Cinematic Era: 1926 Vintage

In San Cebrian , a coastal village, Rosa hoped the return of her fisherman husband Juan, with her daughter Nuri and her godson Sardinilla, but they found him dead after storm. Friends of the family, Antonio and Rosita, with Sardinilla decide to look for a treasure with the help of a map that kept Rosita. His enemies, Tomas and Andres, try to take it by deception.Andres, plus interest in Rosita, the beloved of Antonio, is a victim of Tomás greed's but, when he's wounded, Antonio and Sardinilla return him to the good track.

This film is the pearl of his pioneer work in Madeira Island and captures the most of his methodology: good stories taking the most of Madeira's natural scenery, and provoking the audience with some ironic and "double-sense" scenes. The film tells the story of an English girl travelling with her father, a botanic, and a guide from madeira in the deep mountains of the island. The girl has some mental disturbs and is always scaring about an attack from the native man, appearing as a half-man/half-monster.

Felix disappoints his kittens because he promised to take them on a picnic but couldn't because of bad weather. He flies to the clouds to see Jupiter Pluvius' weather-making machine, which he blames for his predicament. He manages to get the machine to work for his advantage while getting back at Jupiter in the process.

Animation featuring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A U.I.C. production. Jerry appears through a hole in a theatre stage, jumps up and takes a bow. He looks around and starts talking. Intertitle reads: "Ladies and Gentlemen: You will be delighted to hear that the famous pianist Ottstuffski is unable to appear, and therefore, I have been asked to deputize (sic)"

A feud exists between two outback families, the Blakes and the Ridgeways, caused by Sam Ridgeway having married a woman Jim Blake was in love with. The feud goes on for over thirty years.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes.

'Billy Merson, the great Nottingham-born music hall performer, presents one of his signature numbers. The film clearly captures Merson's comic brilliance - he not only sings, but dances, skips and indulges in a lot of creative business with a lyre. Merson had been making films since 1915 and Desdemonia is often cited as Britain's first sound film.' (Robin Baker, BFI)

a Pete Pup Cartoon

A dedicated firefighter is forced to retire after an injury.

A political film written by statesman Shimpei Goto advocating for universal suffrage.

Animation featuring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A cartoon curtain rises. A U.I.C. production. M/S of Sid Griffiths reading a newspaper. He folds it up and looks at his drawing board. He sees Jerry walking along with a bag of golf clubs on his back. "Hello Jerry, where are you going?" asks Sid. Jerry walks along and says "Golfing!" Sid sits back in his chair and says: "Off to the links, eh?" Jerry says: "I've got my own." Sid scratches his head. "Own what?" "Links!" Jerry holds out a cufflink. It has the initials AO and FB on either side. Sid scratches his chin. Dissolve into some sheet music. It is the song "The More We Are Together" and is the official song of the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers. (Presumably this is what AO and FB stands for). Dissolve back into shot of Sid at the drawing board. He wags a finger at Jerry. "Beware of the 19th hole!" Jerry looks puzzled. He puts his cufflink in his pocket.

A man plays to enter a yacht race, but is injured in a car accident. His girlfriend takes his place and wins the race.

About the participation of the exiled Russian revolutionary in the struggle of the Sami against the arbitrariness of the tsarist police and predatory merchants. Lost movie.

In the autumn of 1924, Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, at the invitation of Minxin Film Company (one of China's earliest film studios), filmed excerpts from his iconic opera repertoire in Beijing.

Animated sequences concern the adventures of an American sailor and his dog in Italy. Live-action sequences show American sailors visiting Venice and Milan. Includes brief shots of Mussolini.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

A masterful innings by Australian batsman Macartney in the third test at Headingley.

Fantastic fun film showing how girls get to be one of "Cochran's Young Ladies".

Documenting the trip of the airship "Norge" across the Pole ocean, called Roald Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobiles flying expedition 1926.

Short silent film about some models of silk stockings.

Bob Witt and Cy Berg perform "My Honolulu Hula Girl" and "Hello, Aloha (How Are You?)" in this early Vitaphone short.

A short, hand-tinted promotional film made by the D'Oyly Carte Opera company to show off the new wardrobe and set dressing for the 1926 production of The Mikado. About six scenes from The Mikado are shown, then designer Charles Rickets steps onto the stage with a final look at the costumes and the film ends. The players in the production are legendary Savoyards, well-known from recordings of the period, but this is the only time a movie camera caught them in their roles, though sadly minus the singing. About four nitrate prints of this film are known to exist; two of which are at the BFI in London.

