Year 1920 - 80

Silent film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020

An Italian movie by Giovanni Pezzinga.

A silent black-and-white movie from Hungary.

A short documentary about various insects.

Origin unknown. Circa 1920. Excerpt from a longer short or theatrical holiday trailer. Sold for home use in 16mm 25 foot length. Accompanied here with a Mighty ROXY Wurlitzer.

A travelogue from Greece, showing sites in Piraeus and Athens.

This movie about the Estonian capital Tallinn - also known by the name Reval in Germany, Sweden and Denmark - begins with an impressive harbour tour. Some of the best known sights follow: the towers of the town walls (Kiek in de Kök and "Long Hermann"), the cathedral and the promenade. Then an important economic sector is portrayed: fishing and the processing of fish. In the end, before the film ends abruptly, there is a scene with a training run of the plant fire brigade.

A documentary on the preparations for and running of the famed horserace between Sir Barton and Man O' War in 1920.

Fashion newsreel

By Caravan through East Africa.

American silent comedy.

Ethnographic short documentary.

By showing the production line and the finished product, an advertisement for the Horizontina ceramics factory ends up revealing the abusive child labor and precarious conditions of its employees.

Twisted Souls was a film that was never officially released to the public and only a 3 minute fragment exists of the film today.

Turkmeni newsreel made in the 1920s.

Festivities in Antwerp. Parade in the streets of Antwerp on the occasion of the national holiday.

Russian experimental film released around 1920.