Cockeyed, which manipulates city scenes of New York into visual fantasies, is a segment from Pathé Review, a one-reel U.S. weekly begun in 1920 and promoted as “the Magazine of the Screen.” Pathé distinguished its weekly newsreel (“all news all the time”) from its lighter Review (“the best obtainable…scenics and the like”).
At a noisy inn, a young servant woman tries to sing a baby to sleep. The innkeeper and his wife berate and abuse the servant. Later that night, in hunger, misery, and desperation, she leaves and wanders through a Chagal-like landscape. The baby's cries wake up the innkeeper and his wife. Where has the woman gone? For whom is the lullaby?
An early sound film featuring Gus Visser and a duck.
It's 1925 on the River Thames and Jack Beresford cruises to an easy victory in The Gold Cup - so easy his opponent, American Walter Hoover, is out of view. Beresford had successfully defended the title he won in 1924, the same year he won his first of three Olympic gold medals. Beresford, CBE, is one of Britain's most outstanding rowers and his streak of winning five medals in five consecutive Olympic Games was only beaten Sir Steve Redgrave at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
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."
The King Is Dreaming is depicting the adventures of our Tramp in an enchanted castle.
The beginnings of radio broadcasting in Sweden.
Marcus draws a bird, finally turning it upside down to show a perfect likeness to Galli Curci. Likenesses in the short also include W. H. Taft, General Joffre, Napoleon, J.P. Morgan, Sessue Hayakawa, Nickolai Lenin, La Follette.
The resultant faces this time are: Lady Astor, David Belasco, Clara Kimball Young, Billie Burke and Larry Semon.
Scenes from 1920s Izmir, Turkey, presumably taken before 1925.
Lost film. Helja, an Estonian woman, and his British groom John have met during the Estonian War of Independence. They hear from an old professor of an old folk tale about the dark past of Estonia. Estonian pageboy Mangu who works at von Sternhell's manor proposes a pretty slave girl Linda. However, von Sternhell gives orders to steal the bride right in the middle of the wedding. She will be taken to von Sternhell's castle according to the brutal middle-age custom – the law of the first night. Together with fellow villagers, Mangu gets into a desperate battle with the noblemen in order to save his wife's pride.
A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short.
Animated cartoon spoof of the Topical Budget newsreel - "Having received many complaints from canine cinema-goers that their viewpoint is not considered, Bonzo offers this topical Bonzette". Features openings, events and sports.
Two small films advertising the Copenhagen-based department store Magasin du Nord. The first presents a fashion show comprising what are presumably dresses from the store’s Model Salon. The second is a short film featuring Peter and Ping, two well-known characters created by cartoonist Storm P., visiting various departments in the store. (Stumfilm.dk)
An Aesop's Film Fables cartoon.
The film depicts a journey on the Dal River in Sweden.
