Cinematic Era: 1926 Vintage

Churches, offices, a winter scene, a theater, and a residence in Indianapolis, IN, and Muskogee, OK.

Made with Technicolor technique, this documentary presents to the world for the first time the terrible cycle of this endemic evil.

In this very politically incorrect and very weird cartoon, Mutt and Jeff run into some unfriendly natives.

A animated commercial for Stomatol toothpaste.

A city symphony of Berlin.

Animation starring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A U.I.C. production. The cartoon artist Sid Griffiths sits at his desk with a piece of paper on an easel in front of him. He dips his pen in the inkpot and begins to draw. He draws some spots which spin around the page then eventually turn into our old friend Jerry. Jerry says to Sid: "I want a holiday!" Sid asks: "Do you think you deserve one?" Jerry nods his head. "Very well. Off you go!" says Sid. Jerry shouts "Hooray!" Jerry walks along, suitcase in his hand and wearing a very jaunty cap.

C/U of the artists hand as he draws Jerry's lower half. Jerry keeps walking around so the artist doesn't have a chance to finish the drawing. Jerry jumps around. The artist writes the words: "Come here!!" Jerry stamps his foot and says NO. The two have an argument. The artist gets a drawing pin and pins Jerry's foot in place. The artist draws the rest of him. He is punching the air and looking very cross. Shot of Jerry on a piece of paper balanced on the artists drawing board. Jerry looks scared and shakes his head.

C/U of the artists hand as he draws a wheel with something moving inside it. When the wheel suddenly expands it turns out to be Jerry sleeping in front of a fire. Jerry snores and his back moves up and down. In another room a man prepares to play a saxophone. The man has a stretchy neck which extends when he looks at his music. He plays and notes come swaying out of the instrument. He taps his foot. Some of the notes turn up in the room where Jerry is sleeping and they move around and over his body.

We see a cartoon artist sketching at his desk. Closer shot of the paper he is drawing on reveal him to be drawing Jerry. He props Jerry up on the table and wags his finger at him: "Stay there till you're wanted!" reads an intertitle. The artist gets up. Drawing of an urban landscape with radio communication wires stretching across the sky is shown. The wires vibrate. Cut back to Jerry. Words come out of the radio which is standing next to the sketch of Jerry. "Hullo everybody! In one minute you will hear the bedtime stories!" Jerry looks pleased and jumps off the page and into the horn of the radio (it is a funny looking radio that has a small round dial attached to an ornate horn like an old gramophone.)

Jerry wakes up in a bad mood and throws a shoe at his alarm clock. He finds that a letter has come for him. It is a letter on headed paper from Pathe Freres Cinema Ltd. letting him know that arrangements have been made for him to film "Big Game in the Tropics".

Touring Club Peruano. Filmed by Guillermo Garland.

Filmed by Guillermo Garland.

Filmed by Guillermo Garland.

Mr. A.B. Leguía, vigorous spirit shaping the most transcendent national reforms; Communal authorities who have contributed to the success of the festivities; The old carnival; The beautiful candidates for the 1924 crown and Her Majesty Carmen I; The queen of Callao; Other sovereigns; Aspects of the lively game; The gracious queens of Lima and seaside resorts with their courts in the 1925 carnival; The children's reign; The Moorish queens, a nocturnal vision of the carnival; The parade of the artistic floats; A bouquet of cherubs; Pierrot, the eternal and romantic, and Columbine, the incorrigible flirt, a precious silhouette; The dawn of the 1926 carnival; A piece of news that brings joy; Pepe's tribute; Her Majesty Luz Mila I; The gracious queen receives the tribute of her people; Luzmila I has her fairy hands to caress the children because in her heart beats the feeling of the sweet and venerable matron Doña Juana Alarco de Dammert.

Unfortunately, the Censorship Board has tragically misunderstood its function. Its selection process should prioritize, above all, the expected artistic merit and intellectual capacity of its members. The board uses three main weapons with inexplicable cruelty: prohibition—a certain film must not be shown for three or four reasons utterly lacking in reasonable grounds, as in the case of Heroic Pages; the scissors, with which they cut scenes; and the classification system, the criteria for which are unknown. The results are as follows: 90% for men only; 8% for adults and young ladies; and 2% for children.

