All Films

Jesus the Christ

1923 • 55 min

Truly an obscure piece of forgotten silent cinema, this film boasts fine production values; Using its set pieces, location shots, costumes and crowd scenes to good effect to tell the familiar story of Jesus, the Christ.

Le Japon autrefois et aujourd'hui

1923 • 1 min

A short film

Pictures from Lysekil

1923 • 8 min • Sweden

Cityscapes from Lysekil, Sweden. The sailing club's annually recurring large race with start and finish in Släggö. Football match at Pinnevik. Sunday morning at "Trampen" and the swimming facility.

Line Weltevreden

1923 • 7 min • Indonesia, Netherlands

A brief reportage about the train trip from Weltevreden to Meester Cornelis and from Meester Cornelis to Manggarai station (modern Indonesia), around 1920.

Government House Garden Party

1923 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Marriage of Miss Rossalyn Weinbaum to Mr A. Goide

1923 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Guests step out in smart hats and sumptuous furs for a Jewish wedding at London’s Central Synagogue.

Madagascar-Exode

1923 • 14 min

From south to north, in the 1920s, the roads of Madagascar were periodically used by entire tribes of natives who traveled almost 1,500 km on foot to carry out various agricultural tasks for two years: land reclamation, sugarcane harvesting, manioc cultivation and processing, and pod processing.

Dental Health

1923 • 8 min

An educational film to raise awareness for the prevention of cavities.

Marknadsbilder från Enköping

1923 • 11 min • Sweden

Images of Enköping

Die »kluge Liese«

1923 • 4 min • Germany

Short silent animated film

The Town Rat and the Country Rat

1923 • 3 min • France

A town rat's feast is disturbed by an unwelcome visitor. Adaptation of the Fable by Jean de La Fontaine.

First Armenian Church

1923 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An elaborate ceremony marks the opening of the first Armenian church in England.

Balkan War Compilation

1923 • 7 min

Footages of the Balkan Wars from 1912-1913, including footage of Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) with Halide Hanım (Halide Edib Adıvar), Adnan Bey (Adnan Adıvar) and Kâzım Kara Bekir Pasha (Kazım Karabekir) in Ismidt (İzmit/Gebze) on 17 January 1923.

At the Circus

1923 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Various circus acts at Crystal Palace - performing horses, stunt riders and clowns.

The Knockout

1923 • 10 min • United States of America

Intelligent monkeys, dogs, and ducks enact a spoof of boxing dramas. (MoMA)

Recuerdos del Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires

1923 • 11 min • Argentina

Documentary short made by Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, who was a senior student at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires when he made this film about that same institution.

Bad Boy

1923 • 27 min • France

Édouard Georg À Cély

1923 • 15 min

"Édouard Georg À Cély" is a short fiction imagined by André Sauvage while he visits the painter and engraver Edouard Goerg. Monsieur Tesson has the habits of a lonely man: he is maniacal and misogynistic. To teach him a lesson, a couple of friends, the Cymboles, come to his house with a young woman, "Mademoiselle Anaïs", without telling him that she is married. Disturbed in his habits by visitors, Mr. Tesson welcomes them reluctantly. But gradually, a feeling of love for Anaïs leads her to give up her manic behavior. The three friends, judging that the joke has gone on long enough, end up letting go of him, pushing him away alone with his cat.

The Immortal Voice

1923 • 14 min

A rare silent film about how phonograph records are made.

The Near Lady

1923 • 50 min

Basil Van Bibber, son of a prominent family, and Nora Schultz, daughter of a butcher who invented a sausage machine that made the Van Bibbers rich, pretend to be in love to please their parents; but when Nora tries to protect the young Van Bibber from a charge of reckless driving, they find they really are in love.

Tutankhamen

1923 • 32 min

The farce by French comedian Dandy, filmed in Vienna, refers to the media hype surrounding the Egyptian pharaonic tombs in the early 1920s. However, the elaborate sets and costumes also clearly satirize scenes from Lubitsch's monumental film "Das Weib des Pharao", which ran for weeks in Viennese cinemas in 1922. With the wave of Egyptomania that exploded after December 1922, when the news broke that the unviolated tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen had been discovered, Dandy did not miss the opportunity for parody. The film, directed by Dandy himself, also featured Karl Leiter. The latter, known as "Länglich," was one of the most active Austrian comics in the silent period, and Dandy found in him the ideal support for his only Austrian two-reeler.

Duke and Bride off for Honeymoon

1923 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The Duke of York and his bride board a train in South London. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

From Peasant Girl to Star

1923 • 28 min • Netherlands

Trijn, a spirited girl from Volendam, while dancing to the music of the village band, is seen by two impresarios who offer her a contract to appear in a theatre. Her fiancé, Krelis, tries to prevent her from leaving, but Trijn takes to her heels. She travels by train, hydroplane, ship and automobile, followed all the time by the dismayed Krelis, until she arrives at the theatre where she is to perform. There, live on stage and together with her fiancé, she convinces the incredulous Krelis that she really is a "star". The film was shot in the period 1923-1925.

Caprera! To the Sacred Island!

1923 • 12 min

The documentary shows the evocative seascape and land of the island of Caprera pausing to illustrate the house of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the relics, the testament and other objects that belonged to the hero of the Risorgimento. Garibaldi's last wife, Francesca Armosino, accompanies some guests to visit the park surrounding the villa before paying homage to her husband's gravesite.