Wacky Frenchman Alphonse (Snub Pollard) competes in an American boxing match.

A police deputy in Paris have a lead on an international gang into trafficking. The police dresses as a steward to tail the head of the gang to...

An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.

Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors,...

Skyball Smith is a Texas Ranger, assigned to investigate a series of ranch bombings.

A dubious count comes on a visit.

A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.

A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his boss. He has to clear his name and find the real...

John Pearson of Wall Street and his daughter Helen are out west on vacation to open his exclusive hunting lodge and are accompanied by Clyde...

Indian film released in 1929.

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...

A marionette musical from Tony Sarg's show.

A vibrant ‘city symphony’ showing a day in the life of Milan, from factories to farmers’ markets, skyscrapers, nightclubs, and beyond, with...

Mr. and Mrs. Boul go separately to the spa town of Vittel to experience the waters. Without knowing it they are lodged next door to one another in...

The annoying animal antics- combined with the collapse of his porch- finally get to Farmer Al Falfa, so he sells his house to odd-looking twins. But...

A film by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken.

Avant-garde impression of people shopping in the most important shopping street in Rotterdam.

Pierre Laurier is under the thumb of a dangerous woman. He considers committing suicide but would like to bequeath his soul to his best friend. Good...

Commissioned by the National Confectioners’ Association (NCA), the industrial film tells the fictional story of a track coach who, wanting the best...

Hermann Hähnle demonstrates some of his camera techniques for capturing wild life at the Federsee lake in Southern Germany.

A small sawmill owner competes against a large timber company in hopes of winning a railway tie contract.

Suresh Chabria writes: ‘Continuing Jamai Babu’s association of the city with sexual exploits and licence, this one-reel comedy is about ‘a...

One of the Fitzpatrick traveltalks, this film begins in Valencia. We travel down the Spanish coast, visiting the people who live in caves. We end up...

A short silent film portraying Grey Owl, the famous conservationist, and a family of beavers who would come when he called and take food from his...

Craft demonstration - how to make butterfly hair accessories from beads. (British Pathé)

Collection of everyday scenes in Kyoto, Japan in the year 1929. These films were taken with the early Movietone sound cameras.

Years before "Reefer Madness" brought hysterical misunderstandings of marijuana to mainstream America, audiences were treated to "High on the Range,"...

Fashion newsreel

Fashion newsreel

A tough newspaper reporter and his pretty assistant are investigating a double murder, and soon find themselves the targets of the as yet unknown...

Popular composer-vaudeville star Sol Violinsky plays a piano and violin simultaneously.

Soviet silent travelogue.

Rebuilding of Tokyo after the Great Kantõ earthquake in 1923.

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

Part of BFI collection "On Yer Bike."

British documentary.

If bending the stalks turn the hectic life in the city against the harmony of man and nature in the countryside. The film presents a lyrical...

Charles Hackett sings "Il mio tesoro intanto" from "Don Giovanni" and "O paradiso" from "L'africaine"