Films and TV Shows from the 1920s

poster Weary Willies
Weary Willies
8mn - Animation
Oswald faces off against Peg Leg Pete
poster The Ship
The Ship
86mn - Drama, History
The newly-settled city of Venice in the Sixth Century AD: A wandering people struggle to establish Christian Theocracy. Basiliola Faledro, an exotic dancer, wicked and cunning, arrives from faraway lands …
poster The Post
The Post
15mn - Animation
A boy is sitting at a table, writing a letter for Boris Prutkov. The cartoon follows the journey of this letter from Rostov to Leningrad, where its addressee Prutkov has just left for Berlin; when the let…
poster A Close Call
A Close Call
7mn - Animation
The short starts with a mouse playing some bell-like tulips like musical bells....
poster Hurdy Gurdy
Hurdy Gurdy
7mn - Animation
Pete is a organ grinder, until Oswald spits out his gum and Pete's monkey gets tangled in the gum. Pete then uses Oswald as the monkey..
poster Permanent Wave
Permanent Wave
6mn - Animation, Comedy
Rough seas makes it difficult for Captain Peg Leg Pete. Oswald tries to make his captain soup, but a duck steals Pete's dinner.
poster Mother Gooseland
Mother Gooseland
(3.4/5)
7mn - Animation
"Out of the Inkwell” cartoon by Fleischer Studios.
poster Opus IV
Opus IV
4mn - Animation
An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.
poster Rhythm 23
Rhythm 23
3mn - Animation
We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background.
poster Lightning Love
Lightning Love
20mn - Comedy
The storm, which takes up most of the second reel, is a trial run for the storm sequence in The Wizard Of Oz which Semon would make in 1925. Fox released a comedy that was an exact copy of Lightning Love…
poster Terrible Vavila and Auntie Arina
Terrible Vavila and Auntie Arina
7mn - Animation
Educational film about March 8th, about the situation of rural women.
poster Ubasuteyama
Ubasuteyama
18mn - Drama, Family, History
Based on a Japanese legend, this animated short tells the story of a farmer who attempts to hide his mother from the wrath of a Lord who forces all people 60 and older from his village.
poster Tusalava
Tusalava
9mn - Animation
With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images from tribal cu…
poster Woos Whoopee
Woos Whoopee
7mn - Animation, Comedy
One of Otto Messmer's most unusual Felix cartoons. It portrays Felix as an inebriated feline being chased by all kinds of demons only to be welcomed by the greatest demon of all, the angry wife.
poster Frolics at the Circus
Frolics at the Circus
6mn - Animation
Felix Frolics at the Circus is an American animated short film featuring Felix the Cat and released on September 26, 1920.
poster Diagonal Symphony
Diagonal Symphony
7mn - Animation
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes an…
poster The Trespasser
The Trespasser
(3.3/5)
90mn - Drama
In her first talking picture, Gloria Swanson stars as a stenographer whose love for a wealthy man leads to scandal, sacrifice, and a fight for her dignity in this Oscar-nominated pre-Code drama.
poster Applause
Applause
(3.6/5)
80mn - Drama, Music
A burlesque performer struggles with personal sacrifice and the seedy reality of show business as she tries to secure a better future for her daughter.
poster Дурман Демьяна
Дурман Демьяна
6mn - Animation
The main character of the satirical cartoon, the worker Demian, spent all his salary on alcohol. The film describes the city through the eyes of a drunkard: he sees swaying street lamps with serpent heads…
poster White Shadows in the South Seas
White Shadows in the South Seas
(3.4/5)
88mn - Drama, Romance
An alcoholic doctor finds redemption on a remote Polynesian island where the natives revere him as a god, while he struggles to protect them from the exploitation of white traders.