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The Verdict

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers.

Hotsy-Totsy

1925 • 20 min • United States of America

Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.

She Wolves

1925 • 60 min • United States of America

In France, a romantic young woman named Germaine is shocked and disheartened to discover that, for financial reasons, her parents have arranged a marriage for her with Lucien D'Artois, a wealthy man of rough manners who loves his horses and dogs more than evening clothes. Germaine makes her distaste known to her new husband, and Lucien goes to Paris to make himself over. Before Lucien can return to Germaine, however, she writes him a letter saying they can never be happy together. Lucien becomes despondent and dissipates his entire fortune in reckless living. André Delandal ingratiates himself with Germaine and leads her to falsely believe that Lucien has been unfaithful. Germaine goes to Paris to ask Lucien for her freedom, then discovers that he has become a polished gentleman. She belatedly declares her love for Lucien.

Aura o las violetas

1924 • 18 min • Colombia

Adaptation of the novel by José María Vargas Vila, a romantic drama that tells about the middle-class Bogota early last century.

Funerals of Commander Nami Jafet

1924 • 19 min • Brazil

Crowd crowded in front of the commander's mansion; the coffin being loaded; the procession with the funeral carriage and carriages and cars with wreaths on Avenida Dom Pedro I, on Rua Silva Bueno next to the family factory and on Rua Florêncio da Abreu. At the cemetery people speak in honor; the tomb, flowers and the descent of the coffin. The gathering of people at the entrance of the Orthodox Church at the seventh day mass. Panoramic of the city.

As Curas do Professor Mozart

1924 • 24 min • Brazil

Glimpses in Colour from the Whole World - Pontarlier, Niort, Quercy, Salins-les-Bains

1924 • 10 min

Documentary shots in central and southern France. Among other things, the Pontarlier Mountains, Niort, Quercy and Salins-les-Bains.

The Beginning of the World War

1924 • 10 min

Director: unknown | Production Country: The Netherlands/United States | Year: 1924 | Production Company: Universal | FLM6081 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam)

Hair Fashions

1924 • 1 min

Hair accessories are modelled - elaborate lace trimmed tiara, floral head dress etc. (British Pathé)

Drama in Bilbao

1924 • 40 min

The wealthy Ricardo, alerted by his girlfriend, a waitress, believing that his mother is dying, goes to a spa. On the way, the masked bandit "Malaentraña" stops the car and leaves him badly injured; dies in the hospital before the impotence of his girlfriend.

Gestation of the Ovum

1924 • 9 min • Germany

A film by Friedrich Kopsch.

To Breda

1924 • 7 min • Netherlands

The comic duo Louisette and Armand in Breda, Netherlands. Starting at the station, Armand chases Louisette through the city up until the entrance to the Grand Theater, in front of many spectators.

Hnattflugið

1924 • 5 min

Newsreel depicting the stay of Lowell Smith and Erik Nelson in Reykjavik during their 1924 flight around the world.

The Flight from the Netherlands to the Indies

1924 • 21 min • Netherlands

Reportage about the first flight to the Dutch Indies. Shots of the departure of the Fokker VII H-NACC in the Netherlands in the presence of KLM-director Plesman and of the arrival in the Dutch Indies. We also see the trial flight above Rotterdam.

Culemborg Journal

1924 • 9 min • Netherlands

Reportage about demonstrations following a robbery in Culemborg, Netherlands. On 24 December in 1923, Thomas van Wiggen and his sister Gerrigje were murdered in Culemborg. Several suspects were arrested in the investigation, but ultimately no one was convicted of the double robbery-homicide. We see a demonstration held by the local inhabitants, directed against Police Commissioner Blok, who was accused of poorly handling the police investigation. Amid these shots, we see images of two football matches: Vriendenschaar - Sparta (1-0) and Culemborg II - Haaften I. The latter match ended in a draw.

Running: A Sport That Creates Both Bodily and Mental Health

1924 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Juvenile races at a country sports gathering are followed by scenes at the Olympic Games of 1924.

Football Again

1924 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Footage of Spurs players training before the new football season, followed by shots of White Hart Lane being prepared.

Big Game in the Sub-Arctic of Canada

1924 • 35 min • Canada

Documentary footage of the Bullock-Hornby expedition across the Canadian Sub-Arctic revealing the pairs struggle for survival against the harsh elements in this unforgiving landscape.

Women's Olympiad

1924 • 3 min • United Kingdom

World records tumble at the International and British Games for female athletes, held on 4 August 1924 at Stamford Bridge. One of the stars of the athletics track was London clerk Miss Mary Lines who, after breaking the 120m hurdles world record in her heat, then went on to break another with her win in the 250 metres in the afternoon.

Peter and Ping go Fishing

1924 • 1 min • Denmark

In this short film, Storm P.’s popular comic strip characters Peter and Ping advertise CLOC Liqueur. The friends are out fishing when Peter reels in a large bottle of CLOC from the sea. Peter and Ping originally appeared as a comic strip in the daily newspaper ‘B.T.’ for 27 years. The first strip was published on 8 August 1922 under the title ‘The Adventures of Peter Vimmelskaft’. Later that year, the series introduced the penguin Ping and was renamed Peter and Ping. (Stumfilm. DK)

Living Paintings: Romeo & Juliet

1924 • 1 min

This wordless rendition of Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene captures feted Shakespearean John Gielgud in both his West End debut and his first appearance on film. He made his first silent feature later this year: Walter Summers’s Who Is the Man? Gielgud was a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art when his agent sent him to audition for the Regent Theatre, saying: “Here is an opportunity to become a London Star in a night.” Stardom would have to wait, with critic Ivor Brown castigating the young lover as a “niminy-piminy” who was “scant of virility”, with “the most meaningless legs imaginable”.

The Civil Servant

1924 • 30 min • Egypt

When a chief clerk falls in love with a dancer, he embezzles an amount of money that he spends on her and ends up in prison, and things turn upside down in his life.

Olympic Lassies

1924 • 1 min • United Kingdom

On your marks, get set, go! On a cold, wintry day in Battersea Park, women athletes undergo a gruelling training session in preparation for international competition. The well-composed action shots see them energetically sprinting, javelin throwing and performing some spectacular long jumps.

Looney Lens: Pas de deux

1924 • 4 min • United States of America

Two men interacting before a distorted spherical mirror.