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The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Combine the mountainous and snowy landscapes of the Alps, the photographic sensitivity of 35 mm nitrate film and its tinting in a variety of colors and you get this film of rare beauty. It was screened at the Aix-les-Bains cinema, probably the Palace, and was used to advertise the Mont-Revard resort.

The film begins with the label "The Monument to Christopher Columbus" and has a subtitle that completes it: "Donated to the municipality of Buenos Aires by the Italian community on the occasion of the first centenary of Argentine independence." The film records multiple events, over a little over a year, “from the arrival of the various parts of the monument, and the construction of the base, to the erection of the statue.” The first images are dated May 1920 and The last ones correspond to the day of the inauguration of the monument, June 15, 1921. During that period the film documents the arrival at the port of the monument in the hold of the ship “Olimpo” until its inauguration with the presence of President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

A strangely surreal short animated film by the beloved multi-talented artist Storm P. The film begins with live-action footage of Storm P. standing in front of a canvas where his familiar characters, the Three Little Men, come to life and walk out of a door in the picture. What follows is an animated sequence with a somewhat fragmented narrative. In the first part, a very corpulent gentleman peers hungrily through a keyhole and sees a woman feasting at a well-laid table. The middle section tells the story of a man clashing with a gendarme. In the final scene, we are in the living room of an angry woman waiting for her husband to come home. In true Storm P. style, the laws of physics are broken freely: characters can dematerialise and crawl through keyholes, be kicked all the way across town and tie their limbs up in knots. (Stumfilm. dk)

After a drive through Amsterdam in a carriage, "Hadt-je-me-maar", dressed as a gentleman, takes his place as city-councillor in the Amsterdam Municipal Council, where he is warmly applauded by a group of female admirers led by his landlady, but cooly received by the city hall officials. Alas, this is only a dream, as the tramp realizes when he wakes up in his untidy bed in his lodging-house.

Pip, a dog, and Squeak, a penguin, are the parents of Wilfred, a rabbit.

Spoiled and self-centered society girl, Christine Trevor, neglects her sister and two brothers and merely tolerates her indulgent father. When her father suddenly dies, leaving them essentially penniless, Christine all but deserts the family to marry a social parasite.

Captain Grogg falls into the sea but gets saved in the last second.

This film advocates the consolidation of rural schools into larger education centers and the use of mass transportation for children attending these new schools. The Rugged Road to Learning dramatizes a day in the life of children who, before consolidation, had to travel through the snowy woods to attend a cold country schoolhouse. Later in the film, a larger, consolidated school encompassing five Ontario country districts is featured favourably. Scenes show happy and lively children who are ready to learn. The use of dramatic scenes to underline a film's message was a common technique by the 1920s. Although this film is far from subtle, it was well understood that "the great mass of the movie public want to be amused and entertained not instructed, and if they are to be educated it must be in a subtle, delicate manner"

Silent travelogue in Belgium.

Silent film

Document of the XXVII Congress of the Italian Socialist Party, held in Livorno, at the Goldoni Theater, from 15 to 21 January 1921, and which, on the last day, led to the split and the birth of the Communist Party of Italy...The representatives of the Socialist International, Turati and Terracini, Bordiga and Bombacci, Argentina Altobelli and Francesco Misiano, who escaped to the USSR gave life to the Mezrapom production house, for a decade, the most innovative studio of Soviet cinema, pass before our eyes...In the elections of November 16, 1919, the Socialist Party was the most voted party, the first party, with 32% of the votes and 156 seats, in those of May 15 it obtained 24% of the votes and 123 seats, the Communist Party of Italy 4% and 15 parliamentarians. The wind had turned, the march on Rome was almost upon us. The film arrived at the Cineteca di Bologna, thanks to Cecilia Mangini, who deposited a copy at the Cineteca.

In this small fragment from the cartoon A Wonderful Dream, a rotund man pines for delicious stuff. First, he watches enviously through a keyhole at a clown who’s holding a party. Then a naughty decanter of water on the table conjurs up thoughts of neat whiskey. (stumfilm.dk)

East Side gangster Buck Leslie attempts to stop a fight between chemist Gregory and a tough and is pursued by detective Phil Hoyt to a tenement roof where he takes refuge. On the roof he meets crippled Hilda Shea, who shelters him, and they eventually fall in love, the appeal of her innocence causing him to reform. Buck antagonizes the gang, however, and they try to frame him. Hoyt finds Buck on the roof, and during the ensuing fight the tenement catches on fire. Buck rescues Hilda, and she miraculously regains use of her limbs. The detective abandons his pursuit, leaving the lovers happy.

A previously lost political satire animation about Arturo Alessandri, the recently elect president of Chile at that time.

Documentary on Lotte Pritzel'd dolls

When Miriam Smith's devoutly religious aunt and uncle insist that she marry pious Simeon Althoff, she answers an ad in a matrimonial newspaper and runs away to New York to meet her correspondent. Upon learning that Miles Sprague, the man in the ad, is coming to claim her, Miriam gets cold feet and begs her experienced friend Kittie Swasher, the hotel telephone operator, for help. When Miles arrives, Kittie pretends that she is Miriam and the three go to a cabaret. Meanwhile, the detectives employed by Miriam's aunt and uncle to bring her home appear and arrest Kittie, thinking that she's Miriam. Simeon arrives soon after and identifies the real Miriam, who is then taken home and locked in her room. Kittie and Miles follow and rescue Miriam, who realizes that she has fallen in love with the man from her ad.

A traveling theatrical troupe is stranded in a small town, and the leading ingenue, Polly, returns to her New York City hometown broke. She and her friend Bunny, desperate for a job, convince the Hawkers, a "nouveau riche" family from Kansas, that they are French and an experienced maid-and-butler team. Young Zeke Hawker is smitten with Polly, but Polly is attracted to their neighbor, a famous actor named MacGillicuddy. One night at a swanky party given by Mrs. Hawker, her jewels wind up stolen, and Polly is suspected of it. Complications ensue until Polly discovers who the real thieves are.

The film, a silent melodrama, was designed to persuade viewers to visit a physician for regular checkups and at the first sign of the disease.

Animated cartoon: Husband and wife getting ready to go out.

The Life Story of John Lee, or the Man They Could Not Hang is a 1921 Australian silent film (which is now considered lost) based on the true life story of John Babbacombe Lee. It is a remake of a 1912 film with some extra scenes of Lee's childhood.

In Baja Mexico, poor shepherdess Isola Garcia agrees to marry aging rancher Don Pio Mendoza because he is dying and needs an heir for his fortune. She leaves the hacienda when she hears that bandits have raided her flock, and when a young American schooner captain, Paul Corbin, comes to her rescue, she falls in love.

Penny arrives in the West by aeroplane. She is considered a suspicious character and thrown into jail. Kurt Walters, a ranch foreman and deputy sheriff, discovers that she is the same girl that his friend, Jo Gary, met in Chicago. Gary fell in love with her, but she confessed she was a thief. Since Penny claims she wants to reform, Walters releases her and sends her to live with Mrs. Kingdon. In spite of her teasing and taunts (or perhaps because of them), Walters finds himself falling in love with Penny.

A chemist uses ink poured into water; the water is filmed upside down, and an artist uses the swirling shapes as the basis of fanciful drawings.