Office Help

Office Help 1925

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An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

1925

The Tale of the Amp Lion

The Tale of the Amp Lion 1925

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William Heath Robinson’s comic drawings of elaborate improvised machines captured the nation’s imagination enough for his name to enter the English language. In this silent cartoon ad he makes the creative step of morphing the ‘Amplion’ loud speaker, marketed for early gramophones and wireless sets, into a rampaging lion.

1925

Around the Boree Log

Around the Boree Log 1925

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Around the Boree Log is a 1925 Australian silent film by Phil K. Walsh adapted from the poems of "John O'Brien" (Patrick Joseph Hartigan). It tells stories of a priest's life around the 1870s in the Goulburn area.

1925

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope 1925

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Kaleidoscope is an unusual abstract film, the result of optical experiments performed by Loyd A. Jones, Head of Kodak Research Laboratories’ Physics Department. Jones combined the principle of the kaleidoscope with Kodachrome, creating what he describes as “dynamic designs of extraordinary beauty and symmetry.”

1925

Lifeboat Schuttevaer

Lifeboat Schuttevaer 1925

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Demonstration of the reliability of the Schuttevaer, which took place in a Rotterdam shipyard in the presence of a group of well-dressed gentlemen.

1925

The Rhône in Switzerland

The Rhône in Switzerland 1925

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Travelogue, following the river upstream by train, from Lake Geneva to the Rhône Glacier.

1925

Bonzo in the Army

Bonzo in the Army 1925

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Bongo joins the army and discovers that it's all meaningless bureaucracy, when he is asked to assemble a gun.

1925

San Francisco, The Golden Gate City

San Francisco, The Golden Gate City 1925

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A beautifully stencil-colored tour titled SAN FRANCISCO, THE GOLDEN GATE CITY. It was one of the three small features that were included in the colorful weekly film magazine PATHÉ REVIEW NO. 29 that was released in the United States on 12 July 1925.

1925