1923 Movies

A study of the insect, from caterpillar to butterfly. Part of the “Secrets of Nature” series.

Documentary following a nest of eagles as they raise their children until they are ready to leave the nest.

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 m...

A silent footage.

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

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

Chun-hyang, is secretly engaged to marry Mong-ryong Lee. Lee leaves for Seoul with his father and the new governor, Hak-do Byeon, begins coveting Chun...

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard wer...

Baby Peggy short, 1923

Theatre and Cinema Company. Photograph by Manuel Morales.

Newsreel coverage of the Duke of York's engagement to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Dashing through the snow; on a six-horse open plough... The streets are ready for sledging in 1920s Buxton.

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

Lost Cartoon

Japanese horror movie from 1923.

It's spring time at Regent's Park Zoo and "the children's paradise awakes to life", with hoards of visitors ogling the brown bears, mountain goats and...

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical Bu...