Cinematic Era: 1929 Vintage

Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold digger.

In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.

Okay, this is an entry in the "Aesop's Sound Fables" and is a version of the little-black-duck and the wolf-in-sheep's clothing fables about the sibling duck who was shunned because of his color, and not because of race.

Short film shown as a complement to the film "Acabaram-se os Otários".

With help from his talented horse and dog, a marshal captures bandits.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

A documentary about the making of L'argent, the epic silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. The film shows the details of many of the more complicated moving camera shots.

An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball.

Criminal intrigue and bullfighting world, in a film starring the bullfighter Nicanor Villalta and his sister Marina V. Serrés.

The film is about the life of a White emigrant returning to Soviet Russia.

A woman commits her hard-drinking husband to a sanitarium that would drive any man to drink.

Hans von Trass is a high-ranking German diplomat. When a top-secret document is stolen, his fiancée Christa Varell strangely accuses herself of the theft in a letter. Von Trass entrusts master detective Stuart Webbs with the mysterious case - but is the man he contacted really Webbs?

43rd episode in the Buster Brown 2-reel comedy series. This time he enters the boxing ring.

A gentleman thief plans a jailbreak when one of his targets is unjustly accused of murder.

An investigator is asking Mrs. Gubbins about a William Foster, who was a friend of her stepson Jimmy. Both are listed as killed in action during the Great War. It is Armistice Day, 1918, and the war is over. Who should be strolling down the street but Jimmy Gubbins, Bill 'Jones' and another man who has lost his memory. They are ghosts as the official records list them as dead and not as escaped P.O.W's. Jimmy's mother is not happy to see that Jimmy is still living as she has been spending the death benefits, but she is happy to see Bill as there is a large reward for him. No one knows much about the third one, called 'Spoofy', except that he can steal anything at anytime and that gets everyone is trouble.

The story of the Udege tribe, lost for centuries and on the verge of extinction, the most dangerous footage of hunting for bears and wild boars, as well as local rituals.

Maria, a beautiful girl, baptized by Father Gavriil, joins gang leader Davelis and returns to her village to take revenge on the people who had treated her badly.

Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!

People of all nations come to America, sing a native song and go into a “melting pot”. This scene was later used in King of Jazz (1930).

A well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy who is sitting in a box seat near the stage. Soon the inebriated man himself begins to cause disruptions, with his overly emphatic opinions of the various acts.

Cliff presents his girl with a poodle at a party. His jealous rival plants bugs on both the dog and Cliff.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.

This film is about the humiliating work conditions and exploitation endured by many Latin American actors, filmmakers and writers in Hollywood.

An adventure tale about three men tasked with defending a fort in the Syrian desert against advancing French troops. Tensions between Lieutenant Brand and the two soldiers, Croff and Gestino, escalate when the young Frenchwoman Yvonne arrives at the barracks.

Two broke friends hatch a scheme to get money from a rich aunt.

Film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

Part of Aesop's Fables from Van Beuren Studios

A young woman, a prisoner who was set up to steal by her lover, is in jail. She would like to see her sweetheart. One night she succeeds in persuading the doctor of the prison who also is a woman, to be released. She finds the man, a waiter in an elegant hotel, behaving as a cynical Don Juan. He was preparing to rob the safe of the hotel and go away with his new lover, a dancer.

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

Originally named "The Clairvoyant" presenting the many talents of parapsychologist Elsbeth Günther-Geffers. First banned, later extensively reworked.

Battling Sisters (1929) is a bizarre, futuristic gender-bending semi-spoof of ‘The Big Parade, with men and women’s roles reversed.Offering the spectacle of Wallace Lupino, in drag, vamping the helpless house husband Lane!

Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer

A Secrets of Nature short film about a the cuckoo.

A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.

Van Beuren animated short film

An Austrian silent comedy crime film.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

A young, upstanding lumberjack heads to college, where he quickly becomes introduced to a world of hazing, pranks, and class camaraderie. Will his moral principles survive the transition?

While on a "slumming" excursion, debutante Bobbie Walsh (Viola Dana) falls in love with tenement-district doctor Thornton (Allan Simpson). Not wishing to scare the doctor off, Bobbie doesn't tell him that she's the wealthy daughter of a prominent senator. But when Dr. Thornton ends up in night court after punching out a pair of would-be mashers, Bobbie is forced to reveal her true identity. The expected resentments arise, leading to the inevitable reconciliation. Star Viola Dana's final film.

A Man Ray documentary short on bullfighting.

On the struggle of the Caucasian mountaineers against the tsarist autocracy.

In the Caucasus, among the picturesque mountains there is a guerrilla war between the Whites from Bicherakhov’s division and the Red Army soldiers. The Chechen girl Dzhalma finds an injured Ukrainian guy Mykola in a valley. She saves his life and helps him to recover. Young people fall in love with each other, and after the Bolshevik’s victory both of them travel to Ukraine. Dzhalma ends up in a traditional Ukrainian village.

A horse race determines a woman's romantic fate.

A silent comedy short feature produced in Brighton.

Jack Cooper has a taxi inspector on his heels, and later confuses the inspector's wife for a theater automaton. Each section is highlighted by a major set piece of a gag and they are well done.

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.

In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.

The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal code stipulating that after 20 years on the run, a penal colony escapee can regain his freedom if he evades capture by the police.