Cinematic Era: 1926 Vintage

"Out of the Inkwell" cartoon by Fleischer Studios.

Schools in Haskell, OK; Coweta, OK; Gibson Station, OK; Checotah, OK; and Boynton, OK.

The artist, Walter Lantz, goes to a masquerade ball and Dinky and his dog take a nap. Dinky dreams he is a cartoon character in Egypt where he falls in love with a princess. He goes to her father to ask for her hand but the old mummy playing poker with the father claims the girl, but the pharaoh degrees it must be settle by a chariot race. Dinky has trouble with his chariot-horse as it has a wooden leg, and insists on chewing on the old mummy in the other chariot, making the wrapping unfold and disclosing an old man with long whiskers. Dinky wins the race just as the artist returns and wakes him from his nap.

British documentary.

A Mutt and Jeff cartoon.

The Leopard is a "western" type film where the "cowboys" are replaced by huasos who defend themselves against the misdeeds of a bandit who assaults the region with his excesses.

Silent western comedy starring Charles Puffy

Metropolitan Opera star Marion Talley sings "Caro Nome" from Verdi's opera Rigoletto in a short film made in the Vitaphone process and shown before the feature Don Juan on 6 August 1926 at Warner's Theater in New York City.

The Honorable Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, speaks directly into the camera about the important new technology to enhance the motion picture going experience, namely Vitaphone which allows the synchronization of the picture on screen with sound. Its development is important if only because of the importance of the motion picture as the chief amusement to millions in the American public. It allows the inclusion of music directly into the motion picture, music which already plays an important role in the motion picture in the pre-Vitaphone era. However, it allows symphonic music to be incorporated, which many of the small hamlets across the country could not afford to provide in their own movie houses. Vitaphone was developed by the Western Electric and Bell Telephone Companies, and is also greatly attributed to the work of Warner Bros. Pictures.

Farmer Alfalfa brings a watch-dog home to guard Thomas Cat and Milton Mouse. The animals indulge in a little scrap and get the upper hand on Al, the dog and a passing tourist.

Animation featuring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A cartoon curtain rises. A U.I.C. production. A white dot appears on screen which opens out then turns black. Jerry suddenly appears in the middle, first a black blob which changes into the Jerry we know and love. He grabs the side of the circle, pulls it towards him and it changes into a newspaper. He reads it. He sees an advert which says: "Wanted - 100% House Dog Able to tackle anything. Apply 13 Easy Street."

Animation featuring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A U.I.C. production. A mouse with a rifle over his shoulder paces backwards and forwards on a window ledge. He looks out and across the landscape. He continues pacing then suddenly stops. He has seen Jerry who is marching along a road looking very purposeful. He is singing "Valencia" The mouse drops his rifle, jumps off the window ledge and disappears into a hole in the floorboards. Under the floor there are 10 other mice.

We see a door which is marked "Jerry - Builder and Decorator." Jerry is in his office sitting with his feet on the table smoking a cigar. He blows smoke rings which do little tricks. He looks at the audience and taps the ash off his cigar. The telephone rings and makes Jerry jump - he looks cross. We see Jerry and the person he is speaking to in little circular cut-outs placed on another image of a landscape with telegraph poles stretching off into the distance. The man Jerry is speaking to is wearing a dressing gown and a funny little hat - possibly Scottish. The man says: "I want you to paper the parlour." Jerry nods and replies: "I'll be on the job in ten minutes!" Jerry attempts to put a wallpaper table together. Slapstick stuff ensues. It keeps collapsing.

The lid of a bottle of ink wobbles around a bit then falls out of the inkpot. Jerry climbs out. He salutes the audience. He stands on top of the inkpot, then jumps off the pot and points his hands at it. The inkpot disappears. Jerry walks along and multiplies, leaving a picture of himself repeating across the screen. Intertitle reads: "Ten little Jerry-boys standing in a line...." They all turn to look at the audience "..One weary pup soon got "fed up"..."

Credited as "The Howard Brothers", these two famous vaudevillians perform a signature stage routine (#349).

Advertising film hawking refrigerators.

The film "El Patio de los Naranjos", restored by the Filmoteca de Andalucía, was shot in 1926 by Guillermo Hernández Mir. A fictional film, based on the director's own eponymous novel, and shot in prominent enclaves in the city of Seville, at the Church of San Lorenzo, the courtyard of the Seminary, the neighborhood of Santa Cruz and the courtyard of the Naranjos de la Catedral , among others.

