All Films

Desperate Trails

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Bart Carson is in love with Lou and even goes to jail to save Walter A. Walker, a man she says is her brother but who is really a husband who has deserted his wife and two children.

The Millionaire

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother. The financier, Glyde, was murdered, so Norman also inherits a load of troubles involving the blackmailers who want to killed him. In his attempt to outwit them, Norman poses as a valet, and has a friend impersonate him.

Hands Off!

1921 • 20 min • United States of America

Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves Ramona's sister from a stampede, and is then awarded a job on the Wadley ranch. The obligatory showdown features Pete and the gang.

Sure Fire

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.

The Killer

1921 • 60 min • United States of America

Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.

Lonely Heart

1921 • 50 min • United States of America

Dramatic adventure of the wildcat oil industry set amongst the derricks.

The Goat

1921 • 23 min • United States of America

A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.

The Boat

1921 • 23 min • United States of America

A boat builder and his family attempt to set sail in his handmade boat, 'The Damfino'.

Wonders of the Deep

1920 • 8 min

A cat observes the wonders of the deep from inside a bottle. Eventually, he finds sunken treasure.

Nude Woman by Waterfall

1920 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A woman poses, in and out of her diaphanous shift.

A Fitting Gift

1920 • 6 min • United States of America

A cartoon from the J.R. Bray Studios with Rummy and friend buying a girdle for his wife.

Die baltische Hafenstadt Reval

1920 • 9 min • Germany

This movie about the Estonian capital Tallinn - also known by the name Reval in Germany, Sweden and Denmark - begins with an impressive harbour tour. Some of the best known sights follow: the towers of the town walls (Kiek in de Kök and "Long Hermann"), the cathedral and the promenade. Then an important economic sector is portrayed: fishing and the processing of fish. In the end, before the film ends abruptly, there is a scene with a training run of the plant fire brigade.

In the Conca d’Oro

1920 • 6 min • Italy

The golden valley is the area where Palermo stands. The documentary shows us the best-known beauties filmed with a fixed camera, slow tracking shots and split screen inspired by the most picturesque picture postcards. The Pretoria fountain, the big theaters, the funicular railway and the cloister of Monreale abbey run on the screen. The beauty of Palermo is also in the life of its people who are shown while meeting and buying at the fish market or at work building Sicilian carts to sell as souvenirs. The film ends with the view of the harbor.

Horizontal-Vertical Orchestra

1920 • 5 min • Germany

Experimental film by Viking Eggeling. Now lost.

Peewit

1920 • 1 min • Germany

Close-ups of the Northern lapwing.

Redskins of yesteryear and today

1920 • 4 min

A short film

When the Cat's Away

1920 • 25 min

Two-reel comedy directed by and starring Frederick J. Ireland

The Unconventional Maida Greenwood

1920 • 30 min • United States of America

Rheims

1920 • 9 min • France, United States of America

A stunning document, this Prizma Color film shows the damage to the architecture of Rheims, France after World War I. Includes views of the cathedral, surrounding city life, German POWs who were forced to repair the church, and briefly, General Pershing and his retinue.

An Old Empire

1920 • 11 min • Netherlands

Amerongen: a previously unknown Dutch village, but since 1919... a famous royal resort

Salon Train of the Governor General

1920 • 6 min • Indonesia, Netherlands

Images of trains and railway workshops around 1920. A special train for the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies can make the journey from Batavia (present-day Jakarta) to Surabaya within one day.

Franeker

1920 • 7 min • Netherlands

Some history and views of the Dutch city.

Weesp

1920 • 8 min • Netherlands

The most important buildings, waterways, monuments, streets, and squares of Weesp, near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

The Holland-Denmark Football Match

1920 • 13 min • Netherlands

A crowd of supporters walk towards the stadium, which opened in 1914 in the Nederlandsch Sportpark on the Amstelveenseweg. The stadium’s general manager, J.J. van den Berg, is in the audience. The national anthems are played, and the players of Denmark and the Netherlands introduce themselves. The field is surrounded by four very crowded stands, and each corner has a monumental tower. Seated on the covered grandstand are well-known figures, including Princess De Ligne, J.P. Kan, and C. Feith. The Netherlands takes an early lead in the match, which the 30,000-plus spectators deliriously applaud. When the Netherlands brings the score to 2-0 in the second half, the mood becomes even more exuberant. For the first time in football history, the Netherlands beats Denmark.