Cinematic Era: 1922 Vintage

The viewer is first reminded of the places where Molière was born, studied, played his works and died. Then, through engravings, Molière is seen performing at Versailles and in front of Parisian audiences. Finally various actors of the Comédie Française interpret selected scenes from Molière's work among which "Le dépit amoureux","Tartuffe", "Les précieuses ridicules", "Le Misanthrope", "le bourgeois gentilhomme", "Don Juan" et "Le malade imaginaire". Firmin Gémier performs a scene froùm "L'avare".

A man wins a Derby bet despite his rival framing him for theft.

A 1922 film.

Produced by Elena Sangro and funded by the Commitee of Motenegrin Exiles (including the former Queen Milena), the film tells the full story of the heroic conduct of Montenegrin people during the First World War.

An episode of the glorious patriotic series, born after the Armistice: the martyrdom of a girl from Marcinelle, shot by a German soldier because she threw her brioche at a starving soldier in captivity.

Anson Dyer's animation of the age-old fable, made for Hepworth.

Amancio, the son of a judge, is the real master and lord of a town, and wants to impose his property criteria over the owners of ranches and horses. He stops the eviction of Eulalia’s family ranch, with the hidden intention of making her his lover. Silvestre, an outsider that arrives at the village, meets Eulalia by chance, after suffering a zulky accident. He will find trouble as well, as his horse doesn’t have a property mark.

Felix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.

Walter makes a Movie was directed by Tom Seymour and Walter Forde in 1922. Forde plays a petty thief who steals from film star Pauline Highbrow (Pauline Peters). Pursued by the police he ends up in the Star Film Company's studio during the shooting of her latest melodrama.

Silent Mexican documentary.

It includes: closing ceremony of the year at the Chorrillos Military School, in the presence of Mr. Leguía and Marshal Andrés A. Cáceres; official attendance at the funeral of His Holiness Benedict XV; swearing-in of the 1922 Flag; Te Deum at the Metropolitan Basilica for the birthday of the President of the Republic; the Argentine classic at the Jockey Club of Lima

In one corner of the room, a cinematographic apparatus had been installed, graciously loaned by the Lima Theater and Cinema Company, and at the back a screen, on which was projected the beautiful and detailed film that Mr. Larco had impressed some years ago and which reproduces in all its aspects the development of agricultural work on the great Chiclín estate and very interesting facets of social life in the town adjacent to the estate, especially drawing attention to the scenes of the celebration of the national holidays in a brilliant manner on the estate.

Aunt Isabella, a bitter spinster, tries to prevent a young couple from getting their happily ever after, but fails. In a turn of events, she finds love for herself.

Crofter’s daughter Britta catches the eye of several men: Cronhjelm, the son of a landowner; her intrusive neighbor Ola; and Baron von Gyllenbock.

Formosa depicts the landscapes, architecture, customs, culture, agriculture, natural scenery, Indigenous peoples, and colonial traces of Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule. It also reflects how the world at that time perceived and imagined Taiwan. This film is the earliest known surviving motion picture shot in and about Taiwan. This introductory documentary was donated as a duplicate print by the Netherlands Filmmuseum (now Eye Filmmuseum) in 1991. According to the museum’s records, the nitrate print dates to approximately 1922. However, based on the research of scholar Lee Daw-ming, the film may have been shot as early as 1917 by Herford T. Cowling. The exact date when the original positive film was produced and its subsequent whereabouts remain unknown. Formosa is preserved and presented by the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute in 2025.

The arrival of Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho in Rio de Janeiro. The reception in Catete, the mass in São Cristóvão, etc.

Lost Dora Film production

We start with a demonstration of the bootleg bottling process before the liquor bottles are smashed into barrels by law enforcement. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Job Abramonoff, the leader of a Jewish community in Russia, is arrested for the ritual murder of Sonja Mulnikow, the little sister of Sascha, a gentile and the childhood friend of Job's daughter Manya. Sascha, who is sympathetic to the plight of the Jews, is led to point the accusing finger at Job against his better judgment. He reads a book, "The Philosophy of Race Prejudice," which tells how Maneth, the Egyptian high priest, tried to dupe Alexander the Great into believing that his young friend Cassander was the victim of such a sacrifice by the Jews. Convinced of his error, Sascha tries to save the Abramonoff family and stop the pogrom that began when Job was arrested. Sonja is revealed to be alive and well, but it is too late: the mob has broken into the prison and stoned Job to death. Horror-stricken, Sascha confesses to Manya that he was prejudiced and asks forgiveness.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An eider duck defend her nest and eggs agains sea gulls

Andy Simpson, constable, blacksmith and all-round mechanic of Millbrook, a thrifty little southern town, is looked upon as slow, plodding, and lacking in ambition by all save Margie Watkins, his sweetheart and daughter of the bank president. Margie, however, becomes attracted to J. Overton Tighe (a partner of James Bradford, notorious promoter of "wildcat" investments), who is newly arrived in town in an expensive car. Despite Andy's warnings, the townspeople eagerly buy shares in a phony stock promoted by Tighe.

Japanese horror movie from 1922.

German silent horror movie from 1922.

Essex County cricket team get some much needed practice in the nets at the County Ground, Leyton.

Studies of vapor, water, ice and snow showing water in all its forms, its sculpturing effects, power as steam, natural water power and its great importance in modern life.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Filmed from a tram, we see the Utrechtseweg, with imposing villas on both sides of the street, including the country house ‘Ma retraite'. The film also contains footage of the ‘villa quarter’, the town hall, the Hotel Figi on Het Rond, and the Donkerelaan, as well as Slot Zeist, surrounded by woods and water.

Professor Zeppelin builds a rocket and takes it to Mars. There he meets King Schnidriboemel and his daughter Marselientje. Photography on Mars is prohibited. The Professor gets into all sorts of conflicts with the Martians; the king has Fox frozen.

Footage of bricklayers shot by film pioneer DB Phalke

Pathé Frères, at the time the world's largest company in film production and pioneers in documentary films, visited Kiruna and Malmberget in 1913. The result is a fantastic insight into the mining of that time.

Adapted from a Belgian novel

Senorita Ruiz - the famous Spanish dancer - shows how to wear the Mantilla.

Felix and his pal go on an adventure.

After locksmith Joe Sands is acquitted of charges he cooperated in a burglary, master criminal Steve Benson, who poses as a philanthropist, asks him to join his gang. Joe refuses, but because his crippled brother needs an operation, he robs a safe. Joe is caught, but Sadie, a member of Benson's gang, saves him. Because Joe again refuses Benson's offer, Benson turns Joe over to the police. Joe is saved from prosecution by the man whose safe he robbed, the physician who operated on his brother. Finally, Joe, Sadie and the brother start life over in the country.

Swedish documentary on African birds.

The story is that of Heza Gobbler and his wife, Ima Gobbler. Both were of normal size in their more youthful days, but a few years after they have “settled down” the extra fat has settled down on them so heavily that when they receive an invitation to a banquet neither can get Into the “glad rags” which have laid unused in their trunks for several years. When Mrs. Eaton Growthin, who was bridesmaid at their wedding, calls, Mrs. Ima Gobbler is moved to envy by her slender, graceful figure. Mrs. Gobbler is introduced to a specialist by her more slender friend, and in a few minutes receives his brief outline of the simple home method which she is to follow to lose weight. She follows the easy method for five months, and when she returns to the specialist’s office, his scales show that she has lost forty pounds. An entertaining story and clever comedy have been combined In "How to Grow' Thin” with a vital lesson to the great number of people who have a tendency to “grow fat.”

A lost Croatian film.