1921 Movies

Felix tries to catch a fish without getting wet.

According to an information in the George P. Johnson Collection at the UCLA Special Collections Library, this was the first release of The Afro-American Film Exhibitors Co. of Kansas City, Missouri.

In March and April 1921 several weeks were spent by Elsdon Best, Johannes Anderson and James McDonald, of the Dominion Museum, at Koriniti, Hiruharama and Pipiriki in the Whanganui River valley. The scenes in this film record games such as skipping and string...

First film produced by Laugh-O-Gram Studio, as part of demo reel. This film is not really animated, it just consists of Walt drawing a single frame. Part of the Newman Laugh-O-Grams Series.

A previously lost political satire animation about Arturo Alessandri, the recently elect president of Chile at that time.

A Nick Carter mystery

Travelogue from Cologne, Kevlaer and the Rhine Valley, shot during production of The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar.

A Nick Carter mystery

This famous satire contrasts conservative Bengali culture with that of the colonial elite. It is the story of a young Indian who returns to his native land after a long absence. He is so mightily impressed with his foreign training that, at his parental home,...

President Harding and his wife paying tribute to a group of Indians (Fragment of a longer piece)

Silent cartoon.

A wealthy Russian family faces change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.

The Winning Track is one of many, many Hoot Gibson Western film shorts.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

The story of a rural Burmese villager named Ma Nu.

George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a young man -- he is supposed to have been in his mid-fifties when this movie was made, but if so, he could have pa...