Golden Sea) and Das Brillianten Schiff (The Diamond Ship); English intertitles
Unheimliche Geschichten (Tales of the Uncanny), also Eerie Tales
10:28
d/p Richard Oswald
co-s Richard Oswald and Robert Liebmann
c Carl Hoffman
lp Nita Berber, Reinhold Schünzel, Conrad Veidt, Hugo Döblin, Paul Morgan, Georg John
Note: Originally an anthology consisting of five separate stories - this frament is an adaptation of Robert Lewis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club"