3:00 p.m.	Shanghai’et! Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen (Denmark, 1912)

By 1912, the internationally popular "white slave" genre—in which an innocent girl is abducted into a life of prostitution—had nearly exhausted itself. The Danish Nordisk Films Kompagni tried to revive the genre with a number of spin-offs including Captured by Mormons and the gender-reversed Shanghai'et!, advertised as a clarion call against a danger that "has wrecked the lives of thousands of honest youths": "Men as Victims of Slave Trafficking." In this film, Willy, a naive young sailor, is drugged and abducted, leaving his fiancée Lilly to don menswear and rescue him, with the help of an athletic young barmaid. The girls' misadventures presage the plucky "serial queens" of the 1920s, while rewriting the damsel-in-distress narrative of the "white slave" films. In the movie's final embrace, it's not clear whether the lethargic Willy or the barmaid is a better match for Lilly.

—Laura Horak

• Written by P. Lykke-Seest. With Clara Wieth, Cajus Bruun, Carlo Wieth, Christian Schrøder. (42 mins, Silent with Danish intertitles and live English translation, B&W, 35mm, From Danish Film Institute)

Preceded by shorts:
The Baby and the Stork (D. W. Griffith, U.S., 1912). Little Bobby (Edna Foster) isn't too sure about a recent addition to the family in D. W. Griffith's comedy of errors. (18 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm, From Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Lillian's Dilemma (Wilifred North, U.S., 1914). Lillian sneaks into her brother's all-male boarding school, with unintended consequences for one dandyish young teacher. (22 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm, From Library of Congress)

• (Total running time: 82 mins)