All Films

The Indian-detour

1926 • 16 min

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

When Giants Fought

1926 • 31 min • United Kingdom

A contentious but historic boxing match of 1810 is vividly revisited in this power-packed silent drama.

When a Filmcutter Blunders

1926 • 14 min • Germany

A film editor makes a mistake when editing the picture and watches in horror at the film's first public screening.

Met het SS 'Patria' der Rotterdamsche Lloyd naar Nederlandsch Oost-Indië

1926 • 48 min • Indonesia, Netherlands

Report of the departure of the SS Patria to the Dutch East Indies.

Should a Girl Propose?

1926 • 44 min • Australia

Should a Girl Propose? is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by P.J. Ramster set in the high society world of Sydney. The film featured several players from Ramster's acting school. It is considered a lost film.

Hints and Hobbies No.11

1926 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Jiu-jitsu for ladies, how to get ink off a white apron and other life essentials courtesy of the 'Hints and Hobbies' team.

Scenes at his Excellency the Viceroys's Garden Party at Belvedere

1926 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

Hungary

1926 • 23 min

Travelogue.

A 'Wet' Rag at Cookham

1926 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

White Water

1926 • 27 min • United States of America

"White Water" is a short drama about lumberjack country. Nell Shipman plays a girl in love with nature and animals. One day she meets a crippled boy, who sings for pocket change. When she finds out that the boy is badly malnourished, Nell Shipman takes him under her wing and finds work for his elder brother. Then one day disaster strikes when the boy, who can't swim, falls into the river and is carried downstream. Nell Shipman jumps in a canoe and paddles frantically to reach the boy before the current takes him to the rapids, where mortal danger awaits.

Red Hot Rails

1926 • 5 min

The cartoon stars a couple of monkeys. One is kidnapped and the other gives chase while a dog and his pirate buddies try to stop the hero monkey.

Bajo la mirada de Dios

1926 • 58 min • Argentina

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.

Duty and Sacrifice

1926 • 20 min • Romania

A story about countryside in Romania a little before WW1.

The Riding Rascal

1926 • 50 min • United States of America

Larrabie Keller, a homesteader, is accused of being a cattle rustler, and when Keller refuses to fight Phil Sanderson, whose sister, Phyllis, has struck his fancy, he is insulted by Bill Healy, to whom he administers a severe drubbing. Phyllis, finding Keller beside a branding fire, believes him guilty; and when he is wounded by Healy, she takes Keller to Yeager, another homesteader, who cares for him and to whom he reveals that he is a Texas Ranger.

Behind the Scenes with the Bootleggers

1926 • 3 min • United States of America

This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor..

Spirals

1926 • 6 min • Germany

In 'Spirals' Oskar Fischinger designed visual patterns of extreme complexity which often develop in overlapping cycles, yet he interrupts these patterns with radical editing of single frames of contrasting imagery. 'Spirals' exists as a fragmentary unfinished experimental film. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.

David and Goliath

1926 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 12

1926 • 11 min

Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and Galilee, Israel.

Dinky Doodle in Egypt

1926 • 8 min

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.

El amor, el deber y el crimen

1926 • 28 min • Colombia

A young and beautiful woman is soon to be married. However, her plans are complicated by the attraction she begins to feel for the painter who paints her portrait, who is also a boxer.

My Kid

1926 • 20 min • United States of America

Bog Boy is no longer the baby of the family and is jealous of his newborn brother.

Schaffende Hände: Wassily Kandinsky in der Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf

1926 • 3 min

Hans Cürlis films Kandinsky at work.

Car Assembly, Calcutta

1926 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

Teresa de Jesús

1926 • 6 min • Spain

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.