The Fidelity to A Student's Principle 1920
The concubine devises a plan to take possession of the property of the house. She tries to poison her husband and imprison her son, but the truth is revealed by the army captain who entered the house.
The concubine devises a plan to take possession of the property of the house. She tries to poison her husband and imprison her son, but the truth is revealed by the army captain who entered the house.
A short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020.
Footage of policemen running, climbing and crawling through an obstacle course.
La cintura delle Amazzoni (presumed a lost film but actually in perfect health, preserved by the Narodní filmový archív), promises fun, elegance and erotic innuendos. The story concerns a circus of attractions that comes to town. The owner of the local country club is keen on aquiring the circus owner's fine white mares - however to make that happen he must court Cleopatra, his daughter - when he is actually in love with the beautiful niece instead. All the while, a group of no-nonsense/no-men Amazons arrive in town promissing to beat the local athletes to a sports' match on the arena.
Monkey business at the beach.
A 1920 film.
Ethnographic silent film.
Swedish WW1 documentary.
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.
Turkmeni newsreel made in the 1920s.
When railroad boss Mr. Givney needs a pesky mosquito exterminated, Jerry is on the job. But Jerry's efforts bug Givney more than the bug.
The surviving print of Mules and Gob Talk (the original introduction is missing) begins with spectacular vistas of Yellowstone National Park and majestic herds of buffalo (“a snooty lot” in the intertitles) and ends with “wild” deer being fed by tourists and foraging in garbage cans. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation, New Zealand Project, in 2012.
A Danish bird documentary.
A cat observes the wonders of the deep from inside a bottle. Eventually, he finds sunken treasure.
Hollandse Tulpen en Klompen – litterally Dutch Tulips and Clogs – consists of two short fragments each describing a traditional facet of post-war Netherlands. The first fragment shows men and women working on the tulip fields. The second fragment shows children playing at the Island of Marken, wearing the traditional costumes of their hometown.