All Films

A Punjab Village

1925 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.

Gus Visser and His Singing Duck

1925 • 2 min • United States of America

An early sound film featuring Gus Visser and a duck.

Bonzolino or – Bonzo Broadcasted

1925 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Bonzo is rejected by his sweetheart, a pekinese called Chekee, who is enraptured by her favourite film stars. However, she readily accepts Bonzo after he has been to Hollywood, and returned as the famous actor Bon Chaney.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 10

1925 • 15 min

Ministers and various other people in Nashville, TN; Beaumont,TX.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 1

1925 • 15 min

Churches, schools, and other locations in Clearview, OK; Muskogee, OK; Guthrie, OK; Langston, OK; and Bristow, OK.

Theodore Case Test Film

1925 • 10 min • United States of America

“An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called “Phonofilm.” Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Sponable then built a laboratory behind Case’s family home in Auburn, New York, where they developed their own optical sound film system. Sold to William Fox, it was commercially exploited as “Movietone” with sensational results.” —David Shepard

Brasil Pitoresco : Viagens de Cornélio Pires

1925 • 25 min • Brazil

A trip from São Paulo to Pernambuco, getting to know the customs and wealth of parts of Brazil.

Join the Cooperative

1925 • 4 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet collectivisation propaganda short.

Fighting the Flames

1925 • 55 min • United States of America

Horatio Manly Jr. (William Haines), the only son of Judge Horatio Manly (David Torrence), is disowned by his father for obstructing firemen during a hotel fire. He later redeems himself by rescuing a young woman, Alice Doran (Dorothy Devore) and a street urchin, Mickey (Frankie Darro) from a burning building...and capturing Mickey's wicked father Big Jim (Sheldon Lewis), an escaped convict.

The Sign of the Cactus

1925 • 50 min

A mysterious rider, known as Whitehorse Cactus, steals from the dishonest water company in order to help ranchers who have been cheated out of their water rights by its crooked agents.

Bustin' Thru

1925 • 50 min

Jack Savage, a rancher, refuses to sell his property to John Merritt, a millionaire newly interested in ranching. Jack later meets Helen Merritt and falls in love with her, not knowing that she is the wealthy man's daughter.

Die Königin der Altstadt

1925 • 47 min • Germany

A theft in her house makes Edith, who lives in a foster family, a suspect. As a punishment, she was taken to a reformatory, but escaped from there and many years later became the “queen” of the old town.

Sonora

1925 • 5 min • Mexico

Abitia traveled the western coast of the State of Sonora filming films "that graphically show the industrial potential of our country, or rather, the opportunities it offers, its material resources, or simply the beauty of its landscapes as an attraction of A few days before, he was in the town of Cajeme and others in the Yaqui region, where he took interesting views of those agricultural fields, of the very modern implements that are used in the cultivation of the lands and of scenes in which the activity that farmers carry out by plowing the plots or gathering their crops ".

Sprechende Hände. Das Taubstummblinden-Heim in Nowawes bei Potsdam

1925 • 40 min • Germany

A documentary with 65 intertitles about life and work at Oberlin House, a home for deafblind people in Nowawes near Potsdam.

The Destruction of Borculo

1925 • 4 min • Netherlands

Reportage about the tornado disaster in the village of Borculo.

Lifeboat Schuttevaer

1925 • 2 min • Netherlands

Demonstration of the reliability of the Schuttevaer, which took place in a Rotterdam shipyard in the presence of a group of well-dressed gentlemen.

Nit d'albaes

1925 • 2 min • Spain

Silent melodrama set in L'Albufera of Valencia.

Unveiling of Bust of Mrs. van Reenen-Völter

1925 • 1 min • Netherlands

Reportage about the unveiling of the bust of Marie Amalie Dorothea Reenen-Völter (5 March 1854 - 10 July 1925), wife of the Mayor and publicist for the town of Bergen, North Holland.

Italian Landscapes and Cities

1925 • 6 min

Compilation of tourist images of Italy (such as Isola Bella, Lake Como, Messina) and presumably Switzerland and Austria.

Amazons at the Wicket

1925 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Women cricketers slog their male counterparts to the boundary in this fixture between Cobham Ladies and Manor Athletic in Richmond.

Calcutta Topical No. 1

1925 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

Дурман Демьяна

1925 • 6 min • Soviet Union

The main character of the satirical cartoon, the worker Demian, spent all his salary on alcohol. The film describes the city through the eyes of a drunkard: he sees swaying street lamps with serpent heads, flies in his eyes, a "dancing" horizon, and entire surrealistic pictures. He is saved from fever by his neighbor, and the next time Demian goes to school instead of the pub.

Watford Street Scenes

1925 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A wintry Watford High Street buzzes with busy shoppers.

A Broca do Café

1925 • 10 min • Brazil

Method used to combat the coffee borer: the use of a purge chamber, the application and circulation of sulphide in gutters, the use of the compound in empty bags, the use of water to seal the chamber lid, in order to prevent the spread of the pest. Aspects of coffee harvesting, transportation and storage, as well as the daily lives of farmers and their work techniques.