Cinematic Era: 1924 Vintage

A peace-loving cowboy who must overcome his pacifist convictions when a good friend is found murdered.

World records tumble at the International and British Games for female athletes, held on 4 August 1924 at Stamford Bridge. One of the stars of the athletics track was London clerk Miss Mary Lines who, after breaking the 120m hurdles world record in her heat, then went on to break another with her win in the 250 metres in the afternoon.

Only a fragment of the film survives. Taking advantage of Carnival season, Álvaro devises a Machiavellian plan to seduce a young woman. When she shows up at his house to deliver a bundle of clothes, he shows her a beautiful gigolo dress and invites her to the town's dances. They would only be for two or three hours. Liz accepts, and together they go out dressed as a gigolo, he as an Apache. Liz has fun with Álvaro, and at one point, they decide to go to the beach. Dizzy from champagne and dancing, she loses consciousness, waking up alone. Desperate, Liz runs to Álvaro's house and discovers that he has left for the north. Disoriented, she wanders the streets until she meets Maneco, an employee of Dr. Elzman. Maneco takes her to the doctor's house, and Liz tells him everything that happened. The doctor, fond of the young woman, decides to protect her.

This social film attacks Bombay's industrial parvenu class, initiating the realist-reformist melodrama as a genre. It tells of the street hawker Devdas, who goes to the city to make his fortune but, once successful, becomes an exploitative cotton mill owner and a callous snob knighted by the British.

One reel survives.

This is a comedy starring a forgotten comic, Lige Conley. It's made by Educational Pictures. The film is full of lots of action--lots. In particular, there were some crazy stunts involving airplanes.

A cattle rustler decides to reform, and helps a rancher battle a gang of notorious rustlers.

An old man tells a girl reporter how he solved a crime.

Love's Detour is a 1924 comedy short

A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.

Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second mother and call her "Nène."

A spoof travelogue of an expedition by three explorers, confusing London and New York with Papua, sending up film effects, censorship and a profusion of other cinema-related targets.

The distinctive loves of Margarida and Clara, the distinct morals of Pedro and Daniel, the goodness of João Semana.

A Motion Picture Play about the Automobile.

By a cold day of September of 1872, two young brothers named André and Julien Volden leave Phalsbourg in Lorraine to grant their recently deceased father's wish. Their goal is to see their uncle Frantz in Marseille

The world-famous stars and married couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are warmly welcomed to Stockholm on the Midsummer weekend of 1924.

The funeral of Vladimir Lenin.

A satirical melodrama based on the short story of the same name by Mikhail Zoshchenko, written in 1923. The film was included in the first issue of the VUFKU film magazine "Mahovyk." Considered lost.

Documentary short about the match between Germany and Italy in November 1924 at the new Duisburg soccer stadion

Doris embodies innocence and kindness, sacrificing herself for everyone. Day and night, she cares for their seriously ill mother, while her older sister Carmen prefers to go her own way. After their mother's death, Carmen takes her to the vaudeville theater, where she becomes a star but remains unaware of the dangers this world holds. For a small fee, her sister sells her to Fredy, who eventually abandons her while she is pregnant out of wedlock. Carmen Cartellieri and Doris Kay portray this contrasting pair of sisters. Innocence and selflessness clash with amorality and egoism: the decline of morals and its consequences are vividly depicted. (Filmarchiv Austria)

Don Armando de la Peña, is the owner of a ranch located in a plain of the mountains of the province of Córdoba, administered by the loyal and honest Pedro Oria, a model of old Creole who lives with his wife and children Juan, Carlos and Maria. The former is lazy, gambling, and bad-tempered, while Carlos inherited the virtues of his father. Don Armando is not satisfied with his children. Mercedes, his favorite daughter, likes life in the big city, she is flirtatious and superficial even when she is in the ranch; she has an attitude of contempt towards Carlos, even after his life is saved, but that attitude hides a nascent feeling of love. His brother, also named Carlos, is what could be described as a bad person. With these characters various dramatic episodes unfold.

In Mexico a girl saves a treasure hunter from a mutinous crew and he saves her from her gambling husband.

A whirlwind tour of London's best-loved visitor attractions, bustling thoroughfares and public spaces, including Threadneedle, Bond and Fleet Streets, Cheapside, the Strand and Piccadilly Circus, amongst others.

This Way Out is a slapstick comedy featuring Bobby Dunn.

Directed in 1924 by Emil Harder, a former Swiss baker who emigrated to the United States and converted to cinematographic art, the film aims to retrace the founding of the Swiss Confederation on the model of The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith (1915). The first major production in the history of Swiss cinema, it was initiated by the company Sunshine-Film through a fundraising campaign in the columns of the Amerikanische Schweizer-Zeitung.

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.

It contains: the 1924 bathing season; Ancón, La Punta, Chorrillos, Barranco, Miraflores; familiar faces; gatherings at the racetrack; party at the Cincinnati; the great Frontón-Callao swimming race; the rough seas of Callao.

The physical horrors of syphilis and co. are on display in this scientific film.

A Stuart reissue of the title 'Trapped' from 1923.

Arboga, Sweden: the train station, the river, the hospital and the market. This silent film is shown with new music by Matti Bye.

Panorama of Judenburg. Transportation of the remains of the leaders of the military revolt shot in 1918 in Judenburg. Reception at Ljubljana railway station and funeral.

In 1922 belgian immigrant François Verstraeten, who married Matilde Anchorena in Argentina, ordered this film so he could show his countrymen the fabulous land that had changed his life. For that, he brought in a film operator from Europe, who spent almost a year moving through the several farms Matilde had inherited and now shared with François. The result was an amazing documentary about the Humid Pampas and modern Buenos Aires.

This two-reel comedy was the second of three shorts in which Will Rogers starred as Congressman Alfalfa Doolittle, a naive and unsophisticated but basically good-hearted guy from the heartland who finds himself rubbing elbows with Washington power brokers.

Two men interacting before a distorted spherical mirror.

A rare glimpse of a unique home movie shot on the grounds of La Cuesta Encantada, more commonly known as Hearst Castle. We will feast our eyes on a stunning tour--filmed in two-strip Tech--with the architect, Julia Morgan, and the Chief himself, W.R. Hearst.

Cora Dean's stepmother is planning to swindle the young girl out of the ranch she has just inherited. Cora loves Dick Sterling, but her stepmother tricks Cora into agreeing to marry her son in order to make it easier to steal the ranch from her Dick learns of the scheme and determines to foil the dastardly plot and win the girl he loves.

On your marks, get set, go! On a cold, wintry day in Battersea Park, women athletes undergo a gruelling training session in preparation for international competition. The well-composed action shots see them energetically sprinting, javelin throwing and performing some spectacular long jumps.

Toys are distributed at a hospital.

Polyteekkarifilmi (Polytekarfilmen) is a Finnish silent documentary film dating from 1924. The subtitle of the documentary is "The story of sport, polytheists and the gods of Olympia". The film aimed to raise travel funds for Finnish athletes traveling to the Paris Olympics.

A 1924 film.

Directed by Noburô Ôfuji.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A young girl from the hills spreads sunshine and saves her employer from financial ruin.

A behind-the-scenes look at Thomas H. Ince Studios in Culver City, California.

Master Andersson does his best to manage both his estate and his family – a lazy wife, two fat sons, and a lovesick daughter.