Year 1920 - 70

In the summer of 1920, the staff of the Rembrandt Theatre in Amsterdam went on strike, which was especially unfortunate for the management of the theatre, since they had invited the German film stars Ossi Oswalda, Marga Köhler, and Victor Janson to the Dutch premiere of their film Wohnungsnot (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920). For this special occasion, there were even two extra segments shot with Ossi Oswalda playing the lead role. In one of those films, we see how Oswalda, dressed in traditional Volendam costume, cheerfully makes contact with the local inhabitants. But not every Volendammer seems charmed by the advances of the German diva. Because of the strike, the film could only be screened one time in the presence of the three stars.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

South African Film

Reportage about the opening of the pumping station in Lemmer, Netherlands.

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

Silent French film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020

A three-year-old daughter of a millionaire is kidnapped and a bumbling train agent goes after her.

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.

A Goodwin-Bray Pictograph with Bud and Susie as the main characters and animated by Frank Moser.

A cat observes the wonders of the deep from inside a bottle. Eventually, he finds sunken treasure.

A young boy loves the circus and attempts to make his own.

Cartoon short.

A country boy, Jim Conroy, is living a dissolute life in the city, running around with vamp Helen Ross. When his father cuts him off, he is dumped by Helen and returns to the bush.

Jerry struggles to file his income tax report.

Three siblings, Tom, Jack and Mary escape poverty in the big city to find happiness in the wild west. They split up and soon find each other again on in the opposite side of the law.