Cinematic Era: 1923 Vintage

Lonesome Luck is a 1923 silent film.

Dashing through the snow; on a six-horse open plough... The streets are ready for sledging in 1920s Buxton.

Charlie is a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the back room.

Cabreira Hill. A village dominated by patriarchal tradition: the woman takes care of the household or picks up wood; the man takes care of the cattle or chops down trees to produce coal. After doing time for a crime of passion, a sailor arrives, becoming an element of fascination, changing things.

James Parrott, little Sammy Brooks, Baker and Jones ("the strong guy" = the drunk) are all workers on a construction-sit run by violent and exploitative boss Noah Young and it is a "building a skyscraper" comedy.

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

A study of Eille Norwood's make-up changes for Sherlock Holmes, in his performance of 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' in London's West End.

Two couples arrived to the village where an old legend of a ghost with the deadly kiss circulates in.

Jean Moeller and his brother-in-law Paul Holston both study medicine.

Cross-Play (A reflector light play) Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, 1923 This copy was produced in 1965 with narration.

Life at the boarding school is all fun and games for the two friends, Bess and Dott. However, one day Dott receives an ominous letter from her solicitor: Her wealth has dwindled, and she must leave the school! Hard times set upon the young woman who gradually loses everything. However, Bess is not soon to forget her good friend and she decides to come to poor Dott’s rescue. (Stumfilm.dk)

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Indians have taken lovely Ruth Bryson prisoner, but handsome Bob Benson, who has managed to locate the secret entrance to the memorial altar room, and attempts a rescue in the nick of time!

Eugenie, a young girl with a delicate temperament, runs away from the sordid cabaret run by her mother. Helped by a providential coincidence, she became a model in a fashion house on the Champs-Élysées.

Chun-hyang, is secretly engaged to marry Mong-ryong Lee. Lee leaves for Seoul with his father and the new governor, Hak-do Byeon, begins coveting Chun-hyang.

Early music video.

In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.

A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.

The everyday life of the Karesuando Sámi at the Sarek Mountains, near their camp, the sita. Traditionally, the Sámi have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping, and sheep herding. Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. The genetic makeup of Sámi people has been extensively studied for as long as such research has been in existence. Ethnographic photography of the Sámi began with the invention of the camera in the 19th century. This continued on into the 1920s and 1930s, when Sámi , against their will, were photographed naked and anatomically measured by scientists,.

When oil is discovered just outside a small New England town, the residents go wild at the prospect of newfound wealth, and they invest their money with the head of the venture, a young man named Bruce Merlin.

Dziga Vertov documentary on flying.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Animals on Noah's Ark hold a night of fun on stage, featuring Farmer Al Falfa as Noah himself

"No discovery of our time has so moved the whole world," proclaims an intertitle introducing this special extended newsreel edition. For once, Topical Budget's characteristic hyperbole is on the money. The discovery and excavation (some would say grave-robbing) of the tomb of the 14th Century BC Egyptian pharaoh was already an international sensation by the time this newsreel screened in February 1923. The sense of breathless excitement surrounding the discovery extends to Topical's intertitles, which expend a good portion of the film's running time explaining the relatively fleeting, poor quality images of the excavation itself. But we do get to see the removal of an ebony, ivory and gold chair, and two glimpses of expedition leader Howard Carter - in long-shot from behind as announced in an intertitle, but also a much clearer, unheralded shot at the 'halfway rest house', where he cuts a dash in white shirt and trousers.

Two war orphans, Joseph, apprentice printer, and Lisette, typist, live with their grandmother in Belleville. Lisette loves his next door neighbor, the painter Amedee, but this one does not offer him a union. Joseph Amedee learning is the son of a general, advocates for Lisette and everything ends in marriage.

Don Armingo, a member of the Secret Service, is inspired while dancing the tango to join a group of smugglers at the Mexican border. As he is about to make the arrest, they take flight, kidnapping Don's sweetheart. Following in his airplane, he circles above the getaway car and plucks the girl from the tonneau cover just as it speeds over an embankment.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

The Adventure of Jón and Gvendur is a silent comedy inspired by Charles Chaplin. It is regarded as the first Icelandic feature film as it was directed, written and produced by Loftur Gudmundsson.

Newsreel coverage of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's wedding cake. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

The documentary shows the evocative seascape and land of the island of Caprera pausing to illustrate the house of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the relics, the testament and other objects that belonged to the hero of the Risorgimento. Garibaldi's last wife, Francesca Armosino, accompanies some guests to visit the park surrounding the villa before paying homage to her husband's gravesite.

A horse owner saves a girl jockey from being kidnapped by a knight.

Summer has arrived, and people are fleeing the sun-scorched, stony streets of the city. Pat and Patachon also leave the stifling streets behind to spend the summer in the countryside. Armed with a homemade camera, they hope to earn a living by taking photographs, though their efforts are not particularly successful. By chance, they come across an inn owned by the formidable Mother Hulda. She quickly sniffs out their attempt to make their escape without paying their bill, and while Patachon is forced to stay as collateral, Pat sets off to make some money. He becomes the subject of many unpleasant mishaps along the way, while Patachon is coerced into becoming engaged to Hulda and gets entangled in a conflict between Hulda, her daughter Grethe, and Grethe’s boyfriend Erik. (Stumfilm.dk)

Short animated film

A comedy short by and for Carter DeHaven.

Entry in Hal Roach's "Dippy Doo Dads' series of comedy shorts. All roles are played by animals. Partially lost.

Documentary following Roald Amundsen's expedition from Seattle to Nome in Alaska and further to East Cape and up to the iced poles in C.S. Homes.

Felix helps Willie do his chores.

Gabrielle is caught while attempting to rob the home of philanthropist William Chatfield, but, rather than turn her over to the police, Chatfield offers her a home and rehabilitation.

"Lights of the Abyss". Anita Berber enchants men and women as the seductive goddess Astarte.

When the Kellys Were Out is an Australian feature-length film directed by Harry Southwell about Ned Kelly. Only part of the film survives today.