1922 Movies

We start with a demonstration of the bootleg bottling process before the liquor bottles are smashed into barrels by law enforcement. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

G-men uncover a cache of smuggled liquor, confiscate it, and destroy it on a riverbank. Currently available as part of the Treasures of the American Film Archives boxed set.

Santa spells out an animated Christmas Card while a child dreams.

Competitors from Bristol.

Images of school life at the first HBS (Higher Civic School) in Haarlem, in a film made for its anniversary.

The lying in state of the body of the Antartic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in Montevideo, Uruguay, and its transfer to ship for burial on the island of South Georgia, 1922.

Pathé Frères, at the time the world's largest company in film production and pioneers in documentary films, visited Kiruna and Malmberget in 1913. The result is a fantastic insight into the mining of that time.

This is a tale of a cat who eludes a street cop to prey on some mice in a house.

NERVES OF STEEL - are wanted by Steeplejacks when 'banding a 170 ft chimney not forgetting the cameraman.

Silent film also known as Fighting for Eternal Peace.

To the general public the Cinematographer's art is a mystery, and suggests magic... Yet it is a scientific process, involving wide knowledge and hard work. Incidentally it is now one of the first industries in the world.

One of Disney's lost Lafflets cartoons.

Silent film

1922 newsreel inspired from census data produced by Lewis J. Selznick