Cinematic Era: 1926 Vintage

Turkey Day, football game, symphony, hair salons and other locations in Okmulgee, OK; Muskogee, OK; near Little Rock, AR; St Louis, MO; and England, AK.

Silent film footage of the Black Sunday Valentine's Day Bushfires of 14th February 1926 which swept the regions of Dandenongs and Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. Thirty-one lives were lost and the township of Powelltown was mostly destroyed. This film was used as a promotional fund-raising film for a bushfire relief fund which raised many gifts and around 100,000 Australian pounds.

A journey along the shores of the Western Scheldt river in Belgium (upriver).

A animated commercial for Stomatol toothpaste.

Animation featuring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A U.I.C. production. C/U of the artist Sid Griffiths sitting at a desk with a small easel in front of him. He takes a cigarette out of a case and puts it into his mouth. He lights it then moves a newspaper away from the easel to reveal Jerry behind it. Jerry protests: "Half a minute, boss. I was reading the football news!" Sid shakes his head "No time for that now - we've got to WORK!" Jerry replies "I'd rather play football!" Sid draws Jerry a beach ball. Jerry attempts to kick it but falls over backwards instead. He looks stunned. A question mark appears above his head which turns into a ball then falls on Jerry's head. Sid then cuts around the football so that when Jerry kicks it, it moves. The ball bounces along and Jerry runs after it. The ball eventually crashes into the fence around a football stadium. It bounces off the fence and knocks Jerry over.

Animation featuring Jerry the Troublesome Tyke - a cartoon dog. A U.I.C. production. A poster advertises the first appearance of Jerry on the stage in a production called "Tiny - The Lump of Intelligence." The theatre is the Empire. C/U of a real hand placed on a piece of paper. Through a camera dissolve a pen appears in the hand. The artist begins to draw shapes on the paper which eventually turn out to be Jerry riding on the back of an elephant through the countryside. Jerry and the elephant arrive at the stage door.

Jerry the Troublesome Tyke (a cartoon dog) swims in the sea He performs a spectacular dive in and out of the water. He then swims around with just a snorkel sticking out of the water. He emerges and submerges then sticks his upper body out of the sea and blows a jet of water out of his mouth. He swims along doing the front crawl. He looks very alarmed to see a whale swimming by him. His ears elongate. He screams and waves his arms in the air. Suddenly he is lifted out of the water by the whale - Jerry stands on his back.

Jerry is stranded on a desert island. He comes across Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe's parrot pecks Jerry's finger so he plucks it from its perch and swings it around by the tail. Crusoe is listening to a radio set through headphones. Jerry borrows the headphones and dances to some music. He then walks off, smashing the radio by accident as he does so. Jerry almost falls off a cliff. He takes out a buried treasure map, he dreams of all the riches he will acquire, money, a car, a big juicy bone.

At the end of the First World War, women had a strong desire to assert themselves and claim their femininity. The twenties were therefore a genuine turning point in the history of fashion. Young women would be daring for the first time. They adopted tomboy cuts, shortened their skirts, burned their corsets and accessorised.