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The Fraeon Archive · The 1920s
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1926

The silent summit — when film grammar was invented shot by shot and cinema first believed it was an art.

The films everyone saw

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The General

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

4.0

The General

1926

A Page of Madness

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

3.6

A Page of Madness

1926

Faust

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

4.0

Faust

1926

Anemic Cinema

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

3.1

Anemic Cinema

1926

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.

3.8

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

1926

Flesh and the Devil

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

3.6

Flesh and the Devil

1926

The Black Pirate

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.

3.4

The Black Pirate

1926

Emak-Bakia

Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he is better known), including Rayographs, double exposure, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.

3.4

Emak-Bakia

1926

Ménilmontant

A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.

3.7

Ménilmontant

1926

Battling Butler

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

3.4

Battling Butler

1926

Mother

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

3.6

Mother

1926

Tartuffe

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.

3.6

Tartuffe

1926

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The blue castle

Juvenile fiction · Friendship

The blue castle

Lucy Maud Montgomery

1926

Fifty Candles

Mystery · Suspense

Fifty Candles

Earl Derr Biggers

1926

The Richest Man in Babylon

Business ethics · Personal Finance

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

1926

Picasso

20th century · Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Picasso

Pablo Picasso

1926

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

detective fiction · mystery

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

1926

The Sun Also Rises

Fiction, Historical · Expatriation, fiction

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

1926

The land of mist

Professor Challenger (Fictitious character) · Fiction

The land of mist

Arthur Conan Doyle

1926

The Bat

Classic Literature · American Detective and mystery stories

The Bat

Mary Roberts Rinehart

1926

The light princess

Children's fiction · Princesses, fiction

The light princess

George MacDonald

1926

Das Schloß

Fiction · Bureaucracy

Das Schloß

Franz Kafka

1926

The Story of Philosophy

Philosophers · Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant

1926

The treasure of the lake

The treasure of the lake

H. Rider Haggard

1926

The door with seven locks

Fiction, mystery & detective, general · Detective and mystery stories

The door with seven locks

Edgar Wallace

1926

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války

European War, 1914-1918 · Fiction

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války

Jaroslav Hašek

1926

The Chinese parrot

Charlie Chan (Fictitious character) · Police

The Chinese parrot

Earl Derr Biggers

1926

My mortal enemy

American fiction (fictional works by one author) · American fiction

My mortal enemy

Willa Cather

1926

Topper

Bank employees · Fiction

Topper

Thorne Smith

1926

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

History · Social conditions

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Richard H. Tawney

1926

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