Film gaufré: Sonia Delaunay

Film gaufré: Sonia Delaunay 1925

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This rare fashion film is an exquisite showcase of Sonia Delaunay’s ‘Simultaneous’ dresses and fabrics, quite possibly made at the artist’s Parisian studio and home at 19 Boulevard Malesherbes. Dating around 1926-7 and filmed using the tricolor additive Keller-Dorian process (later also known as ‘Kodacolor cine film’), the film presents Delaunay’s geometric designs in rich colours. Having gradually shifted focus from painting to textile and clothing design in the early 1920s, and advocating the production of unique, one-off pieces, Delaunay treated her design work – and quite clearly also this film production – as an extension of her artistic practice. The film was one vehicle with which to make her case that there should be no hierarchy between fine and decorative arts (among other things, Delaunay used the film in her lectures about the influence of painting on clothing design).

1925

The Old Family Toothbrush

The Old Family Toothbrush 1925

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1925 animated cartoon in two-color Technicolor. The Old Family Toothbrush features a character named Kid Noah in “A New Redhead Satire” filmed in Naturecolor, using the Wilson Wetherald Process.

1925

The Talking Teddie Sic

The Talking Teddie Sic 1925

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"The Pathe Sound Magazine presents An All-British Talking Cartoon - Little Bruin - The Talking Teddie." "Episode one --" A broken down building stands on a hill with a sign "Misery Farm" outside. The cartoon is drawn by Joe Noble.

1925

Making a Stetson

Making a Stetson 1925

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Documentary showing the making of Stetson hats, from animal skins to the finished product.

1925

Inklings, Issue 12

Inklings, Issue 12 1925

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Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations. In the first segment, the hand turns around a drawing of an old man and canine-hero Rin Tin Tin magically appears. In the second set of segments, drawings of children morph into adults who look completely unlike their youthful countenances. in the final segment, the hand slices up "The House That Jack Built" into the pictures of the most significant characters in the children's rhyme, and then reattaches the slips of paper to reform the house.

1925

The Snob Buster

The Snob Buster 1925

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When he goes to war, Theodore Pendergast is a snob. When he returns from the trenches of France, he is a democrat whose best friend is Butch McGuire, an ex-prizefighter and regular guy. Ted (as he is now called) takes Butch home with him to meet his father, and the old gentleman immediately has Ted committed to a sanitarium.

1925

Super Speed

Super Speed 1925

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Pat O'Farrell, a rich young man, takes a job as a truck-driver for his uncle's milk company, and falls in love with Cliare Knight, daughter of the Knight Car Company.

1925

Whose Fault is It?

Whose Fault is It? 1925

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According to Yomota Inuhiko's What is Japanese Cinema?, this is the first film produced by a Taiwanese person in Taiwan (circa 1925).

1925

See How Two Boys and a Dog Fool around These Days!

See How Two Boys and a Dog Fool around These Days! 1925

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A commercial promoting Sana margarine. A painter's hand adds two skinny boys to a painting. The boys have a sausage and a wandering dog steals it from them. In a while, another two younger, but also skinny boys, playing at American Indians, join the chase after the dog, running away with the sausage. The older boys, however, finally pursue the younger boys instead of the dog, who eats the sausage in the meantime. The younger boys run into a factory complex in the Prague neighbourhood of Hlubočepy. A well-nurtured cook welcomes them and feeds the hungry and skinny boys almost to the verge of bursting. When the older pursuers arrive, they are surprised how fast the two younger boys gained weight. The concluding text of the commercial claims: "Every proper boy must feed on margarine."

1925

O Flagelo da Humanidade

O Flagelo da Humanidade 1925

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Documentary about syphilis and venereal diseases, presenting in its sad truth the horrific consequences of venereal diseases, affecting the intimate organs of men and women.

1925