One of Adams Filmi Oy's first films, and the only one that has survived from the company's silent era documentaries. It depicts the test run and inauguration of the large bridge over the Kokemäenjoki River in Pori in September 1926. "Well, it's just a matter of time..." "Well, it should be..." The new bridge was inaugurated on September 26, 1926, and the last pedestrians can be seen crossing the old Charlotta Bridge.

Marcus takes the original drawings from his own pen and converts them into the cartoon characters of the best known newspaper artists such as Harry Hershfield, Rube Goldberg, Cliff Sterrett, George McManus, etc.

Trick photography techniques like slow motion, repetition and reverse photography combine with some amazing stunts to make this more than just a demonstration film. Part of a series of sports films made in 1926, Sport & Interest in a Fresh Light, it features Britain's first Olympic diving medallist, Miss Belle White, springing from the high board in a display of fancy diving. A champion fancy swimmer then shows how it's done - even with his hands and feet tied! (BFI)

Insights into the automobile production line at Studebaker.

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.

Krazy Kat cartoon

Krazy Kat Cartoon

Indian horror movie from 1926.

The Dungeness lifeboat crew launched their brand new motorised lifeboat.

A Life Comedy Cartoon.

The 300 anniversary of the city of Säter.

Experimental film

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A barnyard burlesque entry in Paul Terry's "Aesop's Fables" series in which the farmer, the cow, the pigs, the cat and the mice all violate all natural laws pertaining to them.

A cat is on the hunt in the woods with a shotgun. He comes apon a boy and girl mouse who are on a date. The cat throws the boy mouse in a lake, and runs off with the girl mouse to his cabin. When the boy mouse awakens, he finds that he can't swim very well. A "big-hearted fish" puts on a saddle and lets the mouse ride him. They ride throught the water, and the fish even hops across the grass. The mouse arrives in time to rescue his girl and punch out the mean old cat.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Felita the cat

People and places around Stockholm, Sweden.

Travelogue.

Election propaganda film by the SDAP, which finds visual arguments for the new housing policy of the city government in a comparison of imperial Vienna and the misery of the suburbs

A secret deal over a iron ore mine brings two adventurerers from Europe to Colombo, Hong Kong, Macau, and Kyoto followed by a spy, who wants to close the deal for himself.

A marine and a jealous husband vie for the affections of an actress.

70-second-long footage of the coronation of Reza Shah Pahlavi in the Brilliant Hall of Golestan Palace on April 25th 1926 captured by Khan Baba Motazadei.

Felix steals a fish from the line of a fisherman, but finds that there's no place he can eat it in peace.

We cannot criticize Varietà di vita nel mare for having shut its world in an aquarium: it is a melting pot of extraordinary creatures that are somehow real. It is the only appearance of a comatulid (phylum Echinodermata, class Crinoidea) on the screen as far as we know. (Andrea Meneghelli)

Concerns the First World War. The images are authentic and made by the film service of the French army. Shots showing the proceedings of the war in various places in France and Belgium, such as Reims, Aisne, Verdun, Flanders, Froideterre, Vaux, Fismes, Soissons, Cantign and Lassigny. Mainly of the years 1917 and 1918.

Report on a school in the Keistraat.

A collection of documentary pictures from various cities, including a snow storm in New York. (FLM146089)

Views of Vigo, Baiona and the river filmed by an affected dancer arriving in Vigo on a cruceiro. These images form part of a larger film that collects a touristic tour of Europe. Film recovered by Filmoteca de Catalunya and Det Danske Filmmuseum, was restored by CGAI in 1995.

This vintage 1926 Christmas short produced by the Ford Motor Company, a partial adaption of the classic “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (aka: “The Night Before Christmas”), comes from the Ford Historical Film Collection and was recently digitized by our colleagues in the Motion Picture Preservation Lab.

Pete the Pup is the victim of a series of pranks by his animator / creator.

Bonzo the pup has adventures at the zoo with a zebra, tiger, elephant, and pelican. The pup is mistaken by the keeper for a "striped bonzosaurus." Shorter version of ‘Bon-Zoo’.

A dissolute English advocate goes to the guillotine in place of his aristocratic double.

Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and Galilee, Israel.