An old man, with many branches to his family tree, attempts to make the quarrelsome crew live in harmony by promising them his money if they will all build houses on the same plot of ground and live peacefully for one year. Not having room on the lot, one family takes to the air, hitching its home to a balloon.


A balloon-tethered house, a chest of golden promises, and a calendar dripping with malice—welcome to the delirious 365 Days, a 1923 one-reeler that feels like Dickens moonlighting as a circus roustabout. In the lacquered silence of early cinema, where title cards replace the human voice and every eyebrow lift arrives...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Charley Chase

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" A balloon-tethered house, a chest of golden promises, and a calendar dripping with malice—welcome to the delirious 365 Days, a 1923 one-reeler that feels like Dickens moonlighting as a circus roustabout. In the lacquered silence of early cinema, where title cards replace the human voice and every eyebrow lift arrives like a telegram, 365 Days stages an inheritance as communal blood sport. The film—long thought lost until a nitrate flare turned up in a Norwegian barn—runs a hair under twenty-f..."
Molly Thompson
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