1927 - In this silent comedy, a jock looks on and laughs as an aspiring athlete (Buster Keaton) struggles to high jump a low bar.
1920s Setback style and Beaux-Arts Classicism skyscrapers rise above the NYC sky
1920s businessman using a candlestick phone
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1926 - Pedestrians wait to cross an intersection filled with cars, trucks, trolleys and horse-drawn carriages in Newark, New Jersey.
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FRANCE - 1928 - in this silent drama, a soldier tells his companions that he'll be on leave the next day. At that moment a machine gun's bullet kills him. His friends calmly lay him on the trench.
FRANCE - 1929 - in this silent drama, a young Chinese woman recognizes someone at a roulette table and expertly steals some money from him.
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1922 - In this silent comedy western, a white man (Buster Keaton) adopted by a Native American tribe is chased by an enemy tribe.
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UNITED STATES - 1924 - In this romantic comedy, Tom realizes he has given Greta's father arsenic as he tidies medicine bottles. He runs back to Greta's place in panic.
1928 - In this animated film, a film strip invites a telephone and journalists to a movie theater he's wiring for sound.
ONTARIO - 1920s - Ice cutters on a frozen lake in Ontario use cutting equipment that is hauled by horses or motorized.
US - 1926, in this silent romance, a man, about to pay for suspenders, drops everything for his girlfriend when she calls him. He lavishes her hand with kisses while his coworkers laugh at him.
USA - 1929 - In this cartoon, an animal audience cheers for a chicken when she lays an egg during a revue.
Placing A Record On A Vintage Crank Phonograph 4 K
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CANADA - 1928 - In this silent film, a boy opens a double door in a dream and stands on a crate to look inside.
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USA - 1927 - In this silent film, a man with a white face loads suitcases in an elevator. He steps on a mop and is tripped.
USA - 1928 - In this silent comedy, a porter sees a horse and ostrich on a train and is accused of being drunk when he reports it.
MALAYSIA - 1929 - in this drama, a snake charmer plays on his flute, surrounded by a curious crowd. In the next scene, a mongoose fights a large cobra and kills it.
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1927 - In this silent drama, two lovers hold each other in a passionate embrace. When the woman suggests killing the man's wife, he chokes her in shock and rage. She wriggles out of his hold and kisses him.
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AUSTRIA - 1924 - In this silent film, a driver is parked with a sleeping man the back of his car. Men meet in a government building for a vote. The sleeping man wakes and runs from the car.
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FRANCE - 1929 - In this musical comedy, a military band plays and soldiers sing and war song. They pass around a corset and give a woman gifts.
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US - 1929 - in this drama, a manager decides to let a weak player enter a football game, against the coach's wishes, but the player doesn't do exactly as he is instructed. Several Air Force officers are among the audience.
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1924 - In this animated film, a live-action girl and her cat use an industrial vacuum cleaner to suck up a man who's stiffed them of reward money.
INDIA - 1929 - in this epic film, two men wrestle over a fire pit as a test of strength for newcomers to a temple. The winner throws the loser into the fire pit.
US - 1924 - in this silent western, a man puts up a wanted poster on the wall of a house. The wanted man is on a balcony upstairs, laughing. With a few clever maneuvers, he escapes.
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USA - 1921 - In this silent comedy, a bank teller (Buster Keaton) accidentally gets glue on his hands while handing money to a customer and gets the bills stuck on both their hands.
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USA - 1927 - In this silent film, a man dressed like a little boy drinks some punch and falls asleep on a man and woman.
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1929 - In this silent comedy, a man drags a piano out of a house and smashes it with a hammer, unaware of the policeman standing behind them. When he notices him, he tries to put the piano back together.
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USA - 1925 - In this silent film, wild horses run through the desert. Cowboys ride through the desert chasing horses. They run through a ravine. A man is bucked from his horse.
US - 1924 - in this silent comedy, a man climbs on a windmill blade during a storm. The owner tells his scared servant to get up there too and both men fly in the wind as the storm gets worse.
1926 - The Hudson Tubes and Trinity Church are seen in Newark, New Jersey.
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USA - 1925 - In this silent comedy, a hiker at a campsite watches another climber (Charlie Chaplin) haplessly making his way down a snowy mountain and using a paper compass.
1920s - An increase in car owners leads to increased traffic problems in crowded American cities.
1920s - Sun Yat-Sen seeks to turn China into a republic, and Chiang Kai-Shek continues to implement his ideologies after his passing (narrated in the 1930s).
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1920 - downtown Shreveport Louisiana street life
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US - 1924 - in this silent drama, two workers push loaded carts in opposite directions on a wooden bridge. In the next scene, they are arguing. One of them loses his temper and pushes the other one down the ravine.
Traditional Asian Couple Walking on Sunlit Jungle Path
USA - 1928 - In this silent comedy, a service station attendant gets distracted on the job by a beautiful woman.
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FRANCE - 1921 - In this silent film, people fight with swords and spears as people are put in a guillotine. Horses race forward and an executioner grabs a rope. They stop the execution.
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1923 - Servicemen from different branches of the military march ahead of President Harding's casket in his funeral procession down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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1927 - In this silent comedy an African-American toddler throws sugar cubes like dice, which inspires a white boy to want to get a baby brother.
Annoyed Asian Woman Throws Man's Hat on Jungle Bridge
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1929 - In this silent comedy, two men are vandalizing a house and a garden, destroying everything. A third man is trashing a car while a stunned crowd watches. When a policeman approaches, the burly man accidentally hits him.
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1919 - Anthracite coal is mined and miners descend into the coal mine.
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FRANCE - 1923 - in this silent drama, a woman and her visitor dreamily mention known places in Paris. Sitting close together, she takes his hands, but he removes them, hands her a briefcase, trusting her to return it to its proper place.
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USA - 1920 - In this biography film, a pitcher strikes out a baseball player as the crowd watches the game in the baseball stadium.
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1920s - President Coolidge, the First Lady, and Secretaries Davis and Kellogg meet with Pan-American fliers on an airfield.
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USSR - 1927 - In this docudrama, people clap as a man makes a speech.
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FRANCE - 1926 - In this silent comedy, a man tends to a woman who's just crashed her bicycle and they get honked at by mocking driver.