id: Unidentified Film No. 068
director: Unknown
year: Unknown
country: Unknown
alternative titles: Auschnitte aus Stummfilmen

IT: "Der Hilfskreuzer Geier wird nach mehrwöchiger eigener Kreuzerg´fahrt [sic?] wegen Abnutzung seiner Maschinen versenkt." ("The armed merchant cruiser Geier sinks after a long cruise of several weeks due to the galling of its engines.") - Greenish image: The cruiser [frame scan 1] sinks.

Length: 24.5m
Format: 35mm, 1.33:1
Picture/Sound: coloured, silent
Notes: Redish IT; No edgecode.

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

The picture shows another German ship named Geier, namely the armed merchant cruiser SMS Geier which is described here:
http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/auxcruiser/geier/index.html
The film in question relates to the second voyage of the armed merchant cruiser SMS Moeve as described here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_M%C3%B6ve_(1914)

The picture shows another German ship named Geier, namely the armed merchant cruiser SMS Geier which is described here:
http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/auxcruiser/geier/index.html
The film in question relates to the second voyage of the armed merchant cruiser SMS Moeve as described here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_M%C3%B6ve_(1914)

The first reel of the film "Graf Dohna und seine Möwe" can be seen on the European Film Gateway site. This reel is held by the EYE Film Instituut Nederland. They have the film reel titled as "Duitse od". The fragment of film shown on this page is probably from the second reel of "Graf Dohna und seine Möwe".The original film was comprised of four reels.

Another fragment from the film "Graf Dohna und seine Möwe". This part of the film shows the auxiliary cruiser Geier, which was a captured British cargo ship named the Saint Theodore. The ship was commissioned in mid-ocean into the German navy and re-named as the Geier. Probably at least fifteen minutes of this film still exist, so that it is not quite totally lost.

Although we're grateful for the suggestion, it is highly unlikely that this film could be the 1912 Éclair production Saved from the Titanic, starring genuine Titanic-survivor Dorothy Gibson (see the film's Wikipedia entry for more information).
As the surviving intertitle mentioned in the content description above indicates, the ship in question here is the German cruiser S.M.S. Geier. Detailed information about the Geier can currently be found on this German website. There it notes that the Geier happened to be stationed in the Mediterranean Sea at the same time the Titanic was sinking far away in the Atlantic Ocean on its way to America.
Additionally, the film in question here appears to be a report of the sinking of the Geier, which did not occur until 1918. So, the film could not have been produced before then.

"saved from the titanic",1912