All Films

The Curious Adventure of Doctor Works

1921 • 44 min • France

A professor lecturing his class tells the strange story of a doctor's dead wife who sends her spirit to haunt and torment him and wreck his second marriage.

Béhula

1921 • 55 min • France, India

"Béhula" takes as its plot the rivalry between the goddesses Chandi, wife of Shiva, and Manasa, his daughter. The merchant Chand Sadagar is a faithful devotee of Chandi, and Manasa attempts to attract him. Rejected by Chand Sadagar, Manasa condemns his son, Lakhindar, to perish on the night of his marriage to the beautiful Béhula. The next morning, Béhula discovers her husband’s inanimate body after he suffers a snakebite. She sets out on a long voyage along the Ganges until she succeeds in bringing him back to life.

Solar eclipse April 8, 1921

1921 • 7 min • Netherlands

Various onlookers, including pets, experience the eclipse. We also see a view through a telescope of the eclipse itself.

The Cat and the Canary

1921 • 3 min

A canary gets more than she bargained for when she falls in love with another bird.

When Winter Comes

1921 • 12 min

The family dog narrates the everyday joys of winter.

Miss Rovel

1921 • 28 min • France

Misanthrope Raymond Ferray's life of peace and quiet is disrupted by the arrival of his new neighbors the Rovels. Lady Rovel designs on marrying her daughter Meg to the much older Marquis de Boisgenêt. Her mother agrees not to force her, however, if she can find a suitable alternative. Raymond, who despite himself has taken a great interest in Miss Rovel, helps her to find one.

200 Packs of Fox Hounds Begin Season's Sport

1921 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

Rhythm 21

1921 • 3 min • Germany

Abstract animated short film. Grey and white squares change size and shape on a black background.

Ostende, reine des plages

1921 • 11 min

Images of Ostend.

A Bear, a Boy and a Dog

1921 • 26 min • United States of America

A short drama, made from a story written by Nell Shipman.

Captain Grogg and Other Strange Creatures

1921 • 7 min • Sweden

Grogg and Kalle interacts with several animals including a kangaraoo and an ostrich among others.

Dodge Your Debts

1921 • 10 min • United States of America

A top-hatted bill collector is given the unenviable assignment of collecting the debts of a bad-tempered innkeeper.

That Ice Ticket

1921 • 10 min • United States of America

An important example of amateur filmmaking during this era, That Ice Ticket was made by Angela Murray Gibson who ran Gibson Studios in the small community of Casselton, North Dakota. Gibson cast community members in her productions, taking on multiple roles herself, writing, directing and acting in the films, operating the camera during filming, then processing the footage and editing the finished picture together. Here she plays a young woman managing multiple male suitors with the "help" of her mischievous kid brother.

A Monkey Hero

1921 • 25 min • United States of America

Here's a surefire number if ever there was one. Filled with innumerable original gags and laugh-getting animal stuff, it forms an offering that's good enough to bill just as heavily as the feature. You can't go wrong with a Joe Martin comedy and this is one of his best!

The Roast Hare

1921 • 23 min • Denmark

The Nokkesens have got themselves into a huge predicament. They’ve forgotten that the Spidsmejers are coming to dinner and expect roast hare. The Nokkesens have no hare to cook, and the game butcher is closed, so the man of the house goes out to find a solution. After a bit of an odyssey, which includes coming across a bunch of mermaids, a fat little dog, and a pretty housekeeper with mischievous eyes, the Spidsmejers luckily get their promised roast hare. (stumfilm.dk)

Gegen Hohe Belohnung Abzugeben

1921 • 50 min • Germany

A marriageable and wealthy young woman receives a proposal for her hand from a down-and-out nobleman, but she has other suitors.

Moongold

1921 • 30 min • United States of America

The tragedy of Pierrot and Pierrette worked out against a velvety midnight setting.

Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet

1921 • 11 min • United States of America

After eating a rarebit, a man falls asleep and dreams his wife adopts a mysterious animal with an insatiable appetite. The pet eats its milk, the house cat, the house's furnishings, rat poison, and passing vehicles, including airplanes and a blimp, while growing larger and larger. This cartoon is part of a Dream trilogy animated by Winsor McCay in 1921. (CBGP)

The Match-Breaker

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Jane Morgan, to avoid marrying family lawyer Richard Van Loytor, takes her maid, Murray, and leaves home to make her own career. Finding it difficult to get work, she decides she is most accomplished as a "match-breaker" and offers her services in that capacity.

Just in Time

1921 • 18 min • United States of America

In this one, Snooky is the chauffeur for a family -- the family's children are played by the unknown child actors of A TRAY FULL OF TROUBLE. He is fired for smoking on the job and heads off, where he succors some scampish children who have fallen afoul of a gypsy.

Heedless Moths

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

A beautiful artists' model attempts to save a sculptor's marriage by putting herself in the place of the sculptor's wife, who is entangled in the nefarious clutches of another man.

The Tomboy

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Minnie, the village tomboy, meets a handsome Stranger after playing ball one afternoon. She invites him to see a bridge model her father has designed; but finding her intoxicated father in the act of destroying the model, she swears vengeance on the local bootleggers and joins a newspaper as sportswriter so as to expose their activities. Pike, the station agent, leader of the bootleggers, spreads a scandal about Minnie when she rejects him, but through the help of the Stranger everything is cleared up.

Wealth

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Artist Mary McLeod, while returning to New York, discovers she has lost her train ticket; young Phillip Dominick, a millionaire playboy, offers her his drawing room, posing as her brother, and their friendship in time develops into love. They are married, and Phillip takes his bride to his wealthy mother, on whom he is financially dependent. Mrs. Dominick, however, has plans to separate the couple and marry Phillip to a society girl, and though Mary begs him to take her away, she agrees to remain until the birth of her baby. The grandmother assumes full charge of the child, but despite careful nursing the child dies, and a subsequent misunderstanding causes Mary to leave. Phillip finds her and promises to start a new life in their own home on his own resources.

Why Trust Your Husband?

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Elmer Day and his wife, Eunice, are visiting Gilbert and Maud Stone, and the two husbands, wishing to attend a masquerade, plead business engagements to escape from their wives. But the wives, discovering the invitation, also attend, and matters are complicated by changes and substitutions of costumes and the appearance of Mrs. Day's aunt and uncle. After a police raid there are general explanations and reconciliations at the police court.