Cinematic Era: 1921 Vintage

Part of the 'Grand Guignol' series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.

Bastian is an unrelenting skirt-chaser who is never put off by a rejection. Unfortunately for Bastian, the women of his city seem resistant to his charms. And unfortunately for the women of his city, Bastian can’t seem to take a hint. However, a young woman is surprisingly receptive and hands Bastian a note: “Meet me at Basse’s Confectionary at five o’clock”. Is there finally hope for Bastian – or for the four other gentlemen, who, suspiciously, have also turned up right on time? (Stumfilm.dk)

After a robbery, insurance fraud and a following blackmail, the industrial Stüven has to flee the country with his young daughter Maria to Africa. After Stüven is killed on the trip, Maria is taken in by a native tribe and worshipped.

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A millionaire daughter is to be married to a man unknown to her. To get to know him, she slips into men's clothes, sticks on a mustache and is hired as a chauffeur.

The fairies receive poetic instructions about making the flowers bloom each day.

A reportage about the manufacture of objects in a copper workshop at Passar Gedeh in Yogyakarta.

A 1921 silent film

1922 picture starring Franciszek Brodniewicz.

A comical satire of a cinema program and operation.

Film shot in Berlin, edited and supplemented in Warsaw. W. Jewsiewicki believes that the copy produced by the German studio contained numerous distortions of the writer's ideas, which is why director Juliusz Zagrodzki entrusted Eugeniusz Modzelewski with rewrites and reshoots featuring the two main characters. Assuming the film's program was faithful, the screen version of "The Beauty of Life" unfolded as follows: Piotr Rozłucki, the son and grandson of an insurgent, was raised in the Mikhailovsky Corps, far from his homeland and all memories. Promoted to officer status, thanks to his family's efforts, he was assigned to a regiment stationed in Poland, and there, at the home of his superior, General Polenov, he met his daughter, Tatiana. Simultaneously, he became close to a circle of patriotic youth. A struggle rages within the young officer: on the one hand, a passionate and mutual love for a charming Russian woman, and on the other, conscience, homeland, and duty.

"Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.

Wonderful glimpse of the Wimbledon tennis championship at its former home on Worple Road, including some of the era’s top male and female players.

Felix tries to commit suicide.

Animated cartoon: Husband and wife getting ready to go out.

First properly animated film produced by Laugh-O-Gram Studio, as part of demo reel. Part of the Newman Laugh-O-Grams Series.

Professor Bradford has a painter's school and a daughter named Alice. Among the students is Mr. Skönberg who is poorly talented but rich, and the professor wants Alice to marry him.

Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.

A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.

Japanese horror movie from 1921.

The simple and honest elementary school principal Taiga (Iwata) was at a loss after the school's donation money was stolen. At that time, he found a bag containing a large sum of money and hid it at home, intending to use it for the school. His wife, who happened to discover it, took the blame upon herself and committed suicide together with their beloved child. Grief-stricken, Taiga resigned from his position and moved to Oshima, seeking to detach himself from the world. Yet life there became nothing but days drowned in alcohol...

Grogg and Kalle interacts with several animals including a kangaraoo and an ostrich among others.

Directed by Baburao Painter.

Wilfred gets a longing to explore the great big world and sneaks out of bed whilst the others are asleep. He is captured by a mole and made to do all the housework. He escapes. Back at the house Pip and Squeak are missing him and call Mr Picklock Holes the great detective.

Pip, Squeak and Wilfred are introduced, and begin a game of hide and seek with many things being broken. Popski the Bolshivist dog is introduced through a letter threatening Squeak.

An Aesop’s Fables animated short.

Frank Hurley (1885-1962) was firmly established by 1925 as Australia's most famous photographer. After World War 1, having filled the position as the first official photographer of the Australian war effort, Hurley became interested in Papua New Guinea. In December 1920, he left Australia to record the work of Anglican missions in Papua and to make "travelogue entertainment". The result was this documentary, "Pearls and Savages" which was released in Sydney, in December 1921.

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Short, silent movie only about half a minutes long about the last moment of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837 - 1898). It was the first film about Elisabeth, directed by her niece Marie Larisch.

A poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.

A hunting comedy full of cartoonish gags.

Comic strip animal favourites of the 1920s continue their epic animated adventure around the world.

Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.

Spirited story of West, which begins after the hero has spent four years overseas and has left the army so much of a fighting devil that he becomes embroiled in a mix-up. Learning that his antagonist has died from wounds is the reason for the hero going West, when he meets a tramp who is on his way to join a gang of outlaws and who invites the ex-soldier to join.

Minnie, the village tomboy, meets a handsome Stranger after playing ball one afternoon. She invites him to see a bridge model her father has designed; but finding her intoxicated father in the act of destroying the model, she swears vengeance on the local bootleggers and joins a newspaper as sportswriter so as to expose their activities. Pike, the station agent, leader of the bootleggers, spreads a scandal about Minnie when she rejects him, but through the help of the Stranger everything is cleared up.

“After falling overboard they spent days in the life-buoy. Their only food was butter; and you soon get tired of only butter." A fish spots Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adrift, and tells his mermaid wife to make a soup from them; she pushes them ashore instead. Landing in Egypt, they take a camel ride to see pyramids and a sphinx, before finding themselves stranded in the desert. There, they find a giant egg and try to cook it, but a crocodile hatches out and chases them away…

The Hallroom boys play "Put and Take" until their top is discovered to have all its sides marked "Take All."

This famous satire contrasts conservative Bengali culture with that of the colonial elite. It is the story of a young Indian who returns to his native land after a long absence. He is so mightily impressed with his foreign training that, at his parental home, he startles everybody with his quixotic notions of love and matrimony.

John Kavanagh, a Maine lumberman, clashes with Stephen Marthorn, owner of a spruce-logging company, when Marthorn orders his men to make their drive before Kavanagh can get his logs down the river.

Misanthrope Raymond Ferray's life of peace and quiet is disrupted by the arrival of his new neighbors the Rovels. Lady Rovel designs on marrying her daughter Meg to the much older Marquis de Boisgenêt. Her mother agrees not to force her, however, if she can find a suitable alternative. Raymond, who despite himself has taken a great interest in Miss Rovel, helps her to find one.