Felix sees a smoke ring rising from a cigar, and wonders where they go. He finds out that they wind up in the clouds, home to a race of giants. He steals a giant bottle of milk and is chased back to Earth by the giants.

Private eyes Mutt and Jeff are on the trail of the ghostly shape-shifting criminal, the Phantom.

In the heart of Amsterdam's Jordaan district, hardworking widow Bet Mager runs a laundry business with her mischievous son Piet and the good-natured Cobus. When she hits the lottery jackpot of 100,000 guilders, Bet leaves the business with Cobus to sell and jets off to Algeria with Piet. From the Kasbah to the desert, Bet plunges into wild adventures—even daring to ride a camel despite her less-than-'skinny' figure. After an exhausting but thrilling journey, she returns to the Netherlands, where a sold business and an unexpected romance await.

Everyday wintertime life of Sámi reindeer herder Inka Länta and her family, mingling authentic and fictionalized takes.

The love of a young woman, Dolorcitas (Ana Giner), descended from a less aristocratic family is disputed by her husband, an enterprising entrepreneur, Melchor Llorens (Leopoldo Pitarch), and by an old and young suitor, Daniel Soler (Ramón Sernequet), a young man with a cradle and a waste of family wealth. This one through the blackmail puts the name of the young woman in question. The festival of Moros y cristianos, in which both are captains, will serve to unmask the young man, save the girl's name and redo the happiness of his marriage.

A vaudeville sketch act set in Roman era. A servant woman dances but is sent away by Emperor Caesar, who is continuously hailed by his personal assistant. Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox (later of The Crazy Gang comedy team) come in to entertain the emperor by performing a slapstick comedy dance. An early sound film, using Phonofilm with spoken gags by Caesar and his entourage take place largely throughout. The BFI print appears to be edited with parts in the wrong order. The surviving film is also incomplete.

'Brighter Blackpool Beauties' in bathing costumes parade themselves by the poolside.

Krazy Kat cartoon.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

Very rare documentary images from the travel diary of Angelo Drovetti, embarked on the steamship Regina d’Italia, a majestic steam passenger ship, along the Lloyd Sabaudo line, from Genoa to Australia through Egypt, the Middle East and India. These are the unpublished and exclusive images that document the crossing of the first large group of 85 Italian emigrants to the Australian coasts in search of fortune. In this excerpt the vessel crosses the beautiful landscapes of Naples and Capri.

A film by the Tianyi Movie Company

A promotional film made by the Catholic mission, about the populations on the islands of Bali, Flores, and Timor in the Dutch East Indies, and also about the activities of the mission in the fields of medical care and education.

An endless line of women, bent over the towpath of the Naviglio Grande, washing clothes one after the other. It almost seems that, if Baldassini had continued his overview, the whole canal would have been filled with industrious housewives, as far as the eye could see - the same breadth that the canals offer as they head south along the Lombard countryside.

Probably the earliest film in the world to be shot underground. Views of the spectacular Postojna Cave, with its stalactites and stalagmites. A noted tourist attraction, this 20-kilometre network of underground passages, chambers, and galleries has had a railway line since 1874, and was first lit by electricity in 1884.

Short documentary about crickets.

Documentary about Africa.

The unsuccessful artist struggles to feed his young family. He takes on a job painting the daughter of an widowed art dealer. What he doesn't know, is that the art dealer desires his wife. The artist himself falls in love with the art dealer's daughter.

Felix plots revenge against his owner for throwing him out.

In Cenas de Família, Persici records both playful personal moments and everyday happenings throughout the municipality of Castelo. The filmmaker tours around the state of Espírito Santo by car and train overjoyed with the registration possibilities of his camera. Today, Cenas de Família, which is the only surviving film of Persici, is considered to be one of the most important historical documents of early Brazilian cinema.

This non-fiction feature produced by the Citroen automobile company features a car which makes a trip across the African continent.

Hans Cürlis films Kandinsky at work.

The Indian-detour, in the Southwest on a Fred Harvey Company motor tour.

A priest hears in an act of confession protected by ecclesiastical secrecy the author of the crime of a powerful rancher that the townspeople attribute to his young girlfriend.

When a family moves away, a dog with three puppies are left on their own. It's time to find a new family.