1923 Movies

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard wer...

In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. “Two heads are better...

Silent cartoon.

In 1914, a novelist is declared unfit for service but he regards it his duty to plow the land that others defend. The farmer that he helps leaves for...

An old millionaire is murdered.

Images of everyday life in the poorest sectors of Dominican society.

Travelogue in which we see the spectacular scenery of the Tarn gorges in southern France, including tourists visiting the various locations on barges...

An Aesop Fables animation.

Red-tinted 9,5 mm Baby-Pathé version (1923) of a devilish contortionist short starring Fred Sato (1910/1911).

The year 1905: a young revolutionary, Stefan Okrzeja, carries out a bomb attack on a police station. He is captured and sentenced to death by hanging....

This film shot in the south of Angola, is one of the few existing archival films of the time. It’s likely that the author filmed these images on comma...

Cinema and Theatre Company. Photograph by Manuel Morales.

An elaborate ceremony marks the opening of the first Armenian church in England.

A poor man is sent by his wife to buy fish. On the way to the fish market, he gets drunk, using the money he was supposed to buy the fish with. The ma...

When Al Falfa refuses to purchase a silly salesman's headache remedy, the salesman maneuvers him into getting plenty of bumps on the noggin. After he...

A tooth needs pulling out.

The film shows the development of the Chinese city while highlighting the Portuguese presence: the official buildings, personalities of the colonial a...