1924 Movies

Arboga, Sweden: the train station, the river, the hospital and the market. This silent film is shown with new music by Matti Bye.

Felix builds a soapbox derby.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

The lives of Swedish Americans in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Washington DC, Minnesota and Illinois is documented, as a greeting to t...

The warping lens used to photograph 10th Avenue seems to puzzle the filmmakers.

An elderly man from the countryside arrives in Riga and adventures ensue....

In the 1920s the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to explore filmmaking as part of its educational program, and in 1924 it released two films about Ar...

A basque melodrama

Panorama of Judenburg. Transportation of the remains of the leaders of the military revolt shot in 1918 in Judenburg. Reception at Ljubljana railway s...

Reportage about demonstrations following a robbery in Culemborg, Netherlands. On 24 December in 1923, Thomas van Wiggen and his sister Gerrigje were m...

The famous brothers entertain a wild audience at the circus, but a single lady seated at the front remains sad and fails to laugh. The men question th...

A colonial fantasy in miniature format.

A silent film made for Konkokyo

"Il passato che torna is such a mysterious title that it doesn’t appear in even the most high-end film encyclopaedias. Once again, the tiny reel we ha...

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Animals learn how to do tricks by concentrating. Eventually, Farmer Al Falfa wants to try.

Peruvian Film Company. Filmed by Alberto Madueño. “With beautiful jumps taken with delayed motion”.