All Films

MPs take to the Oval for a game of cricket.

Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, Lydia Knott, Bob Rhodes.

The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers!

Roy Thomas tries to obtain evidence of smuggling to prevent his father from ending up in jail.

Jeff Prouty loses his memory as a result of war injuries and is made to believe he has committed past crimes.

Star of Chaplin's The Kid, Jackie Coogan, visits the Stoll Picture Productions studio building. He befriends a child actor named Harry Beasley, who plays a caddie in a number of golf pictures.

Satire of the bourgeoisie and the West, anti-religious propaganda, agitation for a new lifestye, sees a young female revolutionary in a military helmet and miniskirt, ride a motorcycle through St. Petersburg

A young woman is told by her dying father about a treasure he left for her buried in the woods. Later, after helping a man assaulted by a gangster, she confides in him her hidden inheritance. Unfortunately, a bandid listens to the whole conversation, and a race for the treasure ensues.

Tenth release in the 'Q-Riosities by Q' series. Husband kisses the maid who drops the china 1920's . Wife scolds the maid . Husband drinks then goes to bed . Maid thinks the china moves about. Maid shrinks and is taken into the garden by the china . Tied to the stake with matches . He is dreaming and kisses maid. Wife attacks him.

Winterstürme is a 1924 German silent film directed by Otto Rippert

A tramp persuades another tramp to let him have a coat off a scarecrow by persuading him it's haunted.

Louis Feuillade's final film

An early documentary short on the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, then D.C. to the country.

In the 1920s the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to explore filmmaking as part of its educational program, and in 1924 it released two films about Arms and Armor. In preparation for this new undertaking, Bashford Dean, the head of the Arms and Armor department, sought the advice of Hollywood professionals D. W. Griffith and John Barrymore. "A Visit..." was especially popular and includes memorable scenes: a Gothic armor steps out of its vitrine to answer visitors' questions about the collection, a seesaw with a small child on one end and a medieval mail shirt on the other demonstrates the relatively modest weight of armor, and a fully armored knight on horseback gallops through Central Park, with Belvedere Castle (the park's weather station) rising picturesquely in the background. When actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. viewed the film at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, he pronounced it "bully."

A man falls in love with a woman he thinks is a rich lady when in fact she is her maid.

Considered to be the father of modern karate and the originator of the shotokan style, Sensei Gichin Funakoshi is captured on this remarkable documentary film demonstrating the Tekki 1, 2 & 3 katas and the meykyo kata shot c. 1924. Shot on location at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan at the Keio Karatebu (Karate club of Keio) which was the first University to adopt Karate into it's physical education curriculum. In addition to Sensei Funakoshi, there is lots of other footage covering the training of the University students and summer training camps (Shochu keiko) at the beach. (Ryukyu)

Discontented Husbands is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and written by Evelyn Campbell. It is the first film to be released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars James Kirkwood, Cleo Madison, and Grace Darmond. The film was released on January 15, 1924.

Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him. The shock of seeing him is hard on Vanna, and fearing the loss of her youthful beauty, she visits a physician in Vienna to be rejuvenated. Vanna returns thoroughly changed and even invites the attentions of De Greve when she realizes his interest in Sylvia Grayson, Teddy's sweetheart. Teddy turns against his mother, Sylvia attempts to drown herself, and Vanna lures De Greve to her boudoir, where she discloses his past and gives him a beating with a riding crop. Sylvia and Teddy are reunited and forgive Vanna, who now recognizes the folly of vanity and accepts the proposal of long-time admirer Richard Dowling. This film is lost.

North of Alaska is a 1924 American silent adventure film directed by Frank S. Mattison.

Trail of the North Wind is a silent 1924 adventure film.

A basque melodrama

The irate proprietor of a hotel discharges his hotel clerk after the "Hawkshaw" of the inn tells him the young upstart is flirting with his daughter. But when the young fellow returns and scales a water pipe to elope with the daughter, he is the ready-made hero at hand to save the landlord from being blown up with dynamite by two villains who had robbed the hotel safe. And then he is suitably rewarded with the hand, or is it the paw, of the "daughter."

What remains, unedited, of the first episode of a serial by several hands, subject to a form of supervision-control by Fischinger. It opens with an extremely happy image (a "creative hand" which subsequently returns from time to time) — with shading and movements which appear to have been achieved by the use of the Rotoscope — characters who evoke the commedia dell’arte, in a somewhat joyless tone, but visually dramatic and with echoes of "caligarism". Enno Patalas would like to visit the other surviving episodes, better to understand the spirit of the operation conceived by Louis Seel, designer emeritus and the inspiration of the project. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2000.