A "Kaladont" toothpaste commercial.

Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...

A young woman is taken to a fancy nightclub by her uncle, but is stuck with the bill when the stingy uncle gets into an argument with a waiter and leaves without paying. While working off the debt, she recommends some friends of hers as an act for the club. Her friends are hired, but their performance does not go over very well, and soon the whole club is in an uproar.

The documentary film Suomen suojeluskuntaarjärjesto (The Finnish National Guard Organization) (1926), shot by Anton Podworsky, uses images and interstitial texts to highlight the Finns' will to defend their country and the importance of the National Guard in implementing it.

An animated hair cartoon short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

Gwen Farrar, vocal, and Billy Mayerl, piano and vocal, perform "I've Got a Sweetie on the Radio" by Billy Mayerl and Kenneth Western, in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

Photographs of the baby Princess Elizabeth, late Queen Elizabeth II. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

In 1925, the poet and songwriter Ernest Genval goes on an official mission to the Belgian Congo. For about a year, Genval and his collaborator Victor Morin criss-cross the country in order to film its the economic progress and development. In this period they make a series of promotional documentaries for local enterprises, one of which is From Boma to Tshela. The film seeks middle-ground between a travelogue (including some phantom ride shots) and a propaganda film for the cocoa and palm oil trade.

A young man must fight a bull to win the heart of his beloved. This is the oldest surviving claymation film, directed by pioneering Chinese-American animator Joseph Sunn.

Schools, train scene, auto collision, stores, and boy prisoners in Muskogee, OK; Harlinville, OK; Depew, OK; and McAlister, OK.

Socially conscious melodrama.

Western short from 1926.

We find our old friend Jerry sitting on a cushion taking mail from a mail sack, reading it then throwing it into a wastepaper basket. He laughs as he does so. We see one of the cards he opens which reads: "Sweetest Jerry. I feel I must write and tell you what a wonderful film actor you are. P.T.O."

Company of Theaters and Cinemas and Peru Film. Filmed by Manuel Morales.

Feature-length documentary with views of the banquet offered in homage to President Le Guía on October 31, 1926, at a time when the governor's re-election was being prepared.

Film about the first airmail flight from the Waalhaven airport to Marseille, on 29 May, 1926.

Newsreel item featuring footage of the parade through Amsterdam by the crew of the American cruiser Pittsburgh and the memorial service for Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruijter in the Nieuwe Kerk.

Short documentary film.

Students march from in front of the Old Student House to the Snellman statue, with choir singing and wreath-laying.

Running competitions. A car is given to Paavo Nurmi.

The Winking Idol is a 1926 American silent Western film serial.

After the Muezzin has lead the call (adhan) to prayer we pan along the rows of worshippers, who then pray as non-muslims observe the ceremony. An Indian prince can be seen in the crowd listening to the proceeding sermon.

An animated hair cartoon short.

As usual, pieces of hair fly around and take the form of well known characters. This time the different subjects include, William Shakespeare, John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, John Drew, Dorothy Dalton and Tom Meighan.

The story of a London youth and his rise to fame as the world's greatest screen artiste.

The story takes place in the small town of São João, on the border between two states. The tax inspector has always hidden his innermost sorrows from his daughter, who is charmingly beautiful and youthful. These are the result of a mysterious decrease in income at the Post Office, caused by the criminal activity of a gang of smugglers led by an elegant, cunning and cowardly man. An engineer working for the State arrives in the town of São João. Unexpectedly, a brief romance begins between him and the inspector's daughter. The cunning smuggler leader also takes an interest in the young woman. He is not reciprocated. Jealousy and then hatred arise.

A Chinese silent film released in 1926

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

Presided over by ingenuity, Teresa introduces the Saint at various points in her life, as a child, as a teenager and once she has entered the convent.

A Slovenian short documentary film.

An in-depth look at logging transportation.

A documentary about italiens workers who migrated to France.

A home movie featuring footage taken in Oklahoma during the middle and late 1920s by Solomon Sir Jones. It is the sixth in a collection of nine films and consists of a single reel of silent 16mm black-and-white acetate film.

Ponsford, Ryder and Woodfull seen batting in Victoria's record-breaking innings against New South Wales in Melbourne.