Cinematic Era: 1920 Vintage

On Our Selection is a 1920 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd.

This short film presents the champion cowboys of the world in a series of remarkable stunts, including riding, roping, steer throwing, etc.

Martin Berger’s 'Menschen' serves as a harrowing socio-cinematic autopsy of the human spirit, adrift in the wreckage of a post-war landscape. Far from the escapist fantasies that often dominated early Weimar screens, this 1921 opus delves into the penumbral existence of the disenfranchised. The narrative follows a fatalistic trajectory, where the characters—portrayed with a raw, almost primitive intensity—grapple with the crushing weight of systemic indifference and personal moral decay.

A 1920 film.

A cartoon from the J.R. Bray Studios with Rummy and friend buying a girdle for his wife.

A silent-era "Jerry on the Job" cartoon by Walter Lantz.

In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.

Club wants to make rich people opium addicts and inherit their wealth.

Amalia is the housekeeper at C.A. Nilssons home, they argue and she leaves him. He employs a servant and decides to travel to Åre to find his future wife.

Two women fights for the same man in a world torn apart and lacking a moral compass. The first is a social climber, shameless and a rich seductress. The other is a decent and sincerely loving young woman from a common background. The man initially falls in love with the first lady, till he understadns that he is dealing with a man-eater. And changes focus to the other woman. This is a short film

After losing his fortune, the Marquis de Monfort lives in the back cabin of his old castle, thanks to the charity of the current owner, Camillo, a former servant of his. After the death of his son Pierre in the war, Camillo returns the goods to de Marquis, due to the paternal love he feels for his daughter, Pervanche. Years later, Pierre turns out to be alive and appears at the castle demanding his inheritance from the young woman. The discussion is settled when they get married.

During his wanderings through the countryside, the student Niky meets the actress Eva, a member of a film company who has come to the countryside to film. However, because the director of the company has fallen into the water, the filmmakers, including Eva, are forced to leave early. Out of grief, Niky gets drunk and bathes in the pond. A thief steals his trousers and Niky is forced to go home wearing only his shirt. On the way, he sees a drying cassock on the fence and puts it on...

Monty Banks comedy produced by Warners.

A man is seen by a hen, which is sitting on a nest. The three little men enter, the hen eats one of the men's hats and drinks iron potion. The man takes the egg with him, tries to warm it up, a blacksmith hits it with a hammer and a scientist examines the egg, but none of them succeed in breaking the egg. The egg is thrown out of the window and a road worker tries to hammer the egg - without success. The man sees a cannon, the egg is shot out of the cannon and lands by the three little men. The egg breaks open and a hat comes out. Stumfilm.dk

A 1920 silent film directed by and starring Carlo Campogalliani who supports Bartolomeo Pagano in the role of Maciste.

Sirkeci Pasha wants his wayward son Ahmet to marry a virtuous woman. Disguised as a beggar, Ahmet falls for Enis. But consumed by jealousy, he orders her death.

While traveling on her honeymoon, newlywed Milly Morehouse overhears her husband Bob boast to his friend Dick Elliot that she was "easy to get," so Milly decides to get even.

Homesteaders battle a cattle baron, who is trying to drive them off the lands they have settled on so his cattle will be able to graze on it.

A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.

Snooky continually rescues a couple of small children from the depredations of adults.

This film tells the story of the fictional Dr Barnay and recounts his experience of the First World War. He works as a doctor in a military hospital and has always been committed to bringing about the end of war. When his wife dies in an air raid, he spends all of his time working on an anti-war invention to distract himself, and in the process neglects his new wife and his child. When the child is killed in an accident because of his machinery, he ends up pushing away his wife and best friend and focusing solely on his invention. In the end he sees the error of his ways, reconciles with his wife and friend and realizes that peace for humanity is something which comes from within.

An agit-film about the struggle of Ukrainian peasants against the White Poles. A young woman, the daughter of a blacksmith taken prisoner by the White Poles, and a Red commander organise a partisan unit. One scene depicts the capture of a Polish landowner attempting to elude capture. He had been hiding from the Red Army soldiers in a barrel. The peasants nailed the barrel shut and, having inscribed the words: ‘To Warsaw – to Mr Piłsudski’, threw it into the Dnieper. Lost film.

While walking the streets of Damascus, Georges Hanet, French artist, hears a woman's screams. He rushes to the place and finds Kora tied to a whipping post and swaying from the unmerciful beating of her master. He rescues and frees her.

A New Yorker on his first trip out West falls in love with a beautiful woman he sees as he steps off the train. An hour later he finds himself forced at gunpoint to marry the very same woman, then is forced to fight the girl's family and friends to keep her.

The divorce lawyer Vinner manages the house, and his wife manages the law firm.

A screen adaptation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem.

German vampire movie from 1920.

Bud, Suzie and their cat fall asleep reading Huckleberry Finn, and dream of travelling down the Mississippi in a raft of their own.

This is a very early feature by Rolf Raffé concerning the supposedly "mad" King of Bavaria, Ludwig II, probably the first feature film concerning the life of that King. In the piece, which is for the most part a straightforwards historical biopic from the DW Griffith school of narrative filmmaking, Ludwig is portrayed as an Idealist who cannot fit into the world of his contemporaries.

A man escapes from a revolution in Ruritania and saves his beloved princess from her crooked brother.

The Kelly Gang is an Australian feature-length film about the Australian bush ranger, Ned Kelly. The film was released in 1920, and is the second film to be based on the life of Ned Kelly, the first being The Story of the Kelly Gang, released in 1906

A Hank Mann Arrow comedy.

Quirky chemist Eben Lamont has discovered a powerful new explosive and plans to turn it over to the government. Richard Leslie, the head of an explosives manufacturing company, offers to buy his new discovery, but Lamont turns him down. Afraid that his formula will be stolen by Leslie, Lamont uses invisible ink to tattoo part of the formula on his daughter Grace's shoulder. A spy for a foreign government finds out about it, kills Lamont and kidnaps Grace, hypnotizing her so she'll tell him where the formula is. She is rescued by Leslie in the nick of time, but her troubles, as it turns out, are not yet over.

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

'Old knight's new wife throws first husband down well and tries to burn blackmailing gardener.' (British Film Catalogue)