100 Years Ago This Month: November 1925

• The western comedy Go West opens on November 1. Silent film legend Buster Keaton stars as Friendless, and Fatty Arbuckle appears in an uncredited role.

• The Victrola Talking Machine Company introduces its new electrically-recorded phonograph records on November 2. The records can be played on the Victor Orthophonic Victrola, which cost around $95 in 1925, or the equivalent of nearly $1,700 in 2025.

• The film The Pleasure Garden was released on November 3. The release marks the directorial debut of English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

• Italian Socialist Tito Zaniboni is arrested in a room a...