Cinematic Era: 1929 Vintage

A pair of youthful lovers are separated by war and misunderstanding.

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short, considered lost. Produced by Charles Mintz and George Winkler. Directed by Friz Freleng. Distributed by Universal Pictures. Released January 8, 1929. The first Oswald short with sound.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit goes to an Amateur Nite show, where he sees the "Hippy Hippos", "St. Louie Blues", and "Quacky Quacks". His reaction is usually opposite the other members of the audience, who force him to react the same way as them.

Fleischer Studios giving "Smiles" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment.

A marionette musical from Tony Sarg's show.

In this one, Oswald is wooing his girlfriend (who looks like a cat) on a canoe. Like Felix the Cat, Oswald sometimes uses his tail for something other than wagging, in this case, he uses it as an outboard motor to bring the boat to shore.

Late silent installment in the "Handy Andy" series starring comedian Andy Clyde.

Some Copenhagen street scenes followed by various unidentified rural scenes.

Dutch promotional film showing shots of cables being laid in a busy street. The film also shows the convenience that electricity brings to household chores, such as ironing and vacuuming. Many devices are filmed in close-up. In this film, Otto van Neijenhoff employs more of an avant-garde style than he typically does in his other films. Atmospheric images of trams and trains, with much use of dissolves, as well as evening and night shots in the illuminated city.

Some students in a boarding house have to face the reality of everyday life in pursuit of their goals. The life of one, Carlos, changes drastically when he falls in love with the hotel maid.

Harmonies de Paris, restored by the Cinémathèque Française in the 1990s, was shot entirely on panchromatic film and was meant to be a documentary tour of Paris in thirteen thematic chapters. The subject is a tourist group arriving in the French capital by airplane, which explains the many shots of monuments and other canonical places.

A new batch of immigrants arrives.

A vibrant ‘city symphony’ showing a day in the life of Milan, from factories to farmers’ markets, skyscrapers, nightclubs, and beyond, with sound effects of human voices and machines.

Years before "Reefer Madness" brought hysterical misunderstandings of marijuana to mainstream America, audiences were treated to "High on the Range," a silent short film from 1929. The story features Dave, a naive rancher who becomes a murderer after smoking less than a full joint.

La Possession is a 1929 French film directed by Léonce Perret.

A comedic team. The Ann seems to try and come across as a Mae West type. Jay plays the role of the straight partner.

The first talkie released in Japan by Mina Talkie

Early Egyptian Film.

Grace starts the film by singing 'That's My Baby.' The five band members do an instrumental, then Grace sings 'Glad Rag Doll.'

This Vitaphone short features the Kjerulf Mayfair Quintette in their only film performance. Their act is basically five women, three on a harp, one on a violin and another that does the singing. The songs performed are "Sextette," "Neapolitan Night" and "Lonely Little Bluebird".

Eddie Peabody and His College Chums play us a few songs.

A young artist in a Chelsea studio laments the absence of his beloved Fifi.

A triangular drama set in the factory region and wilderness of Lapland.

A woman chooses between a life of wealth gained through corruption and a poor, simple life with an honest man.

Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.

The experimental short Prater by Friedrich Kuplent can be considered as a pioneering work of Austrian avant-garde film and a city symphony. His film portrays Vienna through a day at the city's famous Prater fairground.

DeVry Cine-Tone short.

A fool, during his nap, dreams of meeting a farmer and being chased by settlers because of a supposed kidnapping. After waking up, dream and reality merge because the 'farmer' will be his new maid. (Cinemateca Brasileira)

The times of NEP in Ukraine. Yurko, a slacker and lazy boy, accuses his classmate Oleksiy of a crime he did not commit. Oleksa's friends expose the slander. Yurko is expelled from school.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

This silent picture (which was redone as a talkie in 1930) concerns the daughter of the head of a criminal gang, who falls in love with the son of her father's most bitter enemy.

A good-natured ostrich breeder gets into trouble through the fault of a family of wealthy foreigners who give him a hard time. Because of them, he loses his fortune, resumes it, goes through countless adventures, always followed like a shadow by his faithful servant.

The film starts off with Edith Murray joining the band for "Some of These Days" and right from this moment you know this thing isn't going to work. We then get a few instrumentals as the band members act silly as if they were trying to be comedians.

A bunch of niwits make a mishmash of a moving job.

This brash comedy team toured extensively in vaudeville, and even made a Victor 78 of much of the material contained in this short.

Jean Gourguet's 1928 49-minute silent feels like a French precursor to Siodmak's 1930 "Menschen am Sonntag". It shows us how Parisians of the 1920s spent their Sundays, by following the progress of four young people on their day off - a girl, her beau, and his two rivals. The film is at turns comic, wistful and romantic.

The Emperor of China hears a nightingale sing, and decides to capture her, yet he fails. So he tries at least to have her call imitated, yet there everybody at his court fails, so he offers a prize for success in this - the marriage with his daughter. Two Europeans hear of it - a Mr. Tri-Ergon (record label) and a Mr. Trichter (recording horn). Both try with their recording devices to cut a record of the Nightingale.

A silent, surreal short involving a man buying a pearl necklace. He meets a woman who also desires the necklace.

Adaptation of the eponymous play.

Partially lost.

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

The unveiling of the Napoleon Column, with a parade of representatives of sport and cultural societies, and people in national costume.

This early talkie Grantland Rice sports short spotlights the crystal clear waters of Florida and champion swimmers and divers, including future Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, doing their stuff to Tschakovski waltzes.

A simple story of a woman being courted by two beaux.

In the garden of a convent, Mme. Frances Alda enters, prays before a statue of the Virgin Mary, and sings "Ave Maria" from Otello (Verdi).