Cinematic Era: 1922 Vintage

Mauxion ad by Pinschewer.

While serenading Kitty, Felix is knocked off the fence by a lamp that is thrown at him. It turns out to be a magic lamp, and when the genie of the lamp appears and grants Felix a wish, he decides to make a trip to Africa, which he believes will make Kitty love him even more.

A 1922 documentary.

In Paris a Count's enforced wife takes the blame when her ex-lover is killed by the diplomat she loves.

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate feed and tend the young cuckoo, even to the detriment of their own chicks.

A short film with all kinds of comic complications between poor Mr. Ras, his nephew Jimmy, a monkey, a girl with a doll carriage, and a large dog.

The heroine must marry one of three prospective bridegrooms who are all lunatics with odd fake facial hair to inherit $500,000. When one of the spurned bridegrooms releases a bunch of lions to disrupt the ceremony, the result is a lot of ROARS AND UPROARS. Will love triumph, or will the lions mess everything up?

A Secrets of Nature short, shot in a Zoo.

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician named Gyp Lassiter, even though she is really in love with Stephen Cameron, a young lawyer. When she discovers that her husband has conspired to support segregationist policies in exchange for support by white political power brokers, she objects to his crooked dealings and gets herself imprisoned in a secret dungeon where her husband had murdered his previous wives. Presumed to be a lost film.

A Tarzan-esque adventure film.

Images of school life at the first HBS (Higher Civic School) in Haarlem, in a film made for its anniversary.

Extracts from the official film record of the Prince of Wales' tour of India and Burma from 1921-1922. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

"Be bold, young man, be bold!" repeats Judge Barbachon to his clerk Belhomme. Putting the precepts of his boss into practice, Belhomme first tries to seduce Madame Barbachon, and is thrown out of the house. Moving on to the capital of the region to look for another job, Belhomme meets a charming young lady on the tramway. He continues to follow the advice of Judge Barbachon...

War drama about a woman hero, in love with a military engineer and coveted by his odious collaborationist krauts . She does not give in to the blackmail of a German who is lying to her about her fiancé's alleged death. The only remnant of the Belgian production of the Frenchman Bergerat.

A crooked lawyer is thwarted in his designs on the heroine by the hero, who discovers oil in the outfield of the diamond where he is playing baseball.

It showcases the finest details of the La Punta festivities, especially the queen, Miss Ángela Velarde Kemish, and her court of honor, the carriage parade, the reception held at the Rocca family home, and many other details. In addition to the La Punta festivities, the film presents a series of scenes of Lima life in which La Lusitana [referring to the singer Lidia Ferreyra, nicknamed La Lusitana] appears.

A silent comedy starring Willy Fritsch and Uschi Elleot.

Lost Dora Film production

A man decides to sleep in a house he has recently bought. He is warned by a tramp that the house is believed to be haunted. Then, that night....

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

The English Rugby team are overpowered by a dominant Welsh team at Cardiff Arms Park.

Eager voters swarm to Trafalgar Square to witness the election results.

Lost film.

In St. Moritz, the best master runners fight for the victory palm in ski jumping. After the award ceremony, it is decided to go on a fox hunt through the Engadine, and the winner of the ski race, Hannes Schneider, is chosen as the fox. He is not allowed to cross certain limits and must be captured by midnight. 25 of the best runners chase him on skis through the uniquely beautiful landscape in this scavenger hunt. He misleads them again and again with clever traps and gains more and more advantage.

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Despite some damage to the original nitrate film stock, this film of the fighting in Dublin between the forces of the Free State and rebels holed up in the Four Courts building is as remarkable as the Topical Budget newsreel's claims for it. Never before had a British cinema audience been brought so close to such fighting - and so close to home.

This remarkable footage highlights the events that happened in Dublin during the Civil War from June 28th to July 5th. It depicts the devastating use of artillery by the rebels against the Four Courts and the shootings and battles around O’Connell Street, Abbey Street and Portobello Bridge. Free state soldiers are seen handing out supplies to civilians at Hickey & Co on Talbot Street, rebels fire from street corners and buildings are firebombed on O’Connell Street. The Red Cross drive through the city as smoke and flames billow out of buildings around them.

An installment of the Aesop's Film Fables series in which a mouse earns the respect of a lion by freeing it from a hunter.

The lying in state of the body of the Antartic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in Montevideo, Uruguay, and its transfer to ship for burial on the island of South Georgia, 1922.

A Sexton Blake mystery.

William Van Doren Kelley, inventor of the Prizma color process, premiered 'Future' in anaglyphic 3D, in New York around Christmas 1922. Two 3-D films, Plasticons (1922) and New York City (1922) were shown under the name Movies of the Future. Originally about 14 minutes long, it is considered the second known public screening of a 3D film after The Power of Love (1922). The name Plasticon was possibly derived from Kinoplasticon, a process popular at the Scala Theater in London around 1913. A second film was made by William Crespinel, formerly with Kinemacolor and now the main cameraman with Prizma, called Thru’ The Trees: Washington, D.C. (1923). These films, although popular, were merely demonstrations and Kelley did not continue commercially pursuing 3D films.

Credited to one 'D.W. Grippet', this amateur parody film attempts to poke fun at the epic docu-fictions of its day. Apparently adapted from Henry Handel Richardson's novel "The Getting of Wisdom".

Experiments with Stereoscopic film. This film was released on 17 December 1922 in the Ives-Leventhal stereoscopic (3D) process. It was re-released on 22 September 1924 in New York City with sound recorded by the DeForest Phonofilm process. The same effect of the Plastigram Glasses can be achieved by inverting a pair of anaglyph 3D glasses, making cyan on the left and red on the right.

While stealing some bones, Felix loses his tail. However, he goes to the tail shop to get a new one. He is then adopted by a rich woman who gives him as a mouser. The mice, though, have their own plans for Felix, which include framing him as a food thief in order to get the owner to kick him out.

John Morton, a sea captain, saves the life of heiress Elsie Haynes when she is shipwrecked. When the two reach port, they are married despite Morton's disfigured face, injured in rescuing the girl. Morton grows wealthy, but believing that his wife shuns him because of his ugliness and uncouth manners, he disappears and is believed to be dead. During his absence, he has plastic surgery performed on his face, returning it to a natural contour, and is educated in social graces.

Hans Cürlis films Lovis Corinth at work. "In the physical act of applying the colour spots, Corinth discovered something: drama, tempo; things were processes, in the technical sense also, which were brought together in the unity of expression" (Carl Einstein). Cürlis makes this visible.