All Films

The Dead Towns on the Zuiderzee

1920 • 12 min • Netherlands

Recordings of Duth towns Monnikendam, Enkhuizen and Edam. The film shows noteworthy buildings, squares, streets, factories and canals. The intertitles provide historical background information. Also beautiful pictures of a setting sun. Some shots were taken from the church tower and from a moving boat. The departure of the Enkhuizen-Stavoren boat is also depicted.

Cowboy Jazz

1920 • 7 min

This short film presents the champion cowboys of the world in a series of remarkable stunts, including riding, roping, steer throwing, etc.

Stepping Along with Santa Claus

1920 • 15 min

Santa Claus parade in Toronto.

The Dutch Basalt Company 'Zaandam' in Germany and Holland

1920 • 56 min • Netherlands

Corporate film about the extraction, processing, and use of basalt by the Nederlandsche Basalt Maatschappij.

Along Gouwe and Oude Rijn

1920 • 5 min • Netherlands

A boat trip along the Gouwe & Old Rhine into Boskoop village, Netherlands.

The Ambachtslordship Rijswijk

1920 • 7 min • Netherlands

The most important buildings, streets, monuments, and waterways of Rijswijk, Netherlands. We see churches, restaurants, mills, the Haagweg, the Cromvliet country estate, and the Vliet river. Everyday life is filmed as well: trams, bicyclists, police on horseback, mothers with children, rowboats on the Vliet, and children playing by the Gedenknaald pillar that commemorates the Treaty of Rijswijk

St. Andrew's Wells

1920 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Big fan of episcopal residences? Take a rose-tinted look at the historic city of Wells.

Enschede

1920 • 9 min • Netherlands

Fishermen's Places on the Zuiderzee

1920 • 9 min • Netherlands

Shots of life in Volendam and the bay of Zuiderzee.

The Making of an American

1920 • 14 min • United States of America

Docudrama encouraging immigrants to master English and become successful, assimilated Americans.

Storm P Draws the Three Little Men

1920 • 1 min

Storm P. is seen putting the finishing touches on a painting of his iconic ‘Three Little Men’ characters. The men come alive and exit through a door on the left side of the painting. (Stumfilm.dk)

Lunatics in Politics

1920 • 24 min • United States of America

Two female candidates for Chief of Police live across the hall from each other, and their political rivalry follows them home, leading to plenty of hi-jinks.

Tropical Nights

1920 • 12 min • United States of America

Tropical Nights is a true “scenic.” Putting aside conventional narrative, the film tells its story by following the lights and shadows on a Caribbean island over the course of a diurnal cycle. As day evolves into night and back to dawn, the camera moves from close-up to striking vistas, with color toning accentuating the mood.

For You, Poland

1920 • 46 min • Poland

The film’s plot is set during the war between Poland and the Soviet Russia (1919 – 1921). Wartime brutally encroaches on the life of a couple in love – Franek and Hanka. The Bolshevik troops cause damage to Polish villages and manor houses, and in one of the manor houses the invaders have a carousel. Luckily, the Polish cavalry comes to the relief just in time. Unable to wait passively, Hanka becomes a sister of mercy in one of the field hospitals near Vilnius, while Franek gains wide recognition after capturing a Russian spy.

Bullet Proof

1920 • 50 min • United States of America

Pierre Winton promises to avenge his father's killing at the hands of McGuirk, the bandit. While hunting for McGuirk, Pierre comes upon Mary Brown who has been badly injured in a rock slide. They fall in love, but while attempting to rescue Mary, Pierre is trapped and rendered unconscious in another rock slide. Saved by Jim Boone's band of outlaws, Pierre joins the gang, and Boone's daughter Jackie falls in love with him, but, Pierre still loves Mary, from whom he has been separated.

Burnt Wings

1920 • 50 min • United States of America

Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced to become a prostitute. After some time, Ned becomes successful, and he and Joan move to New York. There he meets Helen, daughter of wealthy art patron James Cartwright. Cartwright was the man who "bought" Joan in Paris, and when he learns that his daughter's happiness depends upon Ned's divorce, he threatens to expose Joan.

The Best Mouse Loses

1920 • 4 min • United States of America

Boxer Ignatz Mouse bets against himself in a match, then tries to lose the fight on purpose. But Ignatz's wife and Krazy Kat, both unaware of the bet, conspire to make sure Ignatz wins.

The Cuckoo

1920 • 11 min • United States of America

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios

His Wooden Legacy

1920 • 16 min

A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.

Lifting Shadows

1920 • 60 min • United States of America

Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of Death" because she carries certain papers given to her back home by her father. She marries a man who turns out to be a drug addict, and in a heated argument, she shoots him. A young lawyer defends her, then falls in love with her.

Kampen

1920 • 14 min

Documentary about Kampen, one of the oldest Dutch Hanseatic cities, located along the river Gelderse IJssel. We see its most important buildings, including the Hoofdcursus, which is the training building for army officers. Officers from the Indische Leger also trained here.

Egy az eggyel

1920 • 17 min • Hungary

Camilla comes from a well-to-do provincial family. She turns down her country suitors because of their lack of culture and her urban suitors because of their immorality. Finally she falls in love with a poor young artist who is painting her portrait on commission of her father. The chances of their marrying appear slim because of the painter’s modest situation but still they get engaged in secret.

The Night Rider

1920 • 23 min • United States of America

Texas Guinan is having her cattle rustled, so she head into town to hire a night rider. While her one employee is checking out Pat Hartigan, she overhears someone say she needs a husband to manage the ranch. So she pulls out a gun, orders the new preacher over, and marries him at gunpoint, which he doesn't object to. When Hartigan comes over, she opines she's married the wrong man, but facts are facts.

The Shootin' Kid

1920 • 20 min • United States of America

The Shootin' Kid is a 1920 silent Western short