All Films

Ko-Ko Smokes

1926 • 5 min • United States of America

Max draws a big cigar and Ko-Ko and Fitz want to smoke it. Max's coworker smokes up a storm in the office until the fire marshal arrives.

Sunderland Roker Regatta and Festival August Bank Holiday

1926 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Roll up, roll up, for all the fun of the fair as Sunderland celebrates the August bank holiday.

Long Live the Bull!

1926 • 15 min • United States of America

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.

Dinky Doodle's Bed Time Story

1926 • 7 min

An artists, trying to tune into a certain radio station, gets Fairyland instead. Humpty Dumpty, Mary and her little lamb and Tom the Piper's Son are all there...

Perils of the Coast Guard

1926 • 56 min • United States of America

When Coast Guard Captain Tom Norris, at Point Lobos, Maine, save Natalie Aldridge from drowning, a romance blossoms much to the dislike of Carlton Aldrich, Natalie's uncle, who wishes her to marry Lonsdayle. In spite of her uncle, Natalie and Tom are married and live in a small cottage near the Coast Guard station, and Aldridge ignores them. Tom is assigned to capture the oyster pirates and does so, but the pirate leader escapes and plans to keep Tom from testifying against his men by kidnapping Natalie.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 7

1926 • 16 min

Ships, ship travel, and royal locations in London and Liverpool, England; well-known and typical sights in Paris, Versailles, and Marseilles, France.

Mischa Elman

1926 • 7 min • United States of America

Violinist Mischa Elman performs a set of two of the most recognizable popular classic violin pieces: "Humoresque" composed by Antonín Dvorák, and "Gavotte" by François-Joseph Gossec. He is accompanied off screen by pianist Josef Bonime, although Bonime's instrument can be seen in the background behind Elman on screen. In one continuous single shot, the stationary camera focuses in squarely on Elman as he performs the two pieces.

Family Scenes

1926 • 20 min • Brazil

In Cenas de Família, Persici records both playful personal moments and everyday happenings throughout the municipality of Castelo. The filmmaker tours around the state of Espírito Santo by car and train overjoyed with the registration possibilities of his camera. Today, Cenas de Família, which is the only surviving film of Persici, is considered to be one of the most important historical documents of early Brazilian cinema.

Luton's Jubilee

1926 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Hat's off to Luton for pulling out all the stops as residents celebrate its 50th anniversary of becoming a municipal borough.

Colorful Fashions from Paris Displayed by Hope Hampton

1926 • 8 min • United States of America

McCall’s Color Fashion News

And George Did!

1926 • 21 min • United States of America

George working at a construction site.

A Regular Scout

1926 • 60 min • United States of America

Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. Upon discovering that one of the gang members killed in the raid was the long-lost son of the Monroe family, so he decides to impersonate him to exact his revenge on the their family.

Flying Wheels

1926 • 20 min • United States of America

Having caused her father’s auto business trouble by slacking off and not showing up to work, Wanda Wiley finds an ingenious way to help. His company is entering a car race but needs a driver. Wanda steps in to try to win the race. Hijinks follow.

Hearts and Spangles

1926 • 59 min • United States of America

Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.

After the Blizzard

1926 • 4 min • United Kingdom

North Wales feels the chill in this picture-perfect glimpse of the calm after a winter storm.

The Invincible Shuar People of the Upper Amazon

1926 • 15 min • Ecuador

Scenes of daily life in the Indian communities of Ecuador.

Alaskan Adventures

1926 • 33 min

In 1922 and 1923 Young traveled to Alaska accompanied by cameraman Jack Robertson. Neither carried a firearm, relying solely upon Young's osage longbow for protection. Young took mountain sheep, mountain goat, moose and an Alaskan brown bear on Kodiak Island. Many of these hunts were captured on film and later released under the title Alaskan Adventure.

Ko-Ko's Queen

1926 • 11 min • United States of America

Ko-Ko convinces the animator to draw him a woman, but she turns out to be scrawny and ugly. He takes her to a beauty parlor and plumps her up, then shaves the back of her head and slaps a mask onto it. She wins a beauty contest, but they're both thrown out when she can't sit on her throne, thus exposing the ruse. Ko-Ko draws himself a new girl, who comes to life.

Behind the Lines

1926 • 8 min

Elsie Janis entertains the troops from the back of a truck. She calls a French soldier up to sing with her, then dances to an American song while everyone sings, and finally shares the stage with an English soldier.

La Fiesta

1926 • 10 min • United States of America

Anna Case sings a song while the Cansino family dances in the background.

London After Dark

1926 • 7 min • United Kingdom

This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river and the bright lights of Piccadilly at night. Then the film moves off to the old Elephant Theatre on the New Kent Road, where Slaughter stars in a military melodrama. After the show, the film ends with a look at the Rowton House in Southwark, a hostel for the poor much admired by George Orwell.

25-year Jubilee of Bacska Szabadka Football Club

1926 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Short silent film.

Mode de Paris

1926 • 5 min • France

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.

There She Goes

1926 • 6 min • United States of America

A woman gets caught in the rain on her way to meet a Tinder date.