Search Results: 1920s

1920s Fragments and Wax Experiments

Never-released early experiments, animation drawings and tests from Oskar Fishcinger.

The Hidden Secrets: Gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s

Never before has a gallery of cops, robbers, and daredevil crooks ever been assembled into one collection. Using FBI and police film, archival footage, and rare photographs, this s...

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical

The 1920s was a time of great change in Hollywood. This program tells the story of the advent of sound technology for movies and the emergence of talkies and musicals in Hollywood....

Rediscovered Images of Santiago from the 1920s

Various scenes of the city of Santiago in the 1920s. The footage is striking for its images of the Alameda, Santa Lucía Hill, Mapocho Station, the Museum and School of Fine Arts, g...

"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s

For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corpora...

Memories of Millport Isle of Cumbrae in the 1920's & 1930's

Millport in the 1920's and 1930's A truly wonderful window on Scottish history looking back to the 1920’s and 30’s on this beautiful Scottish island of the Clyde Coast. The prime m...

T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues ...

A Man Travels Into the 1920s and Is Culturally Shocked Big Time

Avant-Garde: Experimental cinema of the 1920s and ’30s

In the latter half of the 20th Century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. Programming diverse films at the Coronet Theatre in Los ...

Une Française à Kaboul : L'Aventure d'une vie

Homemade Horror Film Compilation 1920, 1940s, and 1960s

A compilation of homemade horror movies

Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919

On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay...