All Films

Jeffries, Jr.

1924 • 9 min • United States of America

A man contacts a boxer in order to get in shape.

April Fool

1924 • 12 min • United States of America

Jimmy Jump is a cracked reporter at a behind-the-times daily newspaper. He also happens to be in love with the managing editor's daughter. It's Monday, April 1st and the paper's editorial staff has a great deal of trouble telling the difference between April Fool's jokes and real events.

Big Business

1924 • 25 min • United States of America

In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Mohawk! Scenes involving close calls with sharp scissors might make some viewers wince, while the manicurist uses a device that looks like a wire-cutter.

Young Oldfield

1924 • 10 min • United States of America

Jimmy always fantasied about racing. But now he has to pay the mortgage before noon or else he won't own his shop any longer.

The Buccaneers

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.

Trigger Fingers

1924 • 50 min • United States of America

Sergeant Bob Steele (Bob Custer), of the Texas Rangers, is assigned to put an end to the lawlessness of a gang of outlaws led by a mysterious man known as 'The Black Hawk.' Hoping to infiltrate the gang, he poses as an outlaw named "Lightning" Brady.

Jubilo, Jr.

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.

Tiger Love

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

The Wildcat, a Robin Hood of the Spanish hills and son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Marcheta, who is pledged to marry Don Ramón to save the family fortune. On her wedding day The Wildcat abducts her and reveals his aristocratic identity.

Grit

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart and Orchid McGonigle, attempt to go straight, despite pressure to continue their lives of lawlessness.

Flickering Youth

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.

Fast Company

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters a rich boy waiting at a station for his mom and as they get to talking they trade places since Mickey has never seen the inside of a hotel and the rich kid just wants to play. When the rich kid returns to the gang with the goat-pulling wagon, however, they resolve to go where Mickey is which is where the fun really begins...

The Hellion

1924 • 50 min • United States of America

Ranch hand Tex Gardy comes to the aid of the father of the girl he loves, whose ranch is being threatened by a gang of criminals led by a woman known as The Hellion.

Sherlock Jr.

1924 • 45 min • United States of America

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Loving Lies

1924 • 59 min • United States of America

A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to complications when he rescues a young girl and her baby from the sea.

Broken Barriers

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.

It Happened Out West

1923 • 50 min • United States of America

The foreman of a cattle-ranch located on the Texas-Mexico border is the leader of a gang of alien-smugglers bringing Chinese immigrants illegally into the United States. An under-cover Texas Ranger is sent to investigate.

Fools and Riches

1923 • 50 min

During his lifetime John Dorgan is unsuccessful in his attempts to cure his son, Jimmy, of his spendthrift ways, but his will leaves only a part of his fortune to Jimmy, while explaining where to dig for the rest.

The Power of a Lie

1923 • 50 min

At a wild surprise party John Hammond signs a note for his struggling friend, architect Richard Burton, but later denies his presence at the affair in order to preserve his reputation.

The Clean Up

1923 • 50 min

Monte Bixby's grandfather leaves a will providing each native-born citizen of his small town with $50,000 while giving Monte one dollar. Monte's society fiancée, Mary Reynolds, abandons him, but grandfather Bixby's pretty young secretary, Phyllis Andrews, resolves to help him. Meanwhile, life in the town is chaotic as the legatees begin to spend their money.

Our Airman Prince Engaged: Topical Budget 595-1

1923 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Newsreel coverage of the Duke of York's engagement to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Eusko-ikusgaiak

1923 • 10 min

Short films on the Basque Country's dances, sports and traditions, shot between 1923 and 1928 in Donosti, Berriz, Elorrio and Zumarraga.

Introduction à la vie rurale de l'avenir

1923 • 10 min • Belgium

The daily schedule is rational and step by step the farmer's tasks are carried out both in the household (ironing, making beds, raising children, making food) and in the yard (feeding animals, analyzing milk samples, making cheese, churning milk, work in the vegetable garden, collecting eggs). In the evening, she puts the children to bed and has some time left for some relaxing activities such as knitting or reading.

Wedding Cake for Duke of York's Bride: Topical Budget 608-2

1923 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Newsreel coverage of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's wedding cake. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Day by Day in Every Way

1923 • 9 min • United States of America

In a spoof of the 1920s mantra "every day in every way, I'm getting better and better", a cat goes around a farm with a self-help book preaching the mantra to animals with troubles -- a hen that won't lay eggs, a mouse with a plant that won't grow, a rabbit being chased by dogs, three lame mice, a wheelchair-bound monkey -- and cures them. But crotchety old Farmer Al Falfa, who's sick with the flu, rejects the cure -- at first.