All Films

London's Outer Ring

1924 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at Brixton, the Crystal Palace, Woolwich free ferry, Saint Augustine's Tower in hackney, Richmond, Strand-on-the-Green, White City with its old Olympic stadium, and the Old Kent Road.

The 1924 Chamonix Olympic Games

1924 • 37 min • France

A documentary covering the Olympic Games at Chamonix in 1924.

The Tragedy of Silence

1924 • 60 min • Colombia

Due to an unfortunate mistake with laboratory samples, a young husband is diagnosed as suffering from the terrible disease of leprosy. In his distress he decides to leave home.

Just a Real Good Car

1924 • 3 min • United States of America

Charley/Jimmy is a car salesman who takes an unruly family of prospective buyers for a picnic in the woods.

Interplanetary Revolution

1924 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The spread of the Soviet revolution drives the blood sucking international capitalists to desperation, so they take their wealth and fly off into space, but even then cannot escape the wrath of the wronged workers.

The Witch's Fiddle

1924 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A wandering musician comes into the possession of a bewitched instrument.

The Last Word in Chickens

1924 • 10 min

This 10-minute short documentary exploring the shifting state of the American poultry industry was preserved in 2015 from an original nitrate print. More information is available on the film's page in the National Film Preservation Foundation's website, where this version can be found featuring original music by Michael D. Mortilla.

La bambola vivente

1924 • 46 min • Italy

Early Italian Science-Fiction film.

The Hansom Cabman

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?

Near Dublin

1924 • 23 min

Sir Patrick attempts to marry a young lady against her will. Nice guy Stan Laurel tries to help out but gets thrown in jail for his trouble.

The Land of the Bulls

1924 • 53 min • Spain

Musidora wants the hero of her next film to be a young toreador who is reluctant to play for the camera.

The Western Wallop

1924 • 50 min • United States of America

Parolee Bart Tullison becomes foreman of Anita Stillwell's ranch near the Nevada border. While Anita considers Bart a coward because he will not pursue cattle rustlers across the border, Jefferson Bradshaw learns of Bart's past and resolves to use it to end the growing affection between Anita and Bart.

The Heart of Cleveland

1924 • 29 min • United States of America

The Heart of Cleveland is a 29 minute silent film produced for The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company in 1924. The film tells the story of a family living 50 minutes from Cleveland that still does not have electricity. A pilot has to make a landing on their farm and tells them about the wonders of radio and electricity. He then takes their two young children on a plane to Cleveland where they get to see first-hand the fantastic progress and prosperity that electricity brings.

Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean

1924 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Connecting city and country, south and north, summer and winter, peasant women and worker women / Emancipation of women in the USSR

Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality

1924 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Up the Eiffel Tower in Paris / Moscow / Auto race Petrograd – Moscow / Aspects of everyday Soviet life / Peasant from Jaroslavl' visiting Moscow / Ceremonial introduction of a newborn into a workers' collective

Marry in Haste

1924 • 50 min • United States of America

A wealthy Wyoming man disowns his son, Wayne Sturgis (William Fairbanks), for marrying art student Joan Prescott (Dorothy Revier). After several years on a small farm, Joan begins to suffer from disillusionment, unhappiness, and ill health. The marriage is nearly ruined by the attentions that neighbor Monte Brett (Gladden James) pays Joan.

Bonzo

1924 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Bonzo is frustrated in his attempt to eat the maid's sausages so he contents himself with drinking the cat's milk.

Commencement Day

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in Amish communities and such. We get kid-centric amusement as various skills of music are performed by youngsters who were probably coaxed by parents to take up the instruments used.

Shanghaied Lovers

1924 • 15 min • United States of America

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

Wonderful London: Flowers of London

1924 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A look at the Londoner's love of flowers, from domestic gardens and florist's shops to the great market at Covent Garden and the Piccadilly Circus flower girls.

Looney Lens: Split Skyscrapers

1924 • 1 min • United States of America

The warping lens used to photograph 10th Avenue seems to puzzle the filmmakers.

Atahualpa's Treasure

1924 • 60 min • Ecuador

It recounts the mystery surrounding the treasure of the last Inca emperor.

Second Youth

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

1924 silent comedy starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Battling Bunyan

1924 • 53 min • United States of America

A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.