1924 Movies

A romance overflowing with gaucho sentimentality that takes place at a time when, since the citizen did not enjoy the freedom of conscience that came later to grant the secret vote, the inland populations were fatally enslaved by the caudillos.

Theatre and Cinema Company.

Peruvian Film Company. Short narrative film directed by Alberto Madueño.

A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it predict the winner of tomorrow's race? And just whom is the “inventor” trying to escape anyway?

Herr Nerz of Berlin University studies training methods at West Ham.

A Clara Bow-type young lovely takes a bath. Then, to her horror, she discovers a raggedy rodent (albeit a weirdly immobile one) on the bathroom floor. A passerby comes to her rescue and, as a reward, sticks around to get "better acquainted." But he (and we) ha...

Pongo walks along a road wearing a boxing glove - he looks very determined. He stops and puts a telescope up to his eye. His eyeball moves around as seen through the telescope. He looks to his left then towards the audience then to the right. He jumps up with...

An informative documentary in five parts about the life of the 17th century microbiologist and microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and his discoveries in the field of micro-organisms.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

"A far-fetched, overdrawn story of two men who try to prove their courage and devotion to the same girl, by getting flowers she has expressed a desire for, from Pinnacle Rock, in Mount Rainier National Park, where the picture was photographed. They shadow each...

This two-reel comedy was the second of three shorts in which Will Rogers starred as Congressman Alfalfa Doolittle, a naive and unsophisticated but basically good-hearted guy from the heartland who finds himself rubbing elbows with Washington power brokers.

In 1924 Pavlova (1881-1931) visited the Fairbanks studios, where The Thief of Bagdad was in production, and was filmed on the set in 7 short dances (not 6 as is stated on the original title, which may have been intended for a shortened version of the film). It...

Peruvian Film Company. Filmed by Alberto Madueño.

Abyssinian state ministers visit London during Prince Regent Haile Selassie's diplomatic tour of Europe. A group of Ethiopian state dignitaries appear in their ceremonial best for the Topical Budget. A short newsreel, taken at the time of future emperor Haile...

Toys are distributed at a hospital.

Arboga, Sweden: the train station, the river, the hospital and the market. This silent film is shown with new music by Matti Bye.

British inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates what he claims to be a directed energy weapon which has the potential to revolutionise warfare forever.

Peruvian Film Company. Contains: Cardinal Benlloch's arrival in Lima and the celebrations in his honor; the inauguration of the Las Palmas airfield and the Jorge Chávez school; a party organized by Messrs. Visconti and Velásquez, owners of the Zoo restaurant,...