1921 Movies

This comedy is inspired by the American movies of adventure about the Indians and detectives, chase and shooting.

A short documentary showing the life of chipmunks.

How jam gets into donuts.

A documentary on the people, customs, and wildlife of the Southeast Asian island of Bali.

This reportage shows the royal ride from Amsterdam’s Central Station to Dam Square, on April 15, 1921. From the balcony of the Royal Palace, the Queen...

In the summer of 1921 (Taisho 10),a major labour dispute broke out at the Kawasaki-Mitsubishi shipyard in Kobe. The Kawasaki-Mitsubishi dispute is sa...

Silent cartoon.

The fairies receive poetic instructions about making the flowers bloom each day.

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

Views of the Iquitos advance; typical customs of the aborigines of the Amazon region; the Peruvian river flotilla; modes of navigation on the Amazonia...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Silent film

A chemist uses ink poured into water; the water is filmed upside down, and an artist uses the swirling shapes as the basis of fanciful drawings.

Spoiled and self-centered society girl, Christine Trevor, neglects her sister and two brothers and merely tolerates her indulgent father. When her fat...

Silent american newsreel from Selznick news, preserved by the New Zealand Film Archives

Documentary on the Queen of Romania.

Silent newsreel footage shows noted British artist Louis Wain in this home