All Films

In this one-minute animated short done by Ford Motor's industrial film unit -- Ford was a major producer of films for many a decade -- Lady Liberty keeps opening the chest, revealing the name of various wartime Liberty Loan drives and good old Uncle Sam does a striptease and tossing clothes into the effort.

A young man becomes a burglar due to hunger, but after gathering up his booty feeds himself from the victims' larders, and thus, no longer hungry, feels compelled to return the loot. In one case, he is discovered in the act by a young lady who finds in him a suitable case for reclamation.

Several people apply for an election.

Clarita, a young girl, finds a poor hungry man, who gives him some coins and comforts him with affectionate words. The scene takes place on a walk and when the little girl runs back to her house, she loses the embroidered handkerchief with her name, collected and stored with love for the unhappy beggar. The plot is complicated in episodes linked to play chance.

From workers opening bales of cotton, this film follows the processes that turn the raw resource into a product ready for the shops. Cleaning, straightening, carding, spinning and weaving - all these and more are on view in this visual record of the Lancashire textile industry, made for the firm of Barlow and Jones Ltd., and filmed at their mills in Bolton and their Manchester warehouse. -BFI

Captain Grogg and Kalle are swimming in the ocean when some monkeys steal their clothes.

A compilation film in four parts about the “beauty, treasures, inhabitants and culture” of the Dutch East Indies. The film was compiled composed by Johan Gildemeijer using material that J.C. Lamster and colleagues shot for the Colonial Institute for the Tropics in the Dutch East Indies. (Source: filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl)

In 1917, Filmfabriek Hollandia was commissioned to make a film about the state mines in Limburg. The film was directed by Jules Stoop, who shot footage of the Heerlen mines ‘Emma’, ‘Wilhelmina’, and ‘Hendrik’. In the first part of the film, Stoop shows the underground mining activity: the descent by lift, the mining and removal of coal, and a horse stable located more than 200 metres underground, where we see a blacksmith at work. The second part contains images of the marshalling railway yards, the briquette works, and the above-ground offices.

Short silent animation film.

This documentary shows the most important squares, streets, and buildings of Zaltbommel, Netherlands, with shots of the river Waal. We see the market, the water tower, old fortifications, the railway bridge, the St Maartens tower, the carillon tower, and the cable ferry. The film also has footage of a shipyard where ocean ships are built.

Philips presents itself as a modern, international company that has its own laboratory, power station, and transport service. Notable in the film is the detailed attention paid to the various components of the lightbulbs. Concert footage of the ‘Philip’s Harmonie’ in performance shows that Philips was proud of the many facilities it provided to its employees. The Eindhoven-based factory offered its workers accommodation, sports, and recreation.

A historical tour of Hoorn in North Holland.

Animated gags made by Quirino Cristiani, Argentina's foundational animator.

Military occasions around India and Pakistan, featuring the Khyber Pass, Srinagar, Rawalpindi and Peshawar.

Miss Arizona Farnley (Gertrude Bondhill), tomboy of the West, avenges the death of her father, who was killed by Bob Evans during a bar fight at The Oasis.

A short travel film about Istanbul, mostly filmed from a ship moored in Karaköy, at the entrance to the Bosphorus.

A man leaves his wife alone every evening to gamble and enjoy the nightlife. But one night, when he arrives home, he finds her drinking and smoking languorously next to the butler.

Believing her husband to have died on an allied mission to Russia, wealthy Englishwoman Rosalind Dane devotes her life to her three-year-old daughter Patty. When a gypsy band arrives, Rosalind is strangely attracted to them and permits them to camp on her estate. She falls in love with one of them, Ben Galli, and throws a lawn fete, during which Rowena, a fortune-teller, predicts that there will be a tragic death in her family and that she will leave with the gypsies.

A footage showing a crowd coming to Cuautla for the famous revolutionary leader's funerals.

Family life between a couple who live in the forest. One day the baby gets sick. This tells the story of Adam’s troubles when he tries to get a doctor for his sick baby.

A wry political satire rendered in early animation, Los Que Ligan uses humor and caricature to explore the aftermath of World War I through the lens of global diplomacy. Focusing on the power plays between England, Germany, France, and Argentina in the wake of the League of Nations' postwar sanctions, Cristiani crafts a sharp, animated allegory that critiques the fragile nature of international relations and Argentina’s place on the world stage. One of the only surviving works by pioneering animator Quirino Cristiani, Los Que Ligan is especially significant for showcasing the wry, politically charged humor that defined his career. Long thought lost, the film was rediscovered during research for Gabriele Zucchelli’s 2008 documentary “Quirino Cristiani: The Mystery of the First Animated Movies”, offering modern audiences a rare glimpse into Cristiani’s legacy and the early history of animated political cinema.

Vendebout (a play on “vent debout,” or headwind) and his friend Courandair (“courant d’air,” or draft) invent a flying house that transports them to a desert in less time than it would take to read about it in a book of travels.