1921 Movies

The latest accessories for decorating hairstyles are shown. (British Pathé)

Silent cartoon.

The Honourable Dr. Māui Pōmare (Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa) is one of a large number of manuhiri who converge on Kāingarakiraki, a homestead in Ōtaki, to attend the tangi of Heeni Te Rei. Kuia and whānau sit with the tūpāpaku in the tent throughout the tangi. V...

Japanese horror movie from 1921.

Japanese horror movie from 1921.

Filmed by aerial photographer J.M. McGarrigle during an exhibition flight by English aviator Jack Sisson.

Japanese horror movie from 1921.

Silent cartoon.

Things are moving like poetry.

Topical Budget (the great British newsreel that ran from 1911-31) here presents a light-hearted item on the Football Association's proposed ban on women's football.

A reportage about the manufacture of objects in a copper workshop at Passar Gedeh in Yogyakarta.

Cora, an young woman raised as an orphan, comes into her inheritance but must face highway men and the schemes of powerful men at the borders of her estate.

Ham and Sam, two American neighbors, have a feud over bad music that affects the happiness of their children.

Based on Toepffer's work, the famous 19th century Swiss designer.

1921 silent film about the Lost Colony at Roanoke, which was produced in Manteo, N.C., by Atlas Educational Film Co., as part of a series of films covering the earliest English Expeditions (1584-1591) in the U.S.

A documentary following Professor Holtedahl's expedition to Novaja Semlja up in the fart North.

Silent film

A short film screened Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021. The film demonstrates "the inability of most filmmakers to meet a foreign culture in an appropriate manner, while offering gorgeous cinematographic shots from African landscapes, an important raison d’être of the...