Cinematic Era: 1927 Vintage

Silent film social drama

Blocks of clay become vignettes from Washington's life.

The Girl on a Swing is a 1926 German silent film directed by Felix Basch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, and Lotte Lorring.

Humor short film made by amateurs, under the direction of Claudio Gómez Grau. Played by José Armengol and Francisco Vilanova.

Big Boy was discovered by an American sergeant in the Trenches in the Great War

To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion.

A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Sailor Lupino Lane goes on shore leave with his messmate Wallace Lupino. Each has a girl in this port, but little do they suspect that the girls are twin sisters.

A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.

A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by a series of mystifying occurrences, and their relationship ultimately develops into a feud.

Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.

A newlywed couple, after six months of marriage, decides that they've made a mistake and plan to divorce. Her father, however, has other ideas and hatches a plot to make them realize that they really do love each other and should stay married.

Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Baron Conrad Wirvelpihl get hit in the head and lose his memory.

A Yasuji Murata version of the classic Japanese story Saru Kani Gassen.

Master plumber Otto Engel has worked his way to a certain degree of prosperity through hard work. In the young and virtuous Elise, the pretty daughter of the local court clerk, he has found a sincere admirer who loves him more than anything. But Otto has eyes only for Ada, a dancer whom he considers far more exciting and whom he spotted some time ago at an outdoor café. In his love-stricken delusion, he is determined to marry the “sinful” Ada.

The tourists set off for the Mountains of the Alpes Maritimes, visit the medieval hilltop of Tourette, and play in the snow.

A propaganda film about the beautiful country Norway, meant for tourists abroad.

Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations.

A girl, Anita Wayne, finds herself an heiress of her mother's estate, but learns that her father lives in Alaska. Determined to find her father she travels to a mining town in the Klondike, but runs into "Cash" Gynon, a villainous saloon keeper, who claims to be her father.

A short film starring Van and Schenck.

Hans and Elinor are in love, but have to meet clandestinely to avoid the keen eyes of the headmistress at the home for girls where Elinor lives. When they are discovered, they seek refuge in a Chinese gazebo used by the vagabonds Pat and Patachon as a cheap summer residence. However, the two vagabonds quickly vacate the premises to let the young couple stay there. As a thank you, Hans, who is a sailor, enrols Long and Short as part of the crew on his rich uncle’s boat and invites the entire girls’ institute and its headmistress on a sailing trip. In disguise, Hans hopes to spend some time with Elinor, but once again they fail to deceive the headmistress. Long and Short now come upon the idea of hiring a brickworks, whose owner turns out to be Elinor’s uncle. But mysterious things happen at the factory, which does not make entirely ordinary bricks, and Long and Short find themselves caught up in yet another heady drama. (stumfilm.dk)

Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.

Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.

Sally, a young girl in New York City, goes for an adventure when she takes the subway for the first time.

A group of bandits look for a treasure map.

Bandits kidnap an old prospector, threatening to let him starve if he refuses to reveal the location of his gold mine. The old man's partner, hoping to get a share of the loot, tells the place to the crooks.

Socialite Joan Higham visits the bachelor apartment of Floyd Benham and a blackmailer photographs her there. She then tries to protect her reputation and her relationship with Jerome de Witt.

Directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.

Lost film. Commonly regarded as the first animated short film in China. The film was combined with live footage, about an artist working in his studio. Suddenly he is disturbed by a small paper person jumping out of the page causing an uproar. Modeled after the American "Out of the Inkwell" series.

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.

Directed by Svatopluk Innemann.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Heads Up, Charley is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Ellen Richter, Anton Pointner, and Michael Bohnen. Marlene Dietrich appears in a supporting role.

During the roe deer hunt, which was organized by the representatives of the upper class, one of the members of the detachment mysteriously dies. Newspaper reporters are conducting their own investigation into the murder.

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

The further adventures of the group of tourists on a trip around the French Riviera. From Cannes they travel to Juan les Pins, the Grimaldi Chateau in Monaco, Port-carre, Antibes and the pottery makers of Biot. A love interest developes between Ophelia Beetle and Apollo Naris, an Englishman, while the Arab Sheik, Abdrool Krimp is vamped by Mme. Papillon.

During a feud between remote families, a dog saves the day.

Last of the series of short films starring "Fearless the Famous Police Dog."

'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)

The story of Kamol, a young sheriff assigned to catch the sightsee that escaped in Bangkok. During this time, Kamol met love with Walee granddaughter. But she has a young man who is Wing, which is true, he is the villain who is looking for Wing therefore plans to eliminate the thrill with ingenuity. And the versatility of fighting, making him successful both in work and love.

Raman and Radha are together, sharing for the first time genuine conjugal happiness, Radha is also happy because she has, presumably, killed her internal demon with a message from Krishna, that she finds Him in her husband. But then the demon resurfaces again: the nightmare continues.

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

Eleventh episode, third series, of The Gumps 2-reel series.

Released on July 3, 1927