Most Viewed Year 1923 - 62

When Al Falfa refuses to purchase a silly salesman's headache remedy, the salesman maneuvers him into getting plenty of bumps on the noggin. After he...

Pathé cartoon; 1920s; of a German actress popular during Weimar years – a heavy-lined caricature of woman with a short dark bob. Eyes...

Cross-Play (A reflector light play) Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, 1923 This copy was produced in 1965 with narration.

In a spoof of the 1920s mantra "every day in every way, I'm getting better and better", a cat goes around a farm with a self-help book preaching the...

Apirana Ngata, Member of Parliament for Eastern Māori, was keen for the museum group to visit the East Coast to obtain records of his people of...

When Al Falfa's house is overrun by mice, he gets a cat to keep them down. All too soon he finds that his mouser may deal with the mice, but now he...

Truly an obscure piece of forgotten silent cinema, this film boasts fine production values; Using its set pieces, location shots, costumes and crowd...

This film shot in the south of Angola, is one of the few existing archival films of the time. It’s likely that the author filmed these images...

The film shows the development of the Chinese city while highlighting the Portuguese presence: the official buildings, personalities of the colonial...

A history of communications and how they work.

Fay Wray's first film

The Duke of York and his bride board a train in South London. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Trijn, a spirited girl from Volendam, while dancing to the music of the village band, is seen by two impresarios who offer her a contract to appear...

Austrian cartoon that promotes the Vienna Trade Fair.

The documentary shows the evocative seascape and land of the island of Caprera pausing to illustrate the house of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the relics, the...