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Felix helps the police catch a bank robber by hiding inside a money sack and leading the robber on a chase. He next helps nab a thief stealing sponges from a store by the imaginative use of a friendly elephant.
Two competing jewel thieves hunt for a load of diamonds.
Considered to be the father of modern karate and the originator of the shotokan style, Sensei Gichin Funakoshi is captured on this remarkable documentary film demonstrating the Tekki 1, 2 & 3 katas and the meykyo kata shot c. 1924. Shot on location at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan at the Keio Karatebu (Karate club of Keio) which was the first University to adopt Karate into it's physical education curriculum. In addition to Sensei Funakoshi, there is lots of other footage covering the training of the University students and summer training camps (Shochu keiko) at the beach. (Ryukyu)
Collects and documents all aspects of tobacco processing.
Aesop's Fables Studio version of the animal Olympics.
A Clara Bow-type young lovely takes a bath. Then, to her horror, she discovers a raggedy rodent (albeit a weirdly immobile one) on the bathroom floor. A passerby comes to her rescue and, as a reward, sticks around to get "better acquainted." But he (and we) have already seen her in the altogether so what is left to uncover? This anonymously made adult short must have been a popular diversion at men's "smokers" and other private events. Its nudity wouldn't be permissible on public U.S. screens for at least another forty years.
This episode features some favourite Sunday activities of Londoners, including scenes at the Gaiety Theatre and a young couple riding a motorcycle. A romantic scene on London Bridge contrasts with the bustle of Petticoat Lane's Sunday market - a popular destination for the common folk - while high society ride in Hyde Park.
It is a film about the raid on Zeebrugge in 1918. The film recreates this event in a mixture of authentic WW I material including captured German film,drama and special effects using models. This film is an episode from an series of dramatized war docu's that was produced by a company called British Instructional Film.
Felix tries to catch Skiddoo.
Ideal Cinema Company of Callao.
Peruvian Film Company. Short narrative film directed by Alberto Madueño.
Peruvian Film Company. Contains: Cardinal Benlloch's arrival in Lima and the celebrations in his honor; the inauguration of the Las Palmas airfield and the Jorge Chávez school; a party organized by Messrs. Visconti and Velásquez, owners of the Zoo restaurant, to honor orphaned children.
An early Noburou Oofuji film, it was artificially coloured in the senshoku (tinting) method, where the developed film was immersed in dye baths.
1924 silent film.
The film centers on Algot Söderholm's two daughters, beautiful Magda and plain, less desirable Lena. Adapted from the 1910 play by Ernst Fastbom.
Portrait photograph of a woman and a man, possibly of Alfred Träger and his wife.
It looks so formidable, but the diver just fires the mine and up it goes like matehwood!
Lost Gennariello Film production based on the song "Piange Pierrot" by Cesare Andrea Bixio
Tenth release in the 'Q-Riosities by Q' series. Husband kisses the maid who drops the china 1920's . Wife scolds the maid . Husband drinks then goes to bed . Maid thinks the china moves about. Maid shrinks and is taken into the garden by the china . Tied to the stake with matches . He is dreaming and kisses maid. Wife attacks him.
An Italian short movie.
Silent film by Edgar Anzola.
The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers!
A home movie featuring footage taken in Oklahoma during the middle and late 1920s by Solomon Sir Jones. It is the ninth in a collection of nine films and consists of a single reel of silent 16mm black-and-white acetate film.
A home movie featuring footage taken in Oklahoma during the middle and late 1920s by Solomon Sir Jones. It is the fourth in a collection of nine films and consists of a single reel of silent 16mm black-and-white acetate film.
A home movie featuring footage taken in Oklahoma during the middle and late 1920s by Solomon Sir Jones. It is the first in a collection of nine films and consists of a single reel of silent 16mm black-and-white acetate film.
Three children attend an institute bordering a middle school where Lauretta studies. The boys befriend her and decide one night to go see the fireworks, but one of the children is injured by a bomb. This situation causes the injured child's father and nanny to fall in love.
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.
An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.
An Aesop Fables animation.
In 1924 Pavlova (1881-1931) visited the Fairbanks studios, where The Thief of Bagdad was in production, and was filmed on the set in 7 short dances (not 6 as is stated on the original title, which may have been intended for a shortened version of the film). It seems unlikely that this was just an improvisational filming session: the dancer changed costumes for each of the numbers. Beautifully shot, these represent the finest record of the legendary dancer, who, alongside Nijinsky and Karsavina, astounded Paris in the first Ballets Russes season.
Famous dancer Margaret Morris performs her dances in a short film made in the experimental Friese-Greene Natural Colour process.
Cartoon short.
Cartoon short.
Felix tries to nap dog kennel...
The reconstruction and restoration of Dall’Italia all’Equador reveal a dynamic and engaging documentary by one of the greatest directors of photography of Italian cinema, Massimo Terzano. Active for three decades, from the 1920s to 1940s, Terzano demonstrates solid technical mastery as a director/cameraman in this 1924 film. (Frida Bonatti)
The two hobos Luft-Kalle and Coal-Jocke fall asleep one midsummer evening on a hill and dream that the fairy queen gives them a gilded clay cuckoo with magical properties: if you blow on it, you get what you wish for.
The famous brothers entertain a wild audience at the circus, but a single lady seated at the front remains sad and fails to laugh. The men question their popularity and fear that have lost their talent. As they rest backstage, they have a dream: they perform the wildest tricks, the funniest acts, but that same woman is always there and keeps a serious face. As someone wakes them up to go back on stage, they still try to entertain the girl when a famous aviator, back from a dangerous mission appears to the acclaim of the audience and the relief of the young girl who was only anxious for him all along. The brothers, reassured that they were not the cause of her seriousness and proud that they have a hero among the public, gladly go on wit their act.
Lord Samsey murders his uncle in order to get rich. His sister's boyfriend vows to find who the murderer is so he can clear his wrongly accused father.
The earliest animated version of the tale by Hans Christian Andersen is a silent, black-and-white release by director Herbert M. Dawley in 1924.
A pair of lovers devise several plots so that the father of the girl consents their relationship.
A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at Brixton, the Crystal Palace, Woolwich free ferry, Saint Augustine's Tower in hackney, Richmond, Strand-on-the-Green, White City with its old Olympic stadium, and the Old Kent Road.
Felix attempts to procure a meal for a pup in need, but ends up in a kerfuffle with a shape-shifting witch.
Inauguration ceremony for the Unknown Soldier monument, after World War One.
Peruvian Film Company. Filmed by Alberto Madueño.
Ideal Cinema Company of Callao.
Peruvian Film Company. Filmed by Alberto Madueño.
Peruvian Film Company. Filmed by Alberto Madueño.
Peruvian Film Company. Filmed by Alberto Madueño. “With beautiful jumps taken with delayed motion”.