کال 1920 - 75

A 1920 film.

Eddie Lyons discovers it's hard to be a family man.

A documentary commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company for its 250th anniversary in 1920. The film depicts a journey to different Hudson's Bay outposts across Canada.

Return to Zion is Yaacov Ben-Dov’s third film and the first motion picture the JNF had acquired for distribution amongst Jews around the world. The film, thought to have been lost, was unearthed in Prague in 1989 and in the 1990s, a copy was handed over to the Israeli Film Archive at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. The film, among other things, features the imprisonment of Ze’ev Jabotinsky and his friends in Acre; Mandatory Palestine’s First High Commissioner, Herbert Samuel’s tours of Jaffa and Jerusalem; pioneering Jewish immigrants and their budding agricultural, rural and urban communities across the land; archaeological excavations in Tiberias and Jerusalem, and rare footage of early-days Tel Aviv.

Turkmeni newsreel made in the 1920s.

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.

A young girl has to prove her skillness with the gun against a gang outlaws, revealing herself as the real heroine of a Western town.

Farmer Al Falfa is a patrolman rollerskating through the park. A day of misadventures climaxes with a monkey stealing his clothes.

A woman poses, in and out of her diaphanous shift.

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

Christmas Thoughts is a short promotional film produced by the Ford Motor Company in 1920. Distributed to Ford dealers, it aimed to encourage charitable initiatives such as the Goodfellows Clubs, which provided food and gifts to families in need during the holiday season. The story follows a group of businessmen who decide to deliver a festive meal and presents to a struggling family. The film concludes with heartwarming scenes of children meeting Santa Claus and receiving gifts, emphasizing generosity and community spirit.

Early sex education film sponsored by the national group created to inform the public about sexuality and venereal disease. In Gift of Life a scientist helps a boy observe the reproductive processes of tiny plants and animals under a microscope and uses animated diagrams to explain the reproductive processes of higher animals and humans.

Shows processes in the mining of coal; includes operations below and above ground.

A man is seen by a hen, which is sitting on a nest. The three little men enter, the hen eats one of the men's hats and drinks iron potion. The man takes the egg with him, tries to warm it up, a blacksmith hits it with a hammer and a scientist examines the egg, but none of them succeed in breaking the egg. The egg is thrown out of the window and a road worker tries to hammer the egg - without success. The man sees a cannon, the egg is shot out of the cannon and lands by the three little men. The egg breaks open and a hat comes out. Stumfilm.dk

An Out of the Inkwell short.

An animated film exploring what it might take to communicate with Mars, using mirrors, huge flashing electric lights or gigantic strips of black cloth set out in the desert.