All Films - Short Movie Database

Amsterdam Squares and Streets

1920 • 10 min • Netherlands

Most shots are slow pans, with the camera moving from left to right. Some sequences are shot from a high vantage point, which leads to beautiful long-shots of the city. The images of Leidseplein with the news kiosk show the comings and goings of people and trams.

Zinc Oxide Factory, Eijsden

1920 • 20 min • Netherlands

Shots of the Dutch factory and its staff; including images of the departure of the office staff, a bicycle race, a festive procession with fanfare, the railway complex and recordings of Joseph Partouns, an illiterate worker who discovered the process by which zinc white from black and white can be obtained.

The Hague Holiday Children's Party

1920 • 5 min • Netherlands

This film follows roughly a thousand children from The Hague ('s-Gravenhage) on their annual outing to Soesterberg, Netherlands.

The Taking of the Winter Palace

1920 • 8 min • Russia

Screen version of a mass performance held on November 7, 1920 on Palace Square with the participation of Proletkult artists and a crowd of several thousand people. The performance reproduced the events of the October coup d'état. Two platforms were built on Palace Square - "white" and "red".

LCC Housing Bonds

1920 • 4 min • United Kingdom

An animated film sponsored by the London County Council to promote the purchase of housing bonds by Londoners.

Payroll Pirates

1920 • 20 min

A thrilling dramatic story of a woman's invincible courage.

A Short Trip Around the Scenic Savoy

1920 • 5 min • Sweden

A train ride to Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Sundsvall / Mariefred

1920 • 12 min • Sweden

Images from Sundsvall and Mariefred.

The Call of the White Monsters

1920 • 10 min

Adventures of a bunch of skiers: mysteries from the altitudes, strange shapes formed by the snow, beyond the great air, the upper layers of the atmosphere, the great bliss of the white mountain.

Half an Hour

1920 • 50 min • United States of America

In order to help her father, Lord Dartmouth, out of financial difficulties, Lady Lillian agrees to marry the wealthy Richard Garson, whose love she does not reciprocate. After a bitter scene with Richard, Lillian consents to elope with her former suitor, Hugh Paton, leaving her jewels and a letter of explanation behind.

The Beauty Thief

1920 • 5 min

Short film from 1920 about a flower thief, restored by Eye.

Love's Labor Lost

1920 • 3 min • United States of America

The whole effort is an extension of Krazy Kat's incomprehensible but unrequited love for Ignatz Mouse; Ignatz loves a hippo; the Hippo loves an elephant; and so forth.

Lights and Shadows in a City of a Million

1920 • 7 min • United States of America

This short was paid for by Ford Motors in an attempt to improve the lot of the working people through advocating social services.

Captain Grogg on the Great Ocean

1920 • 7 min • Sweden

Captain Grogg and Kalle is sailing on a stormy sea.

Bookworms

1920 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.

Luzon Lingerie

1920 • 10 min • Philippines, United States of America

A sophisticated puff piece for Phillipine embroidering industry, showing men designing the patterns and hordes of women embroidering the cloth.

A Tray Full of Trouble

1920 • 19 min • United States of America

Snooky the chimp as a wild west hero.

Through Sicily

1920 • 5 min • Italy

A ferry boat unloads a train on the coasts of Sicily; the steam engine starts moving, the railway winds through stark landscapes and picturesque coastlines. In the meantime we are shown the gathering of seafood, the coming and going of people at the port and the ruins of ancient Greek settlements: Selinunte, Girgenti. The dominant colours in the film are the blue of the sea, the yellow of the sun and a beautiful red toning to render the majesty of the ruins standing out against the sky. The video is a copy from the film print held by the National Cinema Museum.