1925 Movies

Churches, schools, and other locations in Clearview, OK; Muskogee, OK; Guthrie, OK; Langston, OK; and Bristow, OK.

"Mag the Hag" is a 1925 amateur fiction film shot and edited by Hiram Percy Maxim (1869-1936),founder of the Amateur Cinema League.

This film, whose German title is a gen­der-flipped play on the proverbial phrase “clothes make the man”, shows how the batik dyeing technique is used to create vividly patterned garments in a small re­tail shop in New York. Different items of clothing are then...

In a village near Florence (referred to as “Scicci” in the Dutch intertitles),the female inhabitants sit in front of their houses, manufacturing straw hats. This short film depicts the entire process of a hat being made and ends with a model wearing it to dem...

The beginnings of radio broadcasting in Sweden.

Shots of the port of Rotterdam, with images of the busy maritime traffic along the Maas river and the vertical-lift bridge above the Koningshaven, “the modern miracle of technology”.

Silent puppet animation film in which a thief takes the place of a sick kitchen maid. Meanwhile, two fathers play pool over the marriage between their daughter and son. No one notices the deception and the thief breaks into the safe. However, it explodes, send...

Method used to combat the coffee borer: the use of a purge chamber, the application and circulation of sulphide in gutters, the use of the compound in empty bags, the use of water to seal the chamber lid, in order to prevent the spread of the pest. Aspects of...

Directed by N. Scerbakov.

Atahualpa Film. Filmed by Nora M. Tinere.

India. Muslim religious ceremonies celebrated in Calcutta Year: 1925 Country: Francia Running time: 1'

Lost short film.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Compilation of tourist images of Italy (such as Isola Bella, Lake Como, Messina) and presumably Switzerland and Austria.

The film was divided into three episodes set in different eras. The first featured scenes from the life of Saint Rose of Lima, “evoked by a lovely young lady from Lima, whose name we will keep secret.” These were recreations of the saint's life in the style of...

Snapshots of colonial life around Tamil Nadu, plus a visit to the Toda tribe.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

This rare fashion film is an exquisite showcase of Sonia Delaunay’s ‘Simultaneous’ dresses and fabrics, quite possibly made at the artist’s Parisian studio and home at 19 Boulevard Malesherbes. Dating around 1926-7 and filmed using the tricolor additive Keller...

Italy. President Mussolini on vacation on Lake Piana dei Greci.