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Glimpses in Colour from the Whole World - Calais & Constantinople

1925 • 10 min • Netherlands

Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam).

Manizales City

1925 • 52 min • Colombia

Documentary filmmed on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the city in March 1925, with the record of the festivities and celebrations of the commemorative carnival. However, on July 3, 1925, the city suffered a terrible fire, which destroyed much of its historic center. The producers filmed the ruins of the city and added this footage to the original version, offering a rather bleak contrasting picture.

Napoleon Gas

1925 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A squadron of American warplanes, armed with gas developed by Corsican chemist Gannimer (dubbed "Napoleon Gas") flies to Leningrad. American workers inform soviet comrades about the impending catastrophe. But the air attack on the city has already begun, and the assault troops of the enemy capture one suburb of the city after the other. The Red Army is organizing the defense and reflects the attack of the enemy with gas-armed drones

Tanzerische Pantominen

1925 • 4 min

Three dance performances by dancer Valeska Gert.

In the Land of Giants and Pygmies

1925 • 8 min

IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and implies that the "dark continent" could benefit from the "civilizing" influences of home.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 20

1925 • 16 min

Schools, businesses and other locations in Kansas City, MO; Boley, OK; Tulsa, OK; Taft, OK; Muskogee, OK.

China in Flames

1925 • 32 min • Soviet Union

Soviet propaganda cartoon about the ongoing revolution in China.

Ubasuteyama

1925 • 18 min • Japan

Based on a Japanese legend, this animated short tells the story of a farmer who attempts to hide his mother from the wrath of a Lord who forces all people 60 and older from his village.

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movie: Yale Collection Film 19

1925 • 17 min

National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, MO; streets in Chicago, IL; backwaters in Madison, IA.

The Big Stunt

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

The Big Stunt is one of the Wolfheart hero dog Western series.

Tricks

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

Collegian Angelica "Trix" Varden, willful daughter of William Varden, after a midnight spread of lobster and ice cream, has a dream about an adventure on her father's ranch involving her horse Beverly, one Jack Norton, and Buck Barlow's gang of rustlers. She is expelled from school and returns home to find a handsome new foreman, who is none other than Jack Norton. Trix's curiosity is aroused by her dream, and she finds evidence of rustlers. Barlow shows up, and she locks herself in a cabin and sends Jack's horse, Star, for help. Jack finally defeats Barlow in a fight, and the two horses "realize" that they now have both a master and a mistress.

Wiener Bilderbogen Nr. 1

1925 • 6 min • Austria

Beyond the Border

1925 • 58 min

When Bob Smith brings in the outlaw Bob Moore he learns his real name is also Bob Smith. With his sister whom he has not seen since childhood arriving, Moore gets Smith to pose as him. The masquerade works fine for a while but then Moore's gang members plan to kill him and Smith must save the brother of the woman he now loves.

Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda

1925 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station is developed / A concert is broadcast. Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, there still exists Aleksandr Bushkin’s time-lapse animation and the sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, “a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant’s log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves”—a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia’s distant peasantry.

Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story

1925 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: First anniversary of Lenin's death / Smycka of the city and the village: group of peasants visit Moscow / Lenin's effect on peasants and oppressed nations

Silent Sanderson

1925 • 50 min • United States of America

When Silent Sanderson's brother kills himself over the rejection of a woman, Silent blames Judith Benson and leaves the family homestead to begin a new life in Alaska. He is later reunited with Judith Benson, only to discover that his brother didn't commit suicide at all but was murdered by the woman's jealous husband.

Personal Hygiene For Young Women

1925 • 14 min

Touches on hygiene. Bathe regularly, sleep with the windows open, and tells about the reproductive system.

Hooked

1925 • 9 min • United States of America

Lloyd Hamilton goes fishing.

The Fascinating Widow

1925 • 60 min

The Fascinating Widow is a 1925 adaptation of the musical comedy written by Otto Hauerbach as a vehicle for the female impersonator Julian Eltinge.

Aymara Heart

1925 • 60 min • Bolivia

An Aymara woman strugges against accusations that she is unfaithful to her husband.

Soul Mates

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

A man decides to live his life to the fullest in memory of his dead wife.

Alice in the Jungle

1925 • 7 min • United States of America

Alice and Julius the cat are riding an elephant through the jungle. Julius falls and is nearly eaten by crocodiles but manages to escape nevertheless. Meanwhile, two elephant children are having fun at a watering hole and a monkey barber has his barber pole eaten by a hippo, who mistakes it for a candy cane. Julius tries to remedy the latter injustice by starching up a tiger's striped tail and knocking it off, using it as a replacement pole. Alice hunts a lion who proves to be too much for her to handle, but Julius bravely comes to the rescue.

The Pot

1925 • 17 min • Japan

A dutiful young fisherboy sets out to catch his grandfather's favorite fish, which leads him into an extraordinary encounter with a magic pot.

The Awful Truth

